I rand across this old ad for a beer bar installed in your car. Ever seen one? I'm betting the authorities would frown upon one of these nowadays.
I actually worked with a guy that prepared his car for a family road trip that way. He used some of that 1/8" I.D. clear fish tank hose into a couple of petcocks in the glove box. It used manifold vacuum to draw beverages into these Tupperware type plastic glasses with snap on lids. A hose in to fill and another nipple/hose up top of the lid connected to manifold vacuum. The only trick was to close the petcock before the fluid reached the top of the glass and the vac nipple at the top. One petcock served hot beverage from a container in the trunk that routed to a copper coil wrapped around the exhaust manifold and the other petcock was served by a cooler of iced beverage, also in the trunk. The co-pilot/wife was the bartender/server. I recall he was all in with the whole, crude system for $15. He claimed it saved him hours on the road. Don't ask me what he did for potty breaks. I never wanted to know about that.
In Texas, back in the days before car a/c, a beer was almost mandatory to survive any trip over 45 minutes so there were no "open container" laws. Fast forward to today and the tradition lives on. Most combo gas station/quick sacks sell iced beer by the can. You buy a can.... they hand you a can sized paper sack..... the police go wink-wink and only enforce any open container statutes if there is additional stupidity.
A local guy that was restoring his Dads' Model A Sedan asked me what those copper tanks were doing under the windows on either side of the car. They had a common outlet at the rear but no why to fill them. They were covered with upholstery, been there all those years and nobody knew it. A year into his restoration and he came back to tell me that the car was bought around The Plains, Virginia and that area was notorious for illegal stills. As a dealer installed option you could get a pair of these tanks and haul hooch into D.C. - this was before Uber - for all the 'speakeasies' that served the lawmakers. His dad bought the sedan just as prohibition was repealed, the tank were installed but an inlet was never added, they just covered them up. They are still in the car.
Being raised in Texas, I offer additional validation to above beer comment. Not too many years before laws were changed, a "can wrapper" came out. It was marketed under the name of Fool Um'. It was a thin plastic sheet which stuck to a cold moist can. Originally, they had a flowing red and white coloring and had Caco Cola printed on them. Bet I still have one or two here with the "Hook'em Hippies" bumper stickers. (Texas Longhorns reference) Should I mention the drive-in margarita restaurants with to go trays that held 10?
Yes Sir! The drive up margarita/frozen daiquiri windows are alive and well. I forgot about those. Your choice of styrofoam cup size..... or gallon jugs, bring your own cups. "How hot is it today?" "I don't care. I've got my margarita cup."
Back in the late 60s I installed a kit in my car that used engine vacuum to pull hot or cold drinks into a plastic cup inserted into the dispenser. Never used it for alcohol and didn't work worth a damn for soda, the vacuum pulled all the carbonation out. Seemed cool at the time.
When we were kids and "had to go" my dad would say, "do it in your boot and throw it out the window!". My mom would then say something to my dad I won't repeat.
Is there an additional accessory to serve brats from the glove box? Just saying from a guy how had many a cold one at the Pole Cat's Roost in Eau Galle.
just had this installed in my 2002 silverado the other day. but now Hagerty wont insure my old cars lol
I never used to use a bag to hide a beer. My "logic" was that the bag was a dead give away. No one drinks a canned soda from a paper bag. Yea..... drunk logic at it's best.
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