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We've seen pennies...but a Nickled Tesla?!

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,816 ✭✭✭✭✭

    To each his own, I suppose.

  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,547 ✭✭✭✭✭

    wow

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Image the added weight.
    Plus the edges look lame.

    Hard pass.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @braddick said:
    Image the added weight.
    Plus the edges look lame.

    Hard pass.

    Yes, more weight on an already heavy vehicle. I wonder what the face value of the nickels is?

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  • davewesendavewesen Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wonder how much that lowers full charge maximum distance?

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,176 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Talk about getting nickeled and dimed on gas mileage.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 19, 2023 5:33PM

    And the additional weight?? WoW!! How many boxes of nickels might that be?!?!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,507 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good grief. :#

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,348 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:
    Nickel-A Tesla ;)

    Glad somebody else got the joke.

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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not for me. That's going to be a pain to hand wax.

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 20, 2023 5:14AM

    @coinJP said:
    Not for me. That's going to be a pain to hand wax.

    It's only going to need an acetone bath!

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • Herb_THerb_T Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you ever need toll, just pick a few off!

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can you imagine how hot that car would get baking in the desert sun? :o

    Looking at the photo, the license plate on the Jeep, the gas station sign and the tree I would guess this is in St. George Utah.
    In the summer it gets to be 105 degrees. That car would get soo hot that if you touched it you would get burned and the A/C would be working overtime.

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Car on it's way to TPG's for grading.

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  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:
    Can you imagine how hot that car would get baking in the desert sun? :o

    Looking at the photo, the license plate on the Jeep, the gas station sign and the tree I would guess this is in St. George Utah.
    In the summer it gets to be 105 degrees. That car would get soo hot that if you touched it you would get burned and the A/C would be working overtime.

    Wouldn't shiny nickels reflect light away from the car and not be absorbed by the car body as much?

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Barberian said:
    Wouldn't shiny nickels reflect light away from the car and not be absorbed by the car body as much?

    Try leaving a nickel on your dash in the hot sun and then touch it, or leave it on the outside of the car on the sunroof.
    Let me know your findings. ;)

  • BarberianBarberian Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ifthevamzarockin said:

    @Barberian said:
    Wouldn't shiny nickels reflect light away from the car and not be absorbed by the car body as much?

    Try leaving a nickel on your dash in the hot sun and then touch it, or leave it on the outside of the car on the sunroof.
    Let me know your findings. ;)

    That's because you didn't cover the windows to reflect light and heat. How's the temperature on the inside of the car?

    3 rim nicks away from Good
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :o Not a project that I would choose.... Many reasons against it, so it must have been a personal focus to achieve a one-of-a-kind possession. Cheers, RickO

  • privatecoinprivatecoin Posts: 3,488 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How many war nickels are on there.... :D

    Well, guess it's a new hail protection theory.

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  • NeophyteNumismatistNeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭

    How many people will be trying to pick them off in the parking lot? It looks like a home craft job now... It's really going to look amazing in 6 moths.

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

  • ifthevamzarockinifthevamzarockin Posts: 8,902 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Barberian said:
    That's because you didn't cover the windows to reflect light and heat. How's the temperature on the inside of the car?

    I also mentioned leaving it outside the car on the sunroof. You could also set it on the hood of the car.
    You could also take a nickel and place it on a board out in the sun.
    You could also try it with 2 nickels and paint one any color other than black and see what one gets hotter faster.
    If left outside long enough both should be close to the same temperature but the unpainted one will heat up faster.
    Paint is also an insulator so the paint on the car keeps it from getting hotter faster. (other than black)
    Because a nickel is thicker it will hold the heat longer than the thinner sheet metal on the car.
    Leave a chrome wrench out in the sun and then touch it after an hour or two.
    The old saying "A cat on a hot tin roof"
    Have you or your kids ever burned your butt on a shiny metal slide at the park?

    Metals generally have a low specific heat. “Specific heat” is a measure of how much energy you have to put in to a substance to raise its temperature one degree. Even though it's shiny and reflects light & heat it only needs to absorb a little of the energy to affect or raise the temperature.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:

    @coinJP said:
    Not for me. That's going to be a pain to hand wax.

    It's only going to need an acetone bath!

    Have fun trying to locate an acetone car wash.

    Pete

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  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 16,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 20, 2023 11:18AM

    Lol
    And I thought I've seen everything?
    Sheesh
    :#

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  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A wonderful example of self medication gone awry.

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Will nickle short out the batteries and the owner now has to buy a new one?

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,951 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    Will nickle short out the batteries and the owner now has to buy a new one?

    Guess it did..................... :D

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • NeophyteNumismatistNeophyteNumismatist Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can't wait to see those nickels show up as "errors with cute names" (i.e. melted Jefferson) on the boards. :D

    I am a newer collector (started April 2020), and I primarily focus on U.S. Half Cents and Type Coins. Early copper is my favorite.

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