Culture|Garage

via Lafayette Journal & Courier

Like pay for a truck with $25,000 worth of change. That’s right, Paul Brant, a 70 year old Chrysler employee, saved up coins over the past 13 years with the intention of buying a truck. He purchased the 1/2 ton Dodge Ram with 1/2 a ton of coins. He said that he used the vending machines frequently (union workers get too many breaks) at the Chrysler plant and that is how he accumulated all of the change. Apparently, he also just saved them up at home, he didn’t put them into a savings account or a CD, etc. To hell with compounding interest! It also took him over half a day to load up all of the coins to take them to the dealership. Paul then backed the Dodge into seven vehicles trying to do a three point turn.

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