keiser31 Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 Up the street at the market....got a free whistle.... 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryB Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 No free hot dog? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted September 27 Author Share Posted September 27 14 minutes ago, TerryB said: No free hot dog? No, but got a coupon in case I wanted to purchase any. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Anyone know what chassis the current Wienermobile is based on? Wheels look kinda truckish but bodywork is kinda swoopy like an E-type... DK if they'd send the Wienermobile down here to the land of the red hot dog!😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted September 27 Author Share Posted September 27 13 minutes ago, rocketraider said: Anyone know what chassis the current Wienermobile is based on? Wheels look kinda truckish but bodywork is kinda swoopy like an E-type... DK if they'd send the Wienermobile down here to the land of the red hot dog!😄 Some specifications.... 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7th Son Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 To keep this post from falling victim to a grim moderator, I'm adding an antique to the thread. This was the first Weinermobile: 1936. Are those Mopar or Chevy artillery wheels? 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike "Hubbie" Stearns Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Last I knew, it’s on a GM chassis. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod P Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 I didn't know they were were still around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 I don't know how many are "still around"? But it was in the news a week or two ago, one of them was in a rollover crash on I think a Midwest freeway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Whoe doesnt love the wiener mobile? I passed one travelling on the PA turnpike a few years ago. Thats about as close as I could get. Something like this one would think it would make a presence at some prestigious car event, something like.................HERSHEY! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 4 minutes ago, TAKerry said: Whoe doesnt love the wiener mobile? I sure do! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK Sr. Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 The LL Bean Boot was in Mechanicsburg PA last Saturday. They opened a new store here. I am told they have just two of them. It was the first I ever saw one. ONE OF A PAIR? Karl 9 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee H Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 7 hours ago, 7th Son said: To keep this post from falling victim to a grim moderator, I'm adding an antique to the thread. This was the first Weinermobile: 1936. Are those Mopar or Chevy artillery wheels? The “German wiener” part was probably quietly dropped after the invasion of Poland. Maybe earlier. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Back in the 1970s there was a Weinermobile usually seen ion the Mineola, NY area on long island in Nassau County. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip roitman Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 It was at the Dream Ride and Dream Cruise for the Special Olympics at the Farmington Ct. Polo Grounds the weekend of August 24th. for Special Olympians from around the world. We raised $7 million over the weekend!! P.S. I got a whistle for my Grandson also 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LARRYCAROL Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Hershey 2021😎 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee H Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 OK, fellow Gearheads…what do these two vehicles have in common? …and no, it’s not something like internal combustion, four wheels, two headlights, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKerry Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 2 hours ago, KRK Sr. said: The LL Bean Boot was in Mechanicsburg PA last Saturday. They opened a new store here. I am told they have just two of them. It was the first I ever saw one. ONE OF A PAIR? Karl Thats almost as cool as a giant Hot Dog! I wonder if the other one is R hand drive? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 (edited) I am so old I once received a Weiner whistle from Little Oscar hisseff. About 1955 or so. And a few years ago I did see a new one on a four lane road I was passing over. Edited September 27 by plymouthcranbrook (see edit history) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7th Son Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 This one looks like more fun... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidinCA Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Do any vintage Weinermobiles exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACK M Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 2 hours ago, Lee H said: OK, fellow Gearheads…what do these two vehicles have in common? …and no, it’s not something like internal combustion, four wheels, two headlights, etc. Are they built on the same chassis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee H Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 2 hours ago, JACK M said: Are they built on the same chassis? No. The Excalibur and the 1958 Wienermobile were both designed by Brooks Stevens. Which seems appropriate to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 7 hours ago, DavidinCA said: Do any vintage Weinermobiles exist? I recall seeing one at one of the Baret Jackson Pheonix auctions they were pumping one up as one their Saturday night primetime vehicles, had to be well over 20 years ago. Isn't their one at the AACA Museum in Hershey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KURTRUK Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 (edited) The 1952 model is at the Henry Ford Museum. The 1995 models were built in Fresno. They had problems fitting the huge curved windshields (made in Norway, I think) into the fibreglass body openings. The had some huge gaps between the glass and body. I was able to provide them with a molding wide enough to bridge the gaps. No free hotdogs for me, either. I even knew one of the executives at the body builder. Edited September 29 by KURTRUK (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFeeney Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 I think If I saw the Weinermobile I would stay inside the rest of the day as I would take it as a omen of forth coming "Doom". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Kingsley Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 Truly, my favorite vehicle ever. I've seen it 4 times, first in 1997. There is a Weinermobile museum in either Wisconsin or Minnesota. I wasn't able to visit it when I went to both of those states in 2022 so I'm not sure where exactly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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