# monopoly race car number 3

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-race-car-number-3/421943>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 8, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-race-car-number-3/421943 "2007-10-08T15:49:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Hetata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90ced4/32.png) [@Hetata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hetata)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-race-car-number-3/421943/1 "2007-10-08T15:49:56Z")

</div>

Why does one monopoly race car that i found at a flea market have the number 3 on the cowling behind the drivers seat?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monopoly-race-car-number-3/421943/2 "2007-10-08T16:06:07Z")

</div>

Apparently because it was made before some point in the 1960s:

[http://www.monopoly-history.com/tokens.php](http://www.monopoly-history.com/tokens.php)

> [@](#):
>
> By the mid 1950s the car had been replaced by the more familiar race car (it had a 3 on it until sometime in the '60s), so all the tokens resembled today’s tokens. Over time Parker Bros. again farmed out the production of the tokens, different dies were used, but the basic design has remained the same for the past 50 years.

WAG - it simply has a number on it because race cars have numbers on them, and the token designer liked 3.