Trinkets and Doodads for Those Who Are Just Looking Seeing all the new cars may be the reason automotive journalists from all over the world gather at the Detroit auto show during press days at the Cobo Center, but part of the fun is also seeing what tchotchkes the automakers hand out on the show floor. The new Corvette Stingray is important and all, but wasn't that a really cool paperweight Chevy handed out along with the press materials about the car? They went fast. The leader in handing out nifty stuff is usually Scion, which in the past has provided hats, sunglasses and key chains. This year it had cloth sleeves for your gadgets and a Scion-branded baseball cap. Mini at least handed out something to eat, always a hit with the Cobo crowd. It offered a mini Mini chocolate bar, with links to press information on the wrapper. News you could use, I guess. The most elaborate, and probably the most useful swag, came from Jeep. Its press materials were inside a first-aid box. It included a flashlight, hand sanitizer, Band-Aids and a Jeep bandanna. Stuff one would need for a Safari, or something like that. Chevrolet, whose stand was constantly packed with people gawking at the new Corvette, had cool lapel buttons with Corvette and Stingray logos and others with pictures of the Silverado and Camaro. But that handsome Corvette paperweight, with the silver Stingray logo embedded on top, was the real prize. At least for someone it will be. It's being offered on eBay, where many auto show doodads end up. On Tuesday afternoon, the bidding was up to $500.