'57 Chevy at Sahara • Las Vegas, Nevada

Every casino has a bank of slot machines clustered around a shiny jackpot car. If you make the maximum bet and nail the winning combination, the car (minus taxes) is yours. It's a great sucker game and pays for itself many times over. Casinos normally use a muscle or luxury car to bait the wheelless hopeful. This Chevy is the first vintage car I've seen offered as a jackpot.

The 1957 Chevy was once as American as apple pie. Many a virginity was lost in that voluminous backseat. You could probably have a threesome back there!

I tried to buy a '57 Chevy in high school but my daddy barked "git dat piece 'o crap outta da yard." In those days it was just an old car and not a classic.

After that brief trip down memory lane, I slid my jackson in the slot machine and gave the button a few whacks. No cigar but the nostalgic buzz was worth the loss and a picture.