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

I was doing a little cleaning on the coupe today and found a handful of change. There was some wheat pennies(42, 48, 44), a Canadian penny from 43, and two mercury dimes, 1918 and 1943. They were right under the driver's seat and I didn't look real close so maybe I'll find some more. What have you all found? coins, lighters, guns, bodies...?

 

A hot horny girl.

Seriously,I bought a 48 Merc pickup a few years ago.I was driving my daily which was a nice 48 merc pickup.I got the other one to build.I also had been hit in my daily and it fucked the grill.I got the one home and it didn't have a grill in it.I started lookin the truck over.I looked in side under the seat and guess what I found!Seven grillbars!And a Eddie Meyer Hollywood two pot intake with 2 97s on it!....Shiny

 

Damn! I'll trade you 6 vintage coins for the intake and carbs

My wife got a little hot when she saw my car but it wasn't the good kinda hot

 

I found a stromberg 48 and a *perfect* set of Guides in the bed of my '31. Other than that I guess my best score was an ancient bag of weed that was probably older than I am.

Since we're already off-topic, let me side-step a little further and tell a funny story about how I got that car. The seller was a complete dick during all parts of the sale. We agreed to a time & date for pick up, but wouldn't you know the dildo wasn't home when we showed up with the rollback. I wanted the car pretty bad so I gave him another shot. The car was being stored under his deck, so while we were pulling it out, his dog walks overhead and takes the biggest piss right on his head. My dad and I couldn't stop laughing at the guy! I guess it was better to be pissed off than pissed on!


Ed

 

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I found a stromberg 48 and a *perfect* set of Guides in the bed of my '31. Other than that I guess my best score was an ancient bag of weed that was probably older than I am.


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heh, reminds me of when I found a couple roaches in the back ashtray of the V-dub I bought. Ya I know, I mentioned an import, a (gasp) v-dub here.

 

Other than buying cars and parts at my shop I go to Police impound auctions. The local junk yards dont bid on any thing over 30 yrs old except for scrap metal. So I am about the only bidder on old shit. The list on things found are drugs ,fire arms ,human body parts{not cool},{Plomb tools best find}lots of cheap tools and a few good ones and some jewerly, small change,one car had almost 400 lbs of no 1 copper in the trunk.

 

I got a 9mm pistol from under the seat of a car I bought at the POLICE impound. I get happy when I find tools, and I found 3 $50 bills in a bank passbook under the carpet of a 69 Torino. The passbook was dated 1969, and the bills were crisp. The guy must have bought the car new and stashed the $$ there for???
It made a 300 dollar car a little better of a deal.
And now I pull all the carpets out of the cars I pick up..

 

I found a dead squirrel that wasn't very dead, boy was he pissed when I held him up and woke him from his winter sleep.
-Jesse

 

my dad got a 57 chevy from a guy once and stuffed in a vent were a pair of panties from some girl the previous owner had stuffed in there...pissed his 1st wife off..lol the guy who did it said he had to hide it from his wife,too lol..coolest thing i've ever found in a car was a pocket knife
Creepy

 

Not sure if this is considered Cool or not , But the mechanic must have been in a hurry when he worked on my deuce .

 

my 56 had the biggest pair of skimpy panties i have ever seen. not too cool.

 

One 57 - two sticks of very very sweaty dynamite. Removed these very cautiously.

Second 57 - we were stripping a no option 57 150 two door and I found an earring in the heater duct with a rock in it so big it had to be fake - I asked my buddy if I could keep it, he said no problem as it had to be fake. I scored the vent window with it bad enough to warrant having the earring checked out by someone who know stones. The earring is in my safety deposit box. Worth considerably more than the $200 dollar car we stripped.

Other goodies have included a pint sealer of homebrew, load binders, chains, a General Jumbo rim, and a Snap-On prybar.

 

1938 silver dime in my 38 chevy it was in the front door post ,plus a old cigar that was petrified , must have be en able to smoke on the job back then

 

The '61 Impala purchased 5yrs. ago was a pile of part's. In the trunk, buried in part's was an early Wieand Stealth intake and pair of very Nice Early Corvett valve cover's with the staggered bolt hole's. Still saving them for that next ride...

 

when i got my 64 impala i figured it was used in cheech and chong's movie, green shag carpet back shelf, blue dingleballs all around , little smile faces stuck every with blue night lights in the interior, and of course stripping it down i came upon a fiver bag tucked up in the seat springs,i could not believe it they must have gone nuts wondering if they smoked it all, and over looked this baggie

 

Found a vintage Pocket knife in my 59 Buick. Also in one buick we bought it had the spare parts from hell in the trunk... 3 sets of buick drums.. a set of finned valve covers.. and a wack of rusty car jacks??? WTF? AHAHAH!

