Davy Jones as Racecar Driver February 29, 2012, 4:49 pm The death on Wednesday of Davy Jones, the singer of the Monkees, prompted the team at Wheels to recollect a particular episode of the television show on which Mr. Jones found fame with American audiences. Racing in the Monkeemobile, Mr. Jones's character battles the nefarious Baron von Klutz, who deploys his arsenal of trickery from the cockpit of a Shelby Cobra Daytona. But in the prevailing spirit of the Monkees, Davy gets the checkered flag, and the girl, in the end.