Under The Influence: Pop Top Can Cars are tin cans on wheels
Stroh's Pop Top Can Cars - Click above for high-res image gallery
Driving with a beer in hand is just bad form. But driving a beer? Well, that's just cantastic!
Our colleagues at Hemmings Auto Blogs turned up a keg's worth of photos and information about these Beetle-based beermobiles from the 1980s. A Florida company called Automotive Innovations owned by Ron Wharton created the cars for the Stroh Brewery Company for promotional use, with one leading a daily parade at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn.
The builder was granted an exemption from federal safety standards and were limited to building only 300 of the fiberglass-bodied cars a year. Each one was given a new title as a Pop Top Can Car.
Check out our gallery below, then click on over to Hemmings for many more photos of the cars, including orange-juice, motor oil and Mountain Dew themed models.
Gallery: Stroh's Pop Top Can Cars
[Source: Hemmings Auto Blogs]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Geekengineer 8:54PM (9/17/2009)
I want a crazy red and yellow pantsuit, just like in pic #6. Those are some klassy duds.
Oh, and Stroh's is deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesgusting.
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Jacob 4:19AM (9/18/2009)
If I flip the top, do I get a frosty beverage?
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heath pierce 10:43PM (9/17/2009)
just paint it up like a redbull can and drive for money
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mk15 9:48AM (9/18/2009)
The first words that came to mine was "fart can", the term I use for those ricey noisy exhaust mufflers.... sorry. But I could totally see Red Bull ordering a few for marketing.
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Farris 12:14PM (9/18/2009)
If that's based on a Beetle, what's with the exhaust pipes coming out in front of the doors?
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Tense 7:02PM (9/18/2009)
I grew up in Florida and in the Keys there is one of these that has been there since I was a kid. At least 20 years. But, it was painted as a Bud can.
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