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Driving with a beer in hand is just bad form. But driving a beer?

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Well, that’s just cantastic! A Florida company called Automotive Innovations owned by Ron Wharton created the cars for the Stroh Brewery Company for promotional use, with one leading a daily parade at the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn. The builder was granted an exemption from federal safety standards and were limited to building only 300 of the fiberglassbodied cars a year. Each one was given a new title as a Pop Top Can Car.

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Last words before crash

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The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had covertly funded a project with the US auto makers for the past five years, whereby the auto makers were installing black boxes in four-wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 47 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, “Oh, Shit!” Only the states of South Carolina, West Virginia and Arkansas were…

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