[DMUI]

It is not a memorabilia card.  Memorabilia should be KEPT INTACT as much as possible but it this case, the memorabilia has been PURPOSELY DESTROYED and used as another medium.  Regardless of whether the tire rubber was used by the driver depicted on the card, the fact remains that memorabilia is no longer intact.

Remember 03-04 Skybox LE basketball cards that were autographed?  Some of them were autographed by the photographer of the picture and not the professional NBA player on the card?  That was ridiculous.  I'm glad the photographers are getting recognition for their hard work but as an NBA card collector, it didn't give me much excitement.

In The Simpsons episode #3F18, Comic Book Guy has a Sean Connery photo signed by Roger Moore.  Connery and Moore both played James Bond but an autograph on a picture that is not a picture of the person signing the autograph makes it riduculous.

[RegistryDude]

If you look at a stack of memorabilia cards from 99.99% of the sets made, this card would be the outlier - it does not look like a typical memorabilia card so no, this card should not be considered a memorabilia card.

[wolverine74]

I would say these are not memorabilia cards, but props to Press Pass for going green and using recycled tires in a very clever way.

[zhollywood]

My vote is a no on it being a memorabilia card - for the same reasons already listed here.  It's no more than a card made from recycled products.

[the cardboard fan]

I agree with leafschik... It is simply a base card used out of recycled materials... If I take game used bats and grind them up to make the paper for a set of cards... does that make them game used bat cards? NO

[boss rabbit]

I have to vote No, not a memorabilia card.  There is not an identifiable piece of memorabilia on it.  You could have someone drive over the card, then sign it with regular ink, and get the same result.

[radarblip]

Its ecologically (sp) sound, call them official Road intended Green cards.

Human hair ain't memoribilia either, in fact its kinda sick.

[schr1st]

My opinion:  it isn't a memorabilia card because the memorabilia item has been processed and is no longer in it's original form.  If someone were to take a game used bat, chop it up, mix it in with the cardboard used to print cards, it wouldn't be a memorabilia card either.  It certainly would be an interesting item, but not a game used memorabilia card. 

[ARisa062]

I hope I'm not the only one if all Press Press cards are inked using melted race tires. 

As far as the card goes, it's just another insert to me.  Nothing special about it in any way, shape or form but I'd be interested to know how Press Pass classifies them and explains them in releases and to vendors.

[chrisolds]

It's a memorabilia card in my book -- just not a traditional one (or a good one; and the market prices tend to reflect that).

The earlier renditions of cards from this set had more texture so you could see the rubberized surface on it a bit easier. Looked more like something on top of the card vs. just ink.

I also believe that the Racing Champions Chase the Race "Layin' Rubber" chase car cards  had this type of a treatment and consider them memorabilia cards. However on those, the patch is sprayed on the card in the shape of a traditional swatch.

If I remember right, the 1996 Press Pass Burning Rubber cards are touted by the company as the first memorabilia cards. And they use the same technology. This approach was used before swatches, so they are the "memorabilia card of their time" but the standard has since changed.





From Press Pass' site: "A Revolutionary Innovator in the Trading Card Industry
Founded in 1992, Press Pass staked its claim as a revolutionary
trendsetter in the trading card industry by incorporating the first
ever athlete worn or used memorabilia into its trading cards. In its
January 1996 Press Pass NASCAR trading card release, race-used tires
were incorporated into the Burning Rubber racing insert. Later in the
spring and summer of 1996, Press Pass introduced race-used sheet metal
cards, race-used Dale Earnhardt fire-suit cards, and the first-ever
game-used jersey basketball cards. This practice of using event-used
memorabilia in the trading cards would drastically transform the
trading card hobby and spawn a trend that continues today."