If your college was anything like mine , a day did n’t go by without some company giving out gratuitous samples in wacky car . The Red Bull elevator car even had its own parking space down the street from the dormitory . ( endeavor to resist the temptation when walk past a giant can of Red Bull before an early class is absolute torture . ) Here are seven examples of even weirder promotional vehicles .
1. The Zippo Car
build in 1947 for $ 25,000 , the Zippo Car was a Chrysler Saratoga with two gigantic hoy lark atomic number 10 flames . The Zippo Car was used for fairs , exposition and parade between 1948 and 1949 , but mysteriously disappeared sometime in the 1950 ’s when it was left at a Pittsburgh franchise for reconstruction and never come back . In 1996 , Zippo commission a replica of the original Zippo gondola , and in 1998 the 2nd Chrysler Saratoga — New Yorker was unveiled at the Zippo / Case Visitors Center .
2. Chock Full o' Nuts Truck
The Chock Full o ' Nuts novelty motortruck first appeared publicly in the late thirties shortly after the coffee company spring up in New York City . The vehicle was designed to resemble a comfortable cabin with a screened in porch — just the sort of place where you ’d want to bask your dawning java . The Chock Full o ' Nuts brand has been owned by dessert queen Sara Lee since the twelvemonth 2000 . prototype viaJAMD .
3. The Children’s Shoemaker Car
This shoe may look a piffling like something out of a nursery rhyme , but it is actually a promotional vehicle created for Daniel Neal , The Children ’s Shoemaker , a business that rise in 1837 in London . The horseshoe was built on a 1921 Ford Model T with coachwork done by Riverside Motor Works . Presumably the message on the steering wheel is a brand of shoe .
4. Oscar Mayer Weinermobile
make up in 1936 by Carl G. Mayer ( nephew of namesake Oscar ) , the Weinermobile has evolved over the years and the massive red-hot dog can currently be check atop many different vehicle . gasoline rationing hold the promotional car off the road during World War II , but in the fifties , Oscar Mayer and the Gerstenslager Company created several Modern vehicle using Dodge and Jeep form . These fomite were driven by " Little Oscar" who would frequent festivals and parades as well as visiting school and children ’s hospitals . In 1988 , Oscar Mayer launched its Hotdogger program , where late college graduates were lease to ram the Wienermobile through various part of the nation and abroad . There are presently six Wienermobiles in being .
5. The Voxmobile
In 1967 , Warren Hampton of the musical equipment manufacturer Vox approached renowned cable car customizer George Barris to build up a Voxmobile guitar auto . His approximation was to invent a custom two-seater that would function both as a car and as a mobile amplifier , design to be used for promotional purposes . The Voxmobile , released in 1968 , boast a Vox guitar silhouette that serves as a functioning amp capable of endorse up to 32 guitars as well as featuring a working Vox organ in the rearward pack of cards . In all , there are two main driveway speaker unit mounted atop the intake manifold , five 12 - in speakers , one 18 - column inch bass speaker and four tweeter . The entire fomite is deserving $ 30,000 and is drivable .
6. The Spammobile
This giant dispirited tramcar drives all over the country give out complimentary samples of delicious Spam products . at bottom , the vehicle only seat two rider to accommodate good deal quantity of canned ham and the electrical griddle necessary for cooking Spamburgers . The permit plate of the Spammobile reads " Spam37,“ the bit 37 being a character to 1937 , the year Spam was cook up .
7. The Peepster
Much like the Spammobile , Just Born , the company responsible for marshmallow Peeps as well as Mike and Ikes and Peanut Chews , has a large bus that tours the country . However , the Bethlehem , Pa - base confect company also has a smaller promotional vehicle — the Peepster . A shiny yellow Volkswagen Beetle with a five - foot grandiloquent sensationalistic marshmallow bird on top , the car can often be seen cruise around the tri - state domain .
