Cool Penny Pinching GrandPa
Breaking News, Funny News December 26th, 2007
Penny pincher or not this is one cool grandpa.
70-year-old Paul Brant used more than $25,000 in change to buy a Dodge Ram half-ton pickup truck Friday - 13 years after buying another truck with spare change.
“(The old truck) didn’t have four-wheel drive, and living in the country, I figured I better get a new one to help get me through the snow,” he said.
He has been storing coins for years, and by his words he had about $26,000 for Fridays purchase.
“As long as you don’t put your hands back in the till, it really adds up,” he said.
Brant stored his change in coffee cans, water jugs and piggy banks for years, and was escorted by sheriff’s deputies as he brought the coins to the Dodge dealership.
An employee at the dealership who sold him the truck said they had to call in an armored car to count and handle the coins.
“No bank wants to take them,” Keith Gephart said.
13 years ago Brant used $36,000 in quarters to buy a Dodge pickup and a Dodge Neon.
What a legend.
December 27th, 2007 at 12:09 am
It’s not quite as “pennypinching” as it sounds. The guy admits the change came from the vending machines at the Chrysler plant where he works. If he had brown-bagged all the snacks he’s been buying instead of paying exhorbitant machine prices for them, he’d have had this truck long ago, and wouldn’t have had the inconvenience of all that change too. Therefore this is a manufactured and economically-false story.