<VV> and the trunk as a cooler

[gswiatowy at rochester.rr.com]

Been there done that.
used a quarter keg.
Back then our taste was Genesee Cream Ale.


No spigot on the dash, but open the trunk and screw in the tap.
I would get the beer and ice at Bernardi's store and drive to the party.
I was pretty popular.
Also did it with cases of bottled beer and ice.
Also did it with my 66 Dodge Coronet.
They had a convenient spare tire well in that trunk.

Gary Swiatowy

>> From: Tom Berg <thesuperscribe at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Getting in the trunk, and the trunk as a cooler
>> 
> OK,?it's time to get out of the trunk and put something in there. 
> 
> Back in the day, I commuted to Marquette U in Milwaukee?in my?new '62 Monza 
> coupe, and as part of the extracurriculum?I got to really like beer. As I 
> dropped a sandbag into?the trunk's?bottom?to improve steering stability at 
> highway speeds (anyone else do that?), I eyeballed the trunk's all-steel 
> structure and decided that it would probably hold water -- ice water -- which 
> would make it a good cooler.
> 
> One of the things you learn in college is how to tap a keg of beer (OK, you can 
> learn that elsewhere, but that's where I did), and it occurred?to me that a pony 
> or maybe even a half-barrel would sit right on the truck's bottom and there'd be 
> enough vertical room for the tap. Then flood the trunk with ice water and off 
> we'd go to the picnic. I could just see my friends gathered 'round, puttin' 'em 
> down.
> 
> Say, why not run the plastic line right through the dashboard into the 
> front-seat area? Wouldn't the spiggot look neat mounted on the dash in there? 
> But that Logic course I took as a freshman, or maybe just common sense, took 
> hold: Beer got me blitzed; I'd be drinking a lot of beer with that spiggot so 
> conveniently placed; a blitzed brain at first enhances, then degrades driving 
> ability; a policeman might reach the same conclusion if he saw it; ergo, maybe 
> the spiggot wasn't such a good idea. 
> 
> 
> So I never installed the spiggot on the dash, or equipped the truck with a keg, 
> or used it as a cooler. Anyone else ever try it, though?
> 
> --Tom Berg