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Hemmings Motor News Blog

Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Beer Can Cars

Posted September 24, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

Last year, I shared a pic of a poster of Alex the Dog sitting in a Stroh's beer can-shaped hot rod. It was pure, unadultered awesomeness. The only thing missing was info about the promo car itself.

Fortunately, Ron Wharton of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, stepped in recently to let us know that not only did he design and build the car, his business, Automotive Innovations, briefly offered a run of such can-shaped cars in the early 1980s. Though based on VW mechanicals, they weren't kit cars; in fact, Ron said he fought hard to get a manufacturer's license to produce the cars.

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