![]() ![]() Choose from a variety of Zippo Lighter images and customize a handful of selected lighters as well. The windproof flame sways as you move your Android device and reacts when you try to blow it out. The Virtual Zippo Lighter opens with a flick of your wrist and lights with a turn of your thumb. Now Android users can also rock out at a concert and whip out their virtual Zippos rather than the real deal. Zippo launched today the free Virtual Zippo Lighter App on the Android market. ![]() Zippo App launches on Android Market The Zippo app for the iPhone has received over 14 million downloads since its 2008 debut and today it goes live for Android phones.Īpr 13 2011, 2:24pm CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr You can read the full history of the 1947 Zippo Car here. While the original car could not be found and restored, in 1998 Zippo did reproduce the 1947 Zippo Car which can still be found at events today. Zippo even went so far as running advertisements in Pittsburgh (its last known location) to try to track down the lost Zippomobile. In 1982 the company launched a search to find the car for the company’s 50th anniversary. ![]() Eventually business at Zippo was so good - and management so preoccupied - that the Zippo Car fell out of favor, was abandoned and subsequently lost. ![]() It was this new found popularity that propelled Blaisdell in 1947 to convert a Chrysler Saratoga into the Zippomobile.Īfter its introduction in the late 1940s, the Zippo Car went far and wide on a promotional tour visiting every state in the Union. Government commissioned Zippo’s entire production to be distributed to GIs, which had the benefit of introducing the company and its windproof lighters to hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Americans, thereby making Zippo a household name. Blaisdell founded the Zippo Manufacturing Company in the town of Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1932, naming the company “Zippo” as a more modern sounding alternative to the word zipper. Blaisdell was fond of productmobiles like the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile and Life Savers Pep-O-Mint car. ![]()
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