Great gourd grabs the record...

and squashes previous enormous squash: Giant Pumpkin Breaks Record. The subject of the linked article, grown in Ohio, attained 1,725 pounds at the time of harvest.

No, none of the great pumpkins shown above (click to enlarge) come close to the record holder, but these babies are grown by my former neighbor just down the lane, and each weigh in at about 900 pounds. That's the pumpkin-mobile, a cherry-condition 1974 VW Super Beetle that my late wife inherited from her father, for scale.