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Gates Mystery Car Winner Coin 1969
Gates Mystery Car Winner Coin 1969,
I have a coin that has the words "Gates Mystery Car Winner" Dated 1969. Can anyone tell me what this Dollar sized coin is about. |
"Rustyz" wrote in message v.net...
Gates Mystery Car Winner Coin 1969, I have a coin that has the words "Gates Mystery Car Winner" Dated 1969. Can anyone tell me what this Dollar sized coin is about. Gates Rubber Company was (and still is, I think) a Denver, Colorado based company that produces/supplies automotive rubber belts and hoses. At one time, they had an unmarked car that visited gas stations throughout the USA. They would buy fuel, of course, and then wait and see if the service station attendant would offer to check under the hood for oil and presumably the condition of the belts and hoses. If the attendant did so, they would get one of the coins and would also be mentioned in a company newsletter/ and or advertisments. A good friend of mine had a famous restaurant and service station on U.S. Route 66 in Illinois. On one busy day, the Gates Mystery Car pulled in; my friend fueled up their car and did nothing else. When he asked them for the money, they paid him and told him that he had missed his chance to service the Gates Mystery Car. He told them to go #@^*!!! themselves and to ++##@&!!! their mystery car up their poopy chutes!!! However, several years later his son did do the right thing when the Gates mystery car pulled in again. Bob Olson ) |
"Rustyz" wrote in message .net... Gates Mystery Car Winner Coin 1969, I have a coin that has the words "Gates Mystery Car Winner" Dated 1969. Can anyone tell me what this Dollar sized coin is about. I can't tell you specifically about that coin but I do have a story from the far side and some speculation ;-) There is a Gates, or was, I think they still exist, not sure now, who manufactured automobile parts, specifically such things as belts. Back in the dark ages there were gas stations which were full service. They cleaned the windshield and all other windows, checked under the hood for all the fluids, checked the belts and filters, checked the tire pressures and pumped the gas. Now the Gates manufacturer had some representative that drove around the country with poor belts on the cars and checked the station attendants toughness. One visited a station where my father worked and he told the guy that the belts needed replacing. He asked my father what kind did he recommend and my father said that the best were Gates belts. Correct answer!! My father received an award plaque with 10 or 20 (I think 20) Silver Dollars in it. Quite a good amount in those days. By 1969 Silver Dollars were not as easy to come by but I think that your coin might have a somewhat similar story. Hope you get an answer from someone that actually knows about your coin :-) Dale |
"Dale Hallmark" wrote in message ... Back in the dark ages there were gas stations which were full service. They cleaned the windshield and all other windows, checked under the hood for all the fluids, checked the belts and filters, checked the tire pressures and pumped the gas. Aw, C'mon Grampa, yer makin' that up. They never did that. Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts again.. I bet next yer gonna tell us that story about how you could buy a brand new full-sized car for $3000.00 and gas was 30 cents a gallon, and you walked to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways.. now tell us that story about how you used to leave your car in the driveway with the windows down and the keys in the ignition.. that one makes us laugh too.. ;) .. Harv (Born in a log cabin he helped his Father build..) .. |
"Harv" wrote in message . .. "Dale Hallmark" wrote in message ... Back in the dark ages there were gas stations which were full service. They cleaned the windshield and all other windows, checked under the hood for all the fluids, checked the belts and filters, checked the tire pressures and pumped the gas. Aw, C'mon Grampa, yer makin' that up. They never did that. Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts again.. I bet next yer gonna tell us that story about how you could buy a brand new full-sized car for $3000.00 and gas was 30 cents a gallon, and you walked to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways.. now tell us that story about how you used to leave your car in the driveway with the windows down and the keys in the ignition.. that one makes us laugh too.. ;) .. Maybe I won't tell you that but I will tell you that my father bought his home (newly built) for $3,500 and my mother's father bought a 313 acre farm for the princely sum of $3,130 in the late 1930's (slightly before my time ;-) Dale May be old but not a Gramp ;-) |
"Harv" wrote in message . .. "Dale Hallmark" wrote in message ... Back in the dark ages there were gas stations which were full service. They cleaned the windshield and all other windows, checked under the hood for all the fluids, checked the belts and filters, checked the tire pressures and pumped the gas. Aw, C'mon Grampa, yer makin' that up. They never did that. Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts again.. I bet next yer gonna tell us that story about how you could buy a brand new full-sized car for $3000.00 I bought my brand new 1970 Ford Maverick for $2100 in 1969 about Christmas time. and gas was 30 cents a gallon, I think it was $0.24 cents a gallon back then but if you watched the price wars and didn't mind waiting in line, you sometimes could get it for $.10 to $.15 a gallon and you walked to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways.. Now I did walk to school. every day. But I had shoes and it was kind of flat. of course, in the Northern NY winters there was a lot of snow. The only time I ever remember school being cancelled was during the blizzard of 1966 when Syracuse got 72" of new snow in 3 days. And I went to the same Catholic School for 13 years grades K through 12. And when we went to basketball games, we often walked to the opposing schools. none of this namby pamby school bus rides. We didn't even know what a school bus was. now tell us that story about how you used to leave your car in the driveway with the windows down and the keys in the ignition.. that one makes us laugh too.. ;) .. Nah. I didn't leave the keys in the car but I did leave it unlocked. And, unfortunately, I did leave my brand new 1970 Ford Maverick parked on the street and had some regular A$$ ... er, idiot, run a stop sign and take out the whole back end of the car ... $400 worth of damages. And the odometer only read 240 miles at the time. Some high school kid showing off for his girl friend. Reflecting back, car damages besides, I remember why we called those days the GOD (Good Old Days) Man, we had fun back then. When you talk about drive-ins today, people think of drive-thorughs at McDonalds. And when we talk about watching submarine races, people think of the cold war. Of course, a poll back in the GOD asked what people's favorite number was. It was 69, of course. A few years ago, people were asked the same question, "What's your favorite number?" And the answer was .... 401(k). Times sure have changed! -- Richard ANA# R-176949 http://home.netcom.com/~richlh Dating Coins from the reverse: http://home.netcom.com/~richlh/Coins...erse_Dated.htm Minor Errors: http://home.netcom.com/~richlh/Coins/Errors//Errors.htm http://home.netcom.com/~richlh/Coins...s//Errors2.htm Large and Small Date Lincolns: http://home.netcom.com/~richlh/Coins...mall_Dates.htm Viewing the 3's on Lincolns http://home.netcom.com/~richlh/Coins/Comparison3's.htm RCC FAQ: http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq2.html |
HARV, you made laugh so hard : )))) Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts
again. LMFAO!!!!! |
What is funnier than that is that Harv is 5 or 6 years older than I am ;-)
Dale /--------------------------\ my website: http://www.austriancoins.com "Edward McGrath" wrote in message ... HARV, you made laugh so hard : )))) Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts again. LMFAO!!!!! |
"Rustyz" wrote in message v.net...
Gates Mystery Car Winner Coin 1969, I have a coin that has the words "Gates Mystery Car Winner" Dated 1969. Can anyone tell me what this Dollar sized coin is about. Don't know much about them, but there are some on eBay right now. Tom DeLorey |
"Dr. Richard L. Hall" wrote:
Aw, C'mon Grampa, yer makin' that up. They never did that. Hey everybody, Grampa is going nuts again.. I bet next yer gonna tell us that story about how you could buy a brand new full-sized car for $3000.00 I bought my brand new 1970 Ford Maverick for $2100 in 1969 about Christmas time. Bought a nice 1950 Chevy for $50 in 1962 at a used car dealer. My 1966 Corvette cost me $4600 new. Gas was .15-.19/gallon during the gas wars then. and gas was 30 cents a gallon, I think it was $0.24 cents a gallon back then but if you watched the price wars and didn't mind waiting in line, you sometimes could get it for $.10 to $.15 a gallon and you walked to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways.. Now I did walk to school. every day. But I had shoes and it was kind of flat. of course, in the Northern NY winters there was a lot of snow. The only time I ever remember school being cancelled was during the blizzard of 1966 when Syracuse got 72" of new snow in 3 days. And I went to the same Catholic School for 13 years grades K through 12. And when we went to basketball games, we often walked to the opposing schools. none of this namby pamby school bus rides. We didn't even know what a school bus was. I walked to grammar school both ways as well as home for lunch. No SWAT teams keeping us from coming or going on the property. now tell us that story about how you used to leave your car in the driveway with the windows down and the keys in the ignition.. that one makes us laugh too.. ;) .. Nah. I didn't leave the keys in the car but I did leave it unlocked. And, unfortunately, I did leave my brand new 1970 Ford Maverick parked on the street and had some regular A$$ ... er, idiot, run a stop sign and take out the whole back end of the car ... $400 worth of damages. And the odometer only read 240 miles at the time. Some high school kid showing off for his girl friend. Always left our new Impala parked unlocked when we lived in Alaska, where a locked car would often stay that way in the winter. Noplace much a thief could go with it anyway without being conspicuous. Reflecting back, car damages besides, I remember why we called those days the GOD (Good Old Days) Man, we had fun back then. When you talk about drive-ins today, people think of drive-thorughs at McDonalds. And when we talk about watching submarine races, people think of the cold war. Of course, a poll back in the GOD asked what people's favorite number was. It was 69, of course. A few years ago, people were asked the same question, "What's your favorite number?" And the answer was .... 401(k). Times sure have changed! I think one big difference between growing up in the 40's and 50's and today is how independent kids were back then in how they entertained themselves. No parents driving us to organized activities. We walked or biked (no freeways, turnpikes, or heavy traffic to worry about) for miles through city or suburbs. We played pickup baseball on local fields just about every day in the summer. Today, kids don't seem to play any traditional "vacant lot" sports unless they're on teams with uniforms and bleachers. Of course most taxpayer-funded athletic fields are reserved for league play nowadays and there are few vacant lots left for kids who do want to just mess around with a bat & ball. Bruce |
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