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<p>[QUOTE="Philly Dog, post: 213644, member: 7726"]When I was in High School back in the late 60’s the Franklin Mint was in a small building in Folcroft Pa a friend of mine had a job there after school as a watchman , they were making coins for foreign countries and coins for gas station games . Next thing I know he learns to be a die setter for them. He went out bought himself a new 1968 Barracuda. He quit that job and cashed in his stock what a fool at the time there were maybe only 30 people working there, and then they moved to RT 1 in Media Pa giant building with a museum.</p><p>He could have been a contender<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p> </p><p>PS</p><p>I burned his clutch out on that car when he was teaching me to drive stick<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Philly Dog, post: 213644, member: 7726"]When I was in High School back in the late 60’s the Franklin Mint was in a small building in Folcroft Pa a friend of mine had a job there after school as a watchman , they were making coins for foreign countries and coins for gas station games . Next thing I know he learns to be a die setter for them. He went out bought himself a new 1968 Barracuda. He quit that job and cashed in his stock what a fool at the time there were maybe only 30 people working there, and then they moved to RT 1 in Media Pa giant building with a museum. He could have been a contender;) PS I burned his clutch out on that car when he was teaching me to drive stick:D[/QUOTE]
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