[CLOSED] October 2nd, Name Your Car Day

Oh man I wish I knew you 25 years ago. I had a 67 cutless convertable project that had a bad frame and bought a chevelle frame that would fit off my high school shop teacher and flipped The Wole deal to someone for $600 I had $200 in all it but had several other car projects including my 63 corvair spyder and my 85 Chevy 4x4 that were both on the road and driving at the time

 

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Here’s mine 69 camaro z28 I love these cars and hope to have and restore a first gen camaro. As to coins 69 was the last year of silver in business strikes

 

Okay I will play.

First I will show my baby. A 1988 Chevy Corvette. I inherited her from my father. When he got her he always told me jokingly that I could drive it on the day that he dies and not before. How true this turned out to be. The day my dad died my mother handed me the keys to the Vette and said "Its yours now". It took me 8 months before I could go into the garage and start her up. Now my wife and I enjoy her on good weather weekends. Now my son will have to wait until I pass to drive her.

As for my most favorite of Classic cars. There are soooo many I would love to have, but the Austin Healy 3000 1959-1967 has got to be on the top of the list. A beautiful British sports car with some gorgeous curves. I know they aren't the most reliable but hey what original classic car is nowadays

AS for a numismatic fact for 1959. Well 1959 was the 50th anniversary of the Lincoln cent and was the first year of the Lincoln Memorial Cent. Here is a RPM from that year. This one kinda slaps you in the face and was the only reason my bad eyes could see it when searching a roll of Lincoln cents.

Thanks for the contest. Love all the cars. Coins and cars my 2 favorite subjects.

 

Mistake in that last post. Midnight Tuesday night is the deadline for entries. Somebody needs to go to calendar reading school!

 

My car, well van is the 1972 Ford E200 Econoline Van or aka teh scooby-doo Mystery Machine. My 5 year old sons pick actually and in 1972 the infamous 1972 Double Die Obverse was found!

 

My thoughts exactly!

 

Well played, sir!!

 

I know i missed the deadline and that's ok, I just wanted to post the old photo of my first car, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala, known as "La Bamba". This photo was taken in 1978 and I paid a whole $435 for this car. Yeah, I know, it's not very shiny, but it's my favorite car of all time.


Just throwing this in for good measure.


Fast forward 40 years and this is the car parked in the garage. It doesn't have a name, though...


And this car was definitely not $435!

 

No!! I misread the calendar. Entries are accepted until midnight tonight!

 

Haha i figured if i had my 5 year old son pick a car it might be something similar to what the judge is into as well lol. Anything/Anytime i win it all goes into a collection thats going to my son when hes alil older anyways.

 

Possibly might have ruined a nice pair of pants too...

 

I really liked this car and really wanted either one like it or an MG TC. I'll name this one No. 6 (any idea why?). 1966 Lotus Super Seven.



Oh, in 1966 the United States finished making the 1964 Kennedy half-dollars (whew were those dies tired).

 

Didn’t Jim Clark wear the number 6 on his Indy Lotus?

 

Here is my 1962 Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier 9 passenger van. "Blue" is my 17th Corvair over the last 30 years, and I've had her for 8 years. Powered by a 164 cubic inch horizontally opposed air cooled 6 cylinder, the engine is rated at 95 hp. and mated to a 4 speed manual transmission with a positraction 3.27:1 differential. I have 2 other Corvair Greenbriers, but "Blue" is the prettiest and best running, by far.
As for the coin part, here is my 1836 half dollar I found on my property while digging a flower garden. It had the hole in it already, and had seen a fair amount of wear. It has the lettering on the edge, and isn't reeded, like modern halves are.

 

Thank you so much. Sorry about that.

 

Entries will be accepted until 12:00 pm tonight!

Just had a meeting with the judge. He is excited to pick a winner.

 

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