Did you know that the Kong dog toy started out as part of a hard rubber rear suspension bump stop for a Volkswagen Bus?
Joe Markham invented the Kong in the mid-1970s when he tried to distract his German Shepherd, Fritz, from chewing rocks and threw him some left over rubber parts from a VW bus he was working on.
The picture at top is not a Kong -- it's a rear bump stop from a 1964-1979 VW Bus. They can be ordered from a car parts store for $6.99, but most folks are picking up their expensive rubber Kongs at their local pet stores or online.”
