Thanks to National Car Rental for sponsoring this giveaway for the MilesQuest readers.

Prize #1 is a A Gift Basket consisting of a National tumbler, a National embossed leather writing pad, a National pen set, a weekend duffel bag and a driving kit.

The winner is comment #28 Sice who’s favorite band is “With the Smiths breaking up that year the arrival of The Sugarcubes was very welcome!”.

Prize #2 is an American Express gift card valued at $25.

The winner is comment #20 Erndog who’s favorite band is “Grateful Dead, bro”.

Prize #3 is another American Express gift card valued at $25.

The winner is comment #32 Jessica F who’s favorite band is “in 1987 my favorite band (singer) was Madonna! Still love her!”.

To recap, National Car Rental is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a contest called “Blast From the Past” via their Facebook page. You can submit a story, photo, or video on what you were doing 25 years ago for a chance to win $25 Visa Gift Card. Make sure and go their Facebook page and enter – thanks!

If you haven’t already, go to this post and leave a comment about your favorite band from 25 years ago.

The prizes are a National Car Rental gift basket and 2 – $25 Amex gift cards.

National Car Rental is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a contest called “Blast From the Past” via their Facebook page. You can submit a story, photo, or video on what you were doing 25 years ago for a chance to win $25 Visa Gift Card.

They also offered three prizes to me to give away to my readers: A Gift Basket consisting of a National tumbler, a National embossed leather writing pad, a National pen set, a weekend duffel bag and a driving kit, and two $25 American Express gift cards.

In order to enter my contest, I want to know what your favorite band was back in 1987.

My favorite band in 1987 was the Cure. I had been into hair bands up until then when a friend of mine let me borrow his Cure “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me” cassette tape. I was blown away and my musical tastes changed forever.

This then led me to New Order

And to Depeche Mode

Leave a comment in the comment section of what your favorite band was in 1987 and I will pick three random winners from the entries – good luck!

Thanks to all of you who entered the National Car Rental $100 gas card contest.

I ran the random number generator, and comment number 15 won – Pat!

I signed up for this promo as soon as it was offered (3 rentals so far!). My flights usually arrive in the middle of the night, and I found that I can joke around and empathize about long hours and off-shifts with the folks at the National Counter moreso than the other big chains.

My GF and I are planning a trip to Oregon for me to meet, for the first time, her extended family, right before the Holidays. Regardless of this drawing, we are using our free National Rental days to get us around

Thanks so much for everyone’s participation and for National Car Rental for sponsoring it. Make sure and take advantage of their One Two Free promotion!

National Car Rental is running a new promotion where you can earn a free rental certificate for every two qualifying rentals between August 22nd, 2011 and January 31st, 2012. It is called the “1,2 Free” promotion. You must be a member of the Emerald Club to participate – you can register at this link if you aren’t a member. All the terms and conditions can be found at that link.

In order to take part in this promotion, you will need to register here prior to making any of your reservations.

In order to celebrate this new promotion, National Car Rental is allowing MilesQuest readers to participate in a random drawing for a $100 gas card! All you’ll need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this post by October 1st at 11:59 PM MST telling me where you would use your free rental days along with your $100 free gas card.

This contest is only open for US readers so my loyal followers in Kazakhstan will have to wait for another contest. Also – I am not receiving any compensation in any form for giving away this gas card.

National Rental Car just happens to be where I always rent my cars on business trips and I am an Executive member in their program. I have always enjoyed their selection of cars and speed of checkout.

Good luck!

Enroll and earn up to 3,000 bonus miles.

Your Emerald Club enrollment will qualify you to earn up to 3,000 bonus miles from Delta SkyMiles, as shown on the right. Remember, in addition to these bonus miles, you’ll also earn our standard frequent traveler miles for every qualifying rental.

Start enjoying the privileges of Emerald Club membership and qualify for bonus miles.

Thanks to Rick at Frugal Travel Guy for the tip. Rick has been very good over the years to answer a lot of my questions.

Over three years ago, Gary at View from the Wing posted about getting free National Rental Car Executive Status.

Sadly, my status has finally expired last month. Most of my travel is international, so I didn’t use it a whole lot, but using it for family vacations and the occasional US business trip had it’s perks.

There’s just something about bypassing the counter and picking whichever car you want off the lot!

Use the link on the right to enroll in National Rental Car. You will be given a free upgrade to Executive status.

Some of the benefits:

Bypass the counter – As an Emerald Club member, bypass the rental counter and go directly to the Emerald Club AisleTM at more than 50 major airports in the U.S. and Canada.

Choose your own car – As an Emerald Club member, don’t waste time looking for your assigned car – just choose any car from the Emerald Club Aisle and be on your way.

Speed up returns with an E-Receipt – As an Emerald Club member, there’s no need to wait around for a piece of paper when you return your car. We’ll email you a detailed receipt.