TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE

Paradise is a relative concept for our purposes, but I suspect several of you reading this would consider a visit to the annual 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, to be one definition of it.  What we have here are two tickets to paradise, and they date from 1962.

The top ticket is the basic entry ticket, and note the perforations spelling “24 HEURES DU MANS” and “1962”.  Such perforations were a way of preventing fraudulent tickets in the days before bar codes and magnetic strips and such.

The bottom ticket is likely even rarer, and it’s a re-entry ticket serving the same purpose as getting your hand stamped so you can leave and then come back into an event.

These tickets will not likely get you into any events now, but as collectors’ items or just plain motorsports artifacts, they’re not bad, and they might just get you into an automobilia exhibition!