Those are some great ones. I’ll add Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Robert McCammon, Christopher Bunch & Allan Cole, Philip Jose Farmer, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Stephen R Donaldson, Alan Dean Foster and Timothy Zahn.
The car was made by a sixties turn-key/kit car maker from California, called Kellison. By all accounts, they built solid cars. This one strikes me as something Bizzarrini would have built, except for the Chevy engine, anyway.
Maybe the monkey was the ringleader. Maybe this is how Planet of the Apes really starts. The monkeys are trying to take us out with Fentanyl and Monkeypox.