Hamm

Hamm is a sly piggy bank who lives with other toy cars in Andy's Garage. He appears in the film Toy Car Story within the Cars universe, and is seen on the Drive-In screen in Cars while the residents of Radiator Springs are viewing the movie. According to the Car Finder Game, Hamm is a Porkster Baconbit, made out of pink ceramic armor. As a piggy bank, he has ears, nostrils, and a swirly tail, as well as an open coin slot and wooden cork above and below him.
==History==
===Cars===
In Cars, Hamm appears during the epilogue sequence that accompanies the start of the film's end credits. His film Toy Car Story is among three differents movies for which the Radiator Springs residents attend nighttime showings at the Drive-In Theatre. On-screen, Hamm is seen alerting his friends of incoming birthday guests. The performance impresses Mack, who praises the talents of Hamm's voice actor.
Hamm and the overall Toy Car Story movie are spoofs of the real-life Pixar film Toy Story, which features a toy piggy bank by the same name – The Cars clip and dialogue parody the respective scene where Hamm alerts the anxious toys in Andy's room of his birthday party guests' arrival. Both versions of Hamm are voiced by John Ratzenberger, with Mack's comment referencing how he himself also is.
===Cars comics===
Hamm makes an appearance in the Route 66 Dash mini-series published by Boom! Studios. In the comic, Mack has a nightmare where he and Gray are abducted by aliens. When he is brought into their mothership, he finds Hamm, Yeti, P.T. Flea, and a small car resembling Cliff Clavin, who appear to have shared the same fate. The UFOs circle Mack and welcome him to their "experiment," before Mack awakens, terrified.
==Official profiles==
===Car Finder Game===
The same bio and information appear in the 2011 and 2017 editions of Meet the Cars, with the exception of "Centercut" in his name.
===Pixarpedia===
Name 	Bio 	Image
Hamm Car	"Hamm Car is a ceramic piggy bank on wheels. A character from the movie Toy Car Story, when Hamm's full of money he certainly brings home the bacon."	
==List of appearances==
Title 	Year	Notes
Cars 	2006	
Car Finder Game 	2007	Identified as Hamm Centercut
The World of Cars Sticker Album	2008	Identified as Hamm Centercut
Route 66 Dash 	2009	
Pixarpedia 	2009	Identified as Hamm Car
Meet the Cars (2nd Edition) 	2011	
Meet the Cars (3rd Edition) 	2017	
==Gallery==
Hammcars1.jpg|Hamm in Toy Car Story, as seen in Cars
File:Hammmattel.jpg|Diecast
==Names in other languages==
*Japanese: ハム
*Russian: Хэмм (transcription: Hamm)
==Trivia==
*Hamm's name and make in the Car Finder Game are puns related to the food obtained from pigs in real life: "Pork" and "Bacon" refer to the raw and cured meat, while "Centercut" alludes to a method of cutting steak.
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