What's the coolest thing you found in an old car?

This is a fresh one. About 5 hours ago I bought a car for the good flatty in it. In the trunk, wrapped in Los Angeles Examiner newspaper dated July 9, 1966, sealed with masking take was 2 Edelbrock heads that look new. Further up in the trunk, beneath the package tray area, was an old sealed dirty box. Car had been parked in '90 with brake problems, I thought cool, new brake shoes. Picked it up on the end could barely read it ---Edelbrock Pistons. Tore it open, 8 brand new shiny pistons with mark 1/8 L.C. stamped on top. Never opened until I opened the box!! But my luck ended there, no 2x2 or 3x2 intake or headers to be found anywhere in the car. Darn!!
Geez, my hands are still shaking and my heart is still racing!! Just had to show them to someone who would appreciate my find so drove to Bryan & had lunch with 30Roadster. I think he made some vague reference to my parentage.

 

Bought a junker for parts and inside was a stack of old skool nudie mags. Made cleaning that ride out a little funner, still full of "sheet" though. They sure didn't care much for "BM" back then. (bush maintenance)

 

living nests of mice, some old newspapers, and my only 'useful' find was a set of RayBan clip on sun glasses that actually fit the eyeglasses I currently have.

They were in the leather case similar to this set:

 

not as interesting as a hand under the dash but I recently bought a 50 Ford tudor sedan and under the backseat I found a zippo engraved LUCKY on the fliptop and the Clay Smith logo on the bottom, a Jack in the box Pez dispenser still in the wrapper a couple of combs and a receipt from the Austin Hotel Total worth about 15.00 bucks And if any of this stuff sounds like its yours ( Chop Shop Rob), I made it all up.

 

Found a matchbook with 'Richard Nixon for President' on it, in the ashtray, and a parking receipt from Aneheim stadium from 1974.

 

I had a guy fly down from Nova Scotia to look at a 1968 Cougar GTE I had in Hemmings. When he arrived, he planned to spend a few days in Indy to see the sites and instead of renting a car he bought a 1974 Vega from the junkyard for $100 and drove it around illegally for the week he was here. He tried to sell it all week long but never could. He finally called me from the airport with a last ditch offer of $50. I said "no thanks", and he said "the car is parked in front of the United terminal, the title is in the glove box and the keys are on the visor. Get here before it gets towed and it's yours."
I raced up there and got it. Found a couple bucks in change and the greatest one hitter ever (half full). We named it "Canadian Bakin" and everyone had to sing a bit of the Canadian National Anthem before using it. House rules. Anyway, after years of abuse, I accidentally sold it with (ironically) another Vega, this time a yellow station wagon called "the roaming banana". I never found anything in that car but I helped a nice girl named Catherine lose something there. I probably wouldn't remember that if I still had the one hitter.
Kevin Bacon (no relation to my Canadian Bakin) once said he got more ass as a waiter than he ever did as an Actor. He said "you are a total loser if you can't get any as a famous actor but you have to be a real stud to bring home sisters as a waiter." I kinda felt that way about the yellow vega wagon.
I'm fat now though and no chicks want me. So I'm still lookin for the car with the human hand stuffed under the dash. I could really use it.

 

"JEEEz" Bellm..., First you win a free Engine and trany..., Then you find performance parts every time you turn around...!

"So When are you going to buy The Texas Mega Million winning ticket... ???

Or are you going to buy a car with the winning ticket stuck in the seat crack... ?

Mark

 

Thats hilarious unclescoob



and I know what your tag line means

 

thanks for bringing it up flex, after a minute of staring at his tag line I got it

I was tearing the interior out of a 78 corvette and I found a weed bowl and a bottle of pills

my dad bought a 57 chev 4 door sedan for parts and had no trunk key. when he got it back to our farm, we took the back seat out to get at the trunk and found 4 mint doors and a complete set of mint stainless trim for the whole car.

Too bad he isnt restoring a 4 door sedan

 

This isn't really OLD car related but I used to work for a Rent-A-Car place after college and we had a Geo Metro that came back stinkin like a box of farts. Tried cleanin it, sprayin freshener in it, leavin the windows down and more. Finally, I was standing near it trying to figure out what to do and I heard something inside the car. I opened the hatch and lifted the spare tire cover and found about six inches of maggots. Couldn't even see the spare tire through them. Someone had spilled a gallon of milk and who knows what into the spare tire hole and it sat and grew for weeks in the sun. It was pretty fun.
When people were assholes about the free car delivery, we'd stop at the grocery and buy fish to put under the seat. They wouldn't notice it for the first day or two of their vacation...but we always guessed it sucked when they finally did notice it. I learned to do that from a girl named Vicky that worked for me. She seemed nice but some days it looked like she combed her hair with a pork chop and she apparently knew her way around fish.

 

When I bought my Dodge back in 95 there was a roach in the ash tray! The best part was the owner I bought it from said that he did not smoke and bought the car from the original owner who was a 70 yr old woman (retired school teacher). After I bought the 65 and took it home I found the original window sticker in the trunk along with some racing flags.

 

Pack of matches from "Diamond Tooth Gertie's Saloon and Dance Hall" Dawson City, Yukon. Sound's like my kind of place, need to go there someday

 

I found a dead hooker with a chin dong on her head.

