Dealerships around the country are doing all they can to move their inventory of full-size pickup trucks in the wake of $4 gasoline, but we’re pretty sure the employees at one Cincinnati area Chevrolet dealership weren’t prepared for what they had to go through on Tuesday morning.
70-year old James Jones walked into the Springdale dealership on Tuesday morning with his wife and 16 coffee cans full of coins. Jones brought the loose change as partial payment for a brand new Chevrolet Silverado pickup.
90 minutes and several nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars later, the dealership employees had counted out enough coinage to cover half of the truck’s $16,000 price tag, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Jones paid for the balance of the truck with a check.
The new pickup will replace his 1981 model, which actually put him in the hospital last year when the parking brake failed.
Jones’ reason for using coins instead of paper money? He doesn’t trust paper money.
