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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