weener mobile- horn honk

Here is an 8.5 pack of hotdogs fer ya'll

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one was in town last weekend, I think the gal said there were nine different models through the years? and there are four of the current model driving around the country right now, we took one of the grandkids up to see it and took a few pictures. looked like a fun job..

here's the only picture I have at work,

pay no attention to the big dork in front of the giant wiener

 

There are seven Wienermobiles in existence currently, with each assigned a part of the country. The hotdogger position of driving the Wienermobile is an open position to U.S. citzens and the duration of the job lasts for one full year: from the first of June until the following first of June. Every March at Kraft and Oscar Mayer headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin there are final round interviews held for the hotdogger position. Each vehicle holds two hotdoggers, and twelve people are chosen from a final pool of 30 candidates brought to Oscar Mayer headquarters. The 30 candidates are screened across the country from over an average of 2000 applicants. Both current hotdoggers and Oscar Mayer recruiters visit college campuses across the country in search of the next round of hotdoggers. Only college seniors who are about to graduate are eligible for applying to this hotdogger position. Currently there are about 500 hotdogger alumni.

 

I wrote a whole feature on the history of the Wienermobile recently. Read it, learn it, love it.

http://www.examiner.com/x-10974-Kan...-the-worlds-hottest-car-shaped-like-a-hot-dog

They were actually very helpful when I put this together. They sent all kinds of press releases and pictures.

 

I heard that this model was inspired from a "Bell 47" helicopter and the prototype shared the front bubble from the Bell.

If they didn't... I'd like to know who would've blown that bubble!

 

Could be. The stuff they sent just said it was built on a Jeep chassis.

 

Is it my imagination, or did the wiener get larger as the years went on?
That is, until the little Mini version came out.

 

Very possible... the Bell 47G came out in 53 and that model of Wiener was prototyped in 57ish by Brooks Stevens who built it on a Willies Jeep chassis.

 

wieners

 

Sooooooo, do Ace and Gary stop by often Kirk? Uhhhhhh, not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

Just another wiener picture....

 

I saw that Mini Coper version a couple of months ago but thought I dreamed it. I feel better knowing it's real.

 

The inlaws are the Meyer family....no relation....but my wife has a strange attraction to the Weinermobile. Should I be worried?

 

i'd paint it black w/ monster flames all over it - you know? grilled dogs are best

 

Nuts to go with yer wiener?

 

The original Little Oscar was Meinhardt Raabe who portrayed the Coroner in, and is currently the longest-surviving Munchkin from, The Wizard of Oz.

 

ok I'll share a secret.. i have oscar mayer boxer shorts.. chicks allways get a kick outa that lol

 

Churchy that is some funny stuff

 

Holy Cow Man! That thing looks brand new! I bet it has a wave in it for nukin' dawgs!

 

WICKED HUFFER & ZOOMIES! The Planters wagon rules!

 

you ever notice that the end of a oscar meyer wiener looks like a cat's butt ?
ran over my cat too.

 

So does this mean Denise keeps pictures of Weeners on her computer?

 

ouch

 

Saw my first Weiner Mobile when I was in fifth grade, about 1956. Got a whistle. You could tape em your fan belt and they would whistle for a while.

 

My parents were on a trip with their 40 and came across a weinermobile pulled to the side on a mountain pass with overheated brakes. Dad stops to help and ends up getting to drive it. How cool is that! Mom has a pic somewhere..

 

The wiener mobile and the batmobile, two of my favorite cars

 

There is one at the Henry Ford Museum, parked right next to the chair Abe Lincoln was shot in. Seems disrespectful to me.

 

I went to a car show in Phoenix AZ last year & saw this one at my friend's hotel. It's the only picture i still know of, soz.

 

One of the wienermobiles is here in Louisville right now, saw it yesterday.