Marika Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Man Pays for New Truck With Loose Change Paul Brant considers himself a penny pincher, but his savings in quarters and dollar coins really paid off. Brant, 70, used more than $25,000 in change to help buy a new Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday — 13 years after buying another truck with spare change. "(The old truck) didn't have four-wheel drive, and living in the country, I figured I better get a new one to help get me through the snow," he said. Brant said he was raised to be thrifty. His father always paid in cash and saved up loose change to take vacations. Brant has been storing his change for years, and estimated he had about $26,000 in coins for Friday's purchase. In 1994, he bought a Dodge pickup and a Dodge Neon using about $36,000 in quarters. "As long as you don't put your hands back in the till, it really adds up," he said. Brant stored his change in coffee cans, water jugs and piggy banks over the years, and was escorted by sheriff's deputies as he brought the rolled coins to the dealership. A Mike Raisor Chrysler Dodge and Jeep employee who sold Brant the truck said the dealership called in an armored car to count and handle the coins. "No bank wants to take them," Keith Gephart said. © Copyright 2007 CSC Holdings, Inc. If you really want to make people safe drivers again then simply remove all the safety features from cars. No more seat belts, ABS brakes, traction control, air bags or stability control. No more anything. You'll see how quickly people will slow down and once again learn to drive like "normal" humans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenJ Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 That's interesting. I've lately taken to emptying my varied buckets of coin into that machine at the local supermarket. They take an 8.1% commission fee on the exchange. In my younger years, when I lived at home with my parents, I could bribe a younger sibling to wrap my coins for the price of a Snickers bar. A 16 ounce container filled with pennies, nickles and dimes nets about $26.00 these days. I've a few filled with quarters, but I haven't turned them in yet. I expect they'll net considerably more. Just the same, I don't see a car in there. Maybe a brake job and a bacon cheeseburger. Regards, Warren There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. - Ludwig von Mises Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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