Wienermobile in 1:48

There are still a number of Wienermobiles in daily use.

http://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile

From that page: In fact there are six WIENERMOBILE vehicles on the road right now.

Mine rides the rails from time to time.

A friend of one of our train club members scratch built one using a plastic shell and a Lionel Handcart power unit.  Ran good - but needs some additional weight - tended to bounce a lot.

jay jay posted:

I believe Little Oscar is no longer with us, sadly.

 

 

 

 

I think there are several of these around. On occasion one gets wrecked and it is reported that "the" one and only was destroyed. 

It better not get to close to Jurassic Park, just in case a rapter gets out!.

I wonder if they sent them busted up ones to the scrape yard, I would love to buy one and turn it into a Italian sausage version and take it to York, I bet you can pack a lot of trains into one of them. 

Gunrunner's regularly steals the show anytime it's on the rails!

- Greg

I have one sitting on my layout that I planned to power but haven't yet. Someday !!

The original vehicle with Little Oscar. I saw them at a neighborhood parade back in the 50's. It was probably the first time I had seen a celebrity. I was very impressed.

5-8 years ago there was one in this area of western Pa. where I live. At noon I saw it parked at a local restaurant so I took a few pictures. They are somewhere in my digital archives. Evidently the driver didn't eat hot dogs for lunch !!  I was going to motorize the one I have but couldn't bring myself to cut it. I have set it on a flat car and ran it around the layout.

The banks are less than $10 on eBay, so I didn't feel bad about cutting one up.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

The banks are less than $10 on eBay, so I didn't feel bad about cutting one up.

I  the early 1980's they were free with three hot dog labels......I got 5 of them .......lots of hot dogs!!! They are 1/25 scale.......seen 1/64 versions....but yet to see a 1/43-48 scale.

Since I worked for Kraft Foods for almost 27 years, Oscar Mayer is part of Kraft. We had one of the mobiles come to a NY/NJ region picnic many years ago and have a picture of my 2 kids with me in front of it.

The fleet makes regular stops around the country. Was pretty cool to sit in the driver seat back then when it came to our region picnic.

Hot wheels made these cars and have many of them.

The true 1:48 scale would probably be too small to fit all the stuff to do command and sound, it would be not much larger than the Lionel Early Era Inspection Car, I doubt I'd want to try to fit the stuff into that one.

They should just mount one on the chassis of one of these, and let it go at that.