A Shiny Truck Finish that Costs Only Pennies!

The truck undergoing its re-finishing.

And no buffing required! It does, however, require a good amount of glue and a lot of, well... pennies. Our friends Mike and Heather have a neighbor, Ron, who lives on the other side of the mesa in southern Colorado. Some time back, Ron decided to re-finish his old pickup truck in Abe Lincolns. He painstakingly glued more than 12,000 pennies, all facing upright, to the body of the truck over several months. Not only had he created a conversation piece, but he increased the value of the truck by $120. As time went on, however, it seems Ron started leaving a trail of pennies along the unpaved mesa roads and in the driveways of the folks he visited. Instead of pennies from heaven, on the mesa it's pennies from Ron. Seems the initial batch of glue just wasn't up to the standards for keeping currency affixed to a moving vehicle. So, Ron is in the process of "re-finishing" the truck with what he hopes is a more effective adhesive.