Those drums will come in Handy!

 

In a 64 Falcon ,i found a 1952 Passport for Hawaii(actually got in touch with the gal and gave it back)30 years later!!
I bought a 1974 Buick off a relative, under the carpet ,under the seat was a 1949 road atlas(mint) for N America.
(he was the original owner and swore it wasn't his)?!?!
When i was a kid, i had a thing for Eagles and Hawks,so.... in a 1979 T-bird i found a Zippo lighter
with MY name and an Eagle engraved on it!

 

damn!! all i ever find is rat turds.

 

Pulled the back seat out of an old Holden and found a FU KEN BIG SSNNAKE! Not cool near pissed my pants!

 

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some girl the previous owner had stuffed in there...
Creepy

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That'd take some effort!

All I've ever found is old change, busted fuses and dustbunnies... I hate pulling old carpet!

 

a stack of maps and registrations from the fifties in a '50 Stude

and a Woodworkers Union of Tacoma pin from 1937 in my '35 Dodge

from when people were dieing to establish workers rights.

Paul

 

Well I bought a 75 Vega Wagon for the steering box for 40.00 and in the fender well I found a stubby Snap On ratchet. Paid for the car itself. My dad found a real cool old bible in a old ranch wagon. He found some other cool stuff but can't remember what else. Somethings poeple leave behind amaze me.

 

Well two things are pretty cool that I found....the first was when taking out the sean in my 1965 Tbird...I found sandwiched and glued to the bottom of the seat frame...a 1964 quarter...I figured it was there since the car was put together....

This other one is way cool and a bit puzzling....My brother has this 48 Chrysler that was sitting outside the house one day and it was raining pretty hard...(he wanted the car in the garage because the trunk leaked...but the garage was recently filled with some crap I had brought home and it wouldn't fit) When the rain stopped he ran out to dry out the trunk and was screaming mad because the trunk floor was now a bit bowed....He thought the rain had messed his shit up. Well after pulling all the crap out of the car and lifting this cardboard piece he found this big celefane/ceranwrap sqare...about 25"x25"....He took the plastic wrap off and found that in the trunk had been the blueprints of the Andrea Doria...and some other boat/ship that we knew nothing about...We had thought that the car had been a staff car for some time...but have no idea how that got in there...but its way cool. I think my brother has some of it framed.
Tim
MBL

 

RocketJ2 left his gay porn mags under the seat of my Chevy.

Other than that, most of my old heaps bring new and crusty tools, odd coins, gum and candy wrappers, baseball cards, and the like to the mix. Sometimes a music cassette or two!

But, when the Piece Of Shit stole my Monte Carlo SS and smashed it running from the cops (only to have Detroit's Second Precinct and criminal loving "prosecutor" Mike Duggan let him off scott-free), he left all sorts of his personal items in my car...including the keys to about 15 other stolen GM G-bodies! I got his tools, tapes, some money, sun glasses and a box of .38 ammo. (The cops did such a good job of searching the car!).

Funny thing was, the Stupid Fuck had the nerve to ask the cop in charge of the "investigation" to ask me if he could have his stuff back. I told the cop he was more than welcome to it...he knows where he stole the car from, so just tell him to come on over and knock on the door. For some reason, the cop wasn't willing to do that?!

 

I bet you'd like to give him the ammo back, at least part of it!

 

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Aw, I'd have been a sport...he coulda had ALL his hollowpoints back...one at a time!

 

A long time ago we found a 1951 Los Angeles Times newspaper in the door of my 32 Roadster, I guess this was common practice when building a car back then.



"New Steel Still Ain't Real"

 

When i got my lil 73 Gremlin'don't laugh' i looked in the glove compartment and found a early 60's pristine map of Tampa Bay with old bridge the one that a ship hit back in the early 80's?and killed a shitload of people it was kinda eerie as the last time i went thorught Tampa bay the ends of the bridge were still there and nothing in the middle. I found out that one of the survivors can't go on the new skyway bridge becuase if he does he starts puking so whoever drives him across they have to blindfold him when they go over it and most of the time he still pukes

 

Sixcarb...This 32 roadster????
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With these 1951 L.A. Times and L.A. Mirror newspapers???
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The car was sold in a Pennsylvania auction about 1980.

 

When I went to pick up the '53 from the tool that owned it he kindly removed all of his empty baggies and papers, as well as 30-40 empty cigerrete boxes.

When I got it home and started taking the interior out I found his unfinished bags as well as a good size rock he hadn't got to smoke yet.

I bought a Honda from the impound auction once and found a nice chrome plated 9mm stuffed in the dash and about 60 bucks. I kept the gun and ended up investing the 60 dollars back in to car so I could drive it.