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WTF?! #3: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

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"Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener,
That is what I truly want to be,
'Cause if I were and Oscar Mayer Wiener,
Everyone would be in love with me."

Some cars don't belong to the WTF?! category because they are hideously ugly - sometimes they belong in WTF?! because they are simply fantastic. Like the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, a promotional tool for the Oscar Mayer company, first developed in 1936. Since then, there have been multiple Wienermobiles, and currently there are still six in existence, including one based on the new Mini Cooper (just in case Mini owners needed to look even more like a giant certain part of the anatomy). But honestly, I defy anyone to find me someone who honestly does not want to drive in a giant hot dog.

Anyway, if you do happen to be one of those unfairly lucky people who get to drive these things all around the United States for a job, you are referred to as a "hotdogger". Hotdoggers actually just go around and hand out "Wienerwhistles" to the public, as a means of further promotion, and are tiny replicas of the Wienermobile. So you can blow on a sausage any time you feel like it. Kids, ask mum or dad about that one.

But the Wienermobile is an awesome piece of work. It actually is a huge fiberglass hotdog, resting on a big Chevrolet chassis with a 6.0 litre V8 General Motors engine. It also sports a 122 litre fuel tank (and you thought your Landcruiser was big). The entire interior is coloured in hot dog and mustard colours, and the dashboard is, you guessed it, shaped like a hot dog. Honestly, it is the biggest (it is 11 metres long and more than 3 metres tall) piece of PR stupidity to grace this planet, but that is why it is so unbelievably fantastic. As one hotdogger said: "We go to car shows and some of the owners get jealous ‘cause we get more attention than the cars."

And rightly so.

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Anonymous said...
November 28, 2008 at 8:27 PM  

I bet girls would love riding a giant sausage all day.

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