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Technomage · Aug 15th, 2002, 03:49 PM

Welcome to the world of "chromies"
Thats what the kids call them. They collect them like pogs or baseball cards and trade them. A recent raid of a middle school netted over 1,000 Valve Caps from student lockers.
They collect them from all cars. Honda, VW, Dodge, ect... but the most valued are the BMW & Benz ones. Any one with a logo on it is worth even more, that makes the chrome MINI ones with the logo EXTREEMLY valueble. I walked around the parking lot here at work and found caps missing from nearly all the cars.
So if you see any 8-14 year old boys near your car, hit them with something heavy and take there stash. You will have enough valve caps for a few years.

-Technomage

Aug 15th, 2002, 03:49 PM	#26
Technomage CVT is gone, S hole now.. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Culver City, CA Local Time: 04:00 PM Posts: 181 Offline	Welcome to the world of "chromies" Thats what the kids call them. They collect them like pogs or baseball cards and trade them. A recent raid of a middle school netted over 1,000 Valve Caps from student lockers. They collect them from all cars. Honda, VW, Dodge, ect... but the most valued are the BMW & Benz ones. Any one with a logo on it is worth even more, that makes the chrome MINI ones with the logo EXTREEMLY valueble. I walked around the parking lot here at work and found caps missing from nearly all the cars. So if you see any 8-14 year old boys near your car, hit them with something heavy and take there stash. You will have enough valve caps for a few years. -Technomage -Technomage turned due to CVT problems Now Stylein in MCS CR/W All options except NAV and PDC. Garmin 2610 NAV. My MINI Adventure so far: http://www.bradherman.net/MINI