 

I bought this old roached out white 58 Impala
back in the mid 60's.
When I started cleaning it out I found......

Three Musketeers,ah,and a ballpoint pen,
a comb, a pint of Old Harper, couple of
flashlight batteries, and some Beef Jerkey.

The Old Harper was empty.
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"Opossum Benders"
Mid Mo. Chapter

 

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I bought this old roached out white 58 Impala
back in the mid 60's.
When I started cleaning it out I found......

Three Musketeers,ah,and a ballpoint pen,
a comb, a pint of Old Harper, couple of
flashlight batteries, and some Beef Jerkey.

The Old Harper was empty.
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"Opossum Benders"
Mid Mo. Chapter


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Didn't happen to see some panty's and a loose wire that ran to the ignition..., "Didja"... ?

 

When I brought the Buick home,When I pulled the Back seat to Install the speakers in the rear panels..I found A "Friskies Cat Food Coupon" That stated if you turned in 10 Friskies box tops..You got a FREE stuffed "Morris the Cat"Doll....Had to beLong to the Ol woman who Originally sold it!I thought that was pretty cool.It said at the bottom of the coupon.."Expires May 15th 1971"

 

Hit a bump in the '57 Plymouth and pack of condoms dropped to the floor. Always made me think of the previous owners wife, Sweeeeeet.

 

Not a cool but a very cold and frozen wino,he was froze to the steering wheel of my friends grandpas 60 ford.
It was on christmas morning 1969.
Cops said he probably got in just trying to stay warm. sad!

 

These are hillarious! Dont know how I ended up this far back...but
When I bought my 50 chevy, it had been sitting at a mechanics shop for about 3 years in Santa Monica. The drivers side window had come off the track so anyone could get in. One time before I bought it I took a friend to show the car to him, and a bum sleeping in the back seat woke up! We were all equally surprised. We just left him alone. When I finally went to go pick it up we found a used condom underneath.
I guess I was the second owner because the glovebox had been stuck since the 60's. Inside was the original sales brochure/manual, about 12 years worth of registrations from the 50's-60's, old maps, receipts and papers. A little notebook with every oil change/service. A pack of chesterfields, and one of those crystal dashboard things that helps you see the signals. I thought it was pretty cool-like a time warp

 

I picked up a very shot up 48 F1 truck a few weeks back. Hanging out of one of the bigger bullet holes in the door was about 10 inches of a very dried up rattlesnake.

The dogs must have ate it before I could take a pic..

 

I bought a '63 Bug years ago and found some lacey panties behind the back seat. Can't imagine what was going on back there!

 

So that's where all that went Gary4T950 Chevy Guy

 

I bought a parts car (50 chevy more door for the back end that had no rust ...my 2 doors trunk panel and tail light panel was swiss cheesy) bought the car for 50 bucks...good thing it was a parts car....when I looked at it at the yard sale it was about 0730 and still cool out, when me and my pop picked it up after fetching the trailer I caught a wiff of something, didnt think much of it (bear in mind the car had not seen the road since 1965 and was VERY ragged out) I had noticed the the front seat was kinda weird...what was left of the apohlstry was all matted together but aged) I didnt think much of it yet again....got the car home in the after noon and started to strip it and could not stay in the car it stank so bad....(pulling the dash and pertinent keepable stuff) ended up cutting the roof off to get fresh air. saw the bloke that I bought it off of at the fire station a few weeks later and thanked him for the good deal but told him the car fuggin STANK....Stank so bad it was imbedded in the metal. He then informed me that the cars owner committed suicide in the sled by shutting himself in it in his garage and let the car run out of gas.... he lived by himself and when he passed out he fell over on the front seat. stayed there for months till his neighbors started smelling rotting body....he said they ended up leveling the house due to the permeation of the stench....I woulda thought the smell would have gone away (this was in 1995) The remainder of the car was hauled off to the local scrapper

only thing I found was my gag reflex

 

Being a Graffitti fanatic...THAT'S FUNNY!!!

 

Bought a 67? Riv at police auction. No trunk key, busted it open , loaded .45 auto and 400 Springsteen (sp) tickets.....Day after the show.......OLDBEET....PS funny how many guns are found...WTF?

 

I bought a 50 shoebox got her home went to sleep the next morning I found a bum smelling of shit and whiskey sleeping in her. He asked me to keep it down, close the door and turn on the coffee. An hour later he helped me clean the garage and strip her out. Not bad for 10 cups of coffee and twenty bucks. He was thinking he was cleaning his new house.
I just bought a 54 customline and found my new girlfriend..lol

 

a service reciept from Rosewll New Mexico... i'm guessing thats where the car was sold new

 

when i got my trunk all cleaned out i found a large bird skelton on top of the rear driver fenderwell. i laughed and shut the trunk. it was still in there the day i sold it. theres a 53 primer gray chevy running around california with a bird skeleton in the back. hilarious.

 

thought this was cool, not in the car, but in the barn next to the hood and 2 doors for an old dodge.

 

I found a bitchen switch blade in a early 70s Pinto at Ecology...about 20 yrs ago.
Its a pretty trick knife but it stays at home.
Good luck to the Drag Racers in Mokan,,,stay the course on the safe side.