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Explain your MO at the coin auto wash.
Coinstartled
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First off, do you use quarters or swipe the Visa card so your hoard remains intact?
Do you stand there and spray down the already clean car with the last 40 seconds on the timer or place the live handle into the holder?
Dry off the car with old towels or drive it off wet?
Spring the extra buck and vacuum the inside of the heap?
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Please remember that coins were minted for the sole purpose of facilitating commerce. Only later in the continuum did the deep pocketed collector garner consideration.
Coin operated equipment of all description merits discussion on the board.
You're funny Coinstartled. Elmiracoin, you do have a legitimate point, but maybe there is something numismatic about Coinstartled thread. The thread hits home with me at least.
Let me explain. I own three soda-pop machines. They're distributed at various locations at my business. They're not money makers. Just a nice convenience for employees. And customers. One is located in the offices for the girls. One in the shop for the boys. And one at Will Call for the customers. Do you have any idea how many quarters those babies soak up on a hot day? Those quarters are my hoard. But I have too many. So lately, I've been distributing those quarters to the service truck drivers with instructions to use them at the car wash. AND to vaccuum the vehicles. The trucks are still dirty so the drivers are most likely diverting the quarters to other purposes, but I am trying, nevertheless, to get rid of my hoard via the carwash. So Coinstartle, in my opinion, is standing on firm numismatic ground. And he's funny to boot.
Afterthought. What the heck is wrong with posting about the car wash as a way of facilitating the hobby when , like, EVERY COTTON PICKIN' DAY around here people post about those da*mn blasted Coinstar machines?????????????
I do not believe in washing vehicles as I view them only as a tool to get you from one place to another.
When your frame rusts out it's going to be kind of hard to get anywhere. Especially if you live in the rust belt.
Original and uncleaned! Nice.
Lance.
LOL, so your telling me that every time I go launch my kayak at the beach and drive my truck thru the shallow SALTWATER surf that my truck may actually be corroding , lmao, tell me something that I do not know.
I actually acid test Toyotas, I can break them.
In the photo above, that truck has a front broken axle that I did not find out about until 200 miles later when my mechanic found out what the noise was.
Using coins saves customers from the problems that follow credit card abuses, they have various tricks to lull customers into not knowing what they will be charged. By the way a coin based car wash led to a gun pointed at me in Charlotte, NC many years ago, long story.
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But did it still grade?
I'm kinda cheap so I don't use any coins or a card at coin op car washes, however when it rains I will pull into one and use the soap brush on my wet car and then I will drive around in the rain until it's rinsed off, if it stopped raining I will go slow through flooded intersections and let passing and oncoming cars splash and rinse my car off
and then I'll be happy I saved a buck seventy five in quarters.
Steve
Were you aware, my good man, that many 1955 double die cents were discovered as change from cigarette vending machines. Not in the expected manner though. A pack of smokes was vended at 25 cents, but the individual pack dispensed included 2 cents in change. Many are now worth over a thousand bucks.
This is all very interesting.
We do not pay to vacuum at the car wash. Why should the car wash company get all the loose coins we lost/dropped on the floor,between/under the seats.
To keep this somewhat numismatic-related, the roll hunter in me always wonders how many rare treasures are sitting in those coin-operated collection bins. Silver? Type-B clad reverses? Rotated obverse/reverse? Doubled-dies?
Keeping it coin related AND addressing a favorite topic COUNTERFEITS: One of those cash washes was cleaned out of all their quarters by someone putting photo copied $1 bills into the change machine.
Interesting that the local washes never adopted the Sac and presidential dollars.
Well not really that interesting as the little gems were never accepted by consumers or retailers.
That would be a yes...looks like you got a little rust brewing in that front rocker panel. Have you ever used Fluid Film before? Great stuff.
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Needs a dipping.
Next time I'd buy a brown vehicle - just sayin'
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I have never used a coin op carwash....Come to think of it... I have not washed my car since 2008....
Saved a lot of quarters I guess..... 
Cheers, RickO
I don't frequent the car wash often as I've normally driven work trucks but I always followed my dads rules of wash it once a year whether it needs it or not! Oh and I pay the water bill with a check twice a year.
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I go to a place where you pick they level of wash and for a set fee you can go thru everyday if you want to.
It's a great deal especially in the winter months.
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I assume you have seen the Top Gear where they try to kill the Toyota Pickup?
They crashed it, drowned it, set it on fire and strapped it on the top of a building that was being demoished, and the darned thing still ran. A bit broken, but it still started. They finally put it in a place of honor in the studio.
Great episode, that...
I've owned a charcoal grey car for the past 16 years because it hides the dirt so well. (Oh, and I also drive steath cars. Family sedans. Below the radar of the state troopers...)
I had to take my car in to a dearlership once for service, and they washed it. I didn't recognize it when they brought it out. I mean, it was like, shiney.
What? This is a numismatic forum? The car was shiney like I like my proofs. There. Coin related.
A good rainstorm does wonders for my vehicle....
Cheers, RickO
Mmmm...spahkly clean...
Those are US quarters going in the machine so this thread is relevant.
However I only save those white quarters.
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I use the visa to wash my coins at the car wash.
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Actually, whenever I use the coin-op car wash, I run a $20 through the bill changer and hope to hit the jackpot in silver quarters. I have gotten a fair amount over the years.
Cheers
Bob
my vending machine buddy tells me that the old cigarette vending machines were the mother lode when it came to finding silver. I guess running out of cigarettes calls for the desperate action.
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I've found a stack of quarters that some previous customer left staged on top of the machine..
This reminds me of the story about the birds stealing quarters out of the machine, they later found most of them on the roof. snopes
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ChrisH821 beat me to this comment. I like to walk by and through the car wash on my walks. Not only are they stacked they can be anywhere on the ground.
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Vacuum is free where I go and do to the nature of my driving I pay monthly for unlimited washes, sometimes go 3 times per week.
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No, not really.
My wife washes our cars cause I could't give a crap what they look like.
Joseph J. Singleton - First Superintendent of the U.S. Branch Mint in Dahlonega Georgia
Findley Ridge Collection
About Findley Ridge
If there were a self service place within reasonable distance I would be heading there now, just the full service places. Salt on the roads for snow damages vehicles.