Man buys Chevy with small change

JayZ · 08-15-2008, 01:34 PM

An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque.

James Jones, 70, produced 16 coffee cans full of coins to buy his new Chevrolet Silverado in Cincinnati and staff spent 90 minutes counting it.

But his coin hoard only covered half of the $16,000 (£8,500) price tag.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7559881.stm

iv always wanted to do something like that but i dont dare

peter_anderson · 08-15-2008, 01:38 PM

Wow.

That must of been heavy - all those coins.

archgames · 08-15-2008, 01:40 PM

Lol just imagine he buying a house for £200,000 all in coins

JayZ · 08-15-2008, 02:39 PM

lol i was thinking that when i posted the topic

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Originally Posted by archgames

Lol just imagine he buying a house for £200,000 all in coins

JanArve · 08-16-2008, 12:13 PM

he can be lucky he didn't live in Norway, the car would have cost 4 times as much!

Fahd · 08-16-2008, 01:40 PM

I've paid a $2 toll all in pennies and I thought that was a lot!

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