There have been car failed car mavericks but there is only one that was a woman born a man. That's enough for a story right there, but there's more. The Lady & The Dale attempts to bring as much of the backstory and quite unusual facts surrounding Elizabeth Carmichael to light. It's a humdinger. The story itself is interesting enough, even with irritating animated segments filling in for whatever it fill-ins for. Sometimes you just wish Carmichael would have been shut-down long before all of this transpired. But, you may also root for her vision a three-wheeled gas-sipping automobile may have found a market the Big Three would never pursue. Of interest, at least to me, Tucker Carlson's adopted father broke the story which, at the time, gave him needed credibility as an apparently "iffy" story he wrote for Look magazine led to the publications demise due to a large settlement and Look's declining popularity. So oddball is this story it does stun and entertain...sadly there was more than just monetary loss.