This Must Stop - Coin Covered Cars

Coin Covered Cars - Why?

Possible reasons:

"I had a jar full of pennies and my car needed a paint job. It was the only sensible thing to do"

"My car needed some extra weight when driving in the snow so I used 25 pounds of glue and 180 pounds of pennies for better traction"

"This is just my way of sticking it to the government for even making this useless coin. I took 33,000 of them out of circulation"

Please submit your own "possible reasons"

Did you know that if you use pennies made from 1982 to the present it takes about 181 pennies to make a pound?

If he used 33,000 pennies that means he paid $330 (not including glue and time spent) when a cheap paint job is $100.

I'm guessing at how many pennies are covering the car in the above photo based on the numbers provided in this article related to a Camaro covered in coins.



If you think my numbers are all wrong feel free to write your own article.

Just in case you think these are isolated instances here's a link to a wackymobile page with 15 coin covered cars.

The version of this psychosis that put me over the edge is this Vette

I'm now a single issue voter. Any politician who will campaign to ban coin car coatings will get my vote.