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

very old meatgrinder...

 

Found a small old pocket knife that is shaped like a bowling pin in the rear window well of my 51 Chevy.

Many years ago, my step-dad bought a 52 Suburban/Carryall from a police impound lot. While we were ripping out the interiour we found a paper bag with 5 joints in it that was stuffed up in the headliner area. Im pretty sure he kept them!

 

A 1937 penny under the seat of my 1937 Chevy truck I built in high school.

 

When I pulled up the coffin roller board in my hearse to lay some carpet in the back, I found some press on nails... I shitload of old dried funeral flowers, some funky plane tickets from the early seventies, hair, and a complete set of hub caps for a late fifties cad.

When I pulled up the back seat in my 56 Cad, I found two mouse nests the size of watermellons, and lying under that was a dead cat or ratcoon. Another one climbed into the engine compartment and died on the intake and must have layed there for a while, because it turned to liquid and pretty much ruined everything. There was an old 60's time magazine too....

Do those count as cool?

 

When I first got my Chevy, there was a perfect little mouse skeleton on the rear floor carpet. It looked like a miniature version of a dinosaur fossil trapped in rock!

 

No we have had the car since 66, it was built in North Hollywood in 52,

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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.

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When Rashy bought Mama Rash's 59 chevy we were cleaning it out and under the dash in a little pill case were two little white rocks of crack.

Somewhere out there there's an entire circus running itself...

monkey

 

A factory Broadcast under the seatcovers for my 68 Mustang.

 

Got a Bobcat from a police auction in the early 80's for $65. I found $1200 and 2000 quaaludes in the trunk. Yeah the cops really knew how to search a car. The stuff was cleverly hidden inside a large brown paper bag. As a matter of fact the bag was the only thing in the trunk. No spare, no jack. I gave the pills to the cops and kept the cash. I found a switchblade in the trunk of a beetle and a fat bag of weed crammed in the dash of a Rabbit. When I was a teenager I had an old Dodge beater that one day the driver's door fell off when I opened it (it had always sagged). Apparently a former owner had dropped his spare change between the door and the glass. There was more than $90 inside the door mostly in pennies.

 

Well...I don't know how "cool" it is...but there was a dead python in the trunk of my Tbird that I discovered after bringing it home. Thank god it had passed the maggot stage and was dried up.

 

so far every car I have bought has come with a cool pair of shades. They always seem to be the big mirrored cop kind. I have also found a palm piolet, when I asked the guy if he wanted it back he said he hated that thing. I also found a couple of joints in the checker I got from my step dad.

 

When I brought home my 56 Ford Sedan Delivery, I tore all the rotted wood out of the back. In the section that is not accessable, I found a complete McPhereson pin up calender from 1947. The folds had rotted just a little bit so I carefully cut all the sheets into singles and framed every one. They still hang in my house today.

By far, it is one of the coolest things I have ever found in a car or elsewhere.

 

when i was 16, i found a chrome 357 in an old 70's van at the junkyard. my buddy who was with me told his dad, and he took it away from me. probably a good thing!

i was cleaning up some wiring on an early 90's accord for the local police auction, radio was gone as well as most of the cars electronics, and in between the carpet and the floor where it was cutout for a shifter, i found 680.00 bux all in 10's and 20's.

had a customer come in with an 85 nissan hardbody pickup, wore out little truck. bad radio, old man who bought it had just left from the guy he bought it from. he wanted a cheap radio and a set of speakers. opened the glove box for something and there sat the fattest brick of pot i've ever seen. it was a monster. the old guy 'bout had a heart attack when i asked him if he knew about it. he asked if i would throw it away for him, "yes,sir" i replied.
the customer is always right!!

 

Someone will find Hope Hazelwood's little white panties between the header panel and roof of my old '32 five window someday.

 

Found a .38 with tape wrapped around the butt and half a pint of Tijuana rotgut in the drivers side door panel of a 1968 LeMans.

Local "fun things to do" map to New Bedford, CT from 1966 in my 1965 Fairlane.

 

Pulled a 1966 Toronado out of an old hog barn, the 425 only had 35,000 miles on it but the rats in the barn had chewed the living shit out of everything else. No keys but the farmer insisted that if I wanted it it had to be gone by sundown. Got it home to the shop and after trying to get the trunk open through the rustholes in the body, popped it with a crowbar. Inside the trunk, full to the edges, 1970's and 80's porno mags. What the rats hadn't used for nesting materials were actually in pretty good shape. And the prior owner must have had quite a taste for the stuff because most were imported from England. Awoke a couple of rats during the cleaning. Bought the car for $20 bucks and sold the supposedly "rare" porn to some head shop for $400. Not bad for a days work.

 

A 1949 Fresno High School class ring. Perfect condition. I found it in a 51 Merc. It had the initials JSW inscribed inside. I wanted to see if I could get it back to the original owner so I called the Fresno paper to see if they had or could dig up an old yearbook or something. They weren’t interested. Too much work and not an interesting enough story.

 

Well, when I cleaned my 38 pickup I found a gum wrapper that I have found out to be from the 40's. That's pretty much it other then the pistachio shells, old towel and the 50 ford radio.

 

The dead body in the trunk! j/k!

Seriously, when I found my Merc it was in storage from 25+ years. Found coins and a match book in the art deco ashtray. Oh, and the radio still worked perfectly!

 

56 Desoto : found a pack of matches underneath the dash, On top of the glovebox. They were from Circle K, but they have this cool little cartoon of a red haired kid with a slingshot in his back pocket on the back.

50 Buick: Half a ticket from the SLC UT Drive In.

 

In the 70s my uncle owned a pretty good size junk yard. I would immediatly rip the back seats, and plunder through all the cars coming in, found many pocket knives, tons of change, and the little 1/4 inch Matco ratchet that I still use today. Now all I find is rat turds.

 

I had the right rear door? Panel out of a 65 GTO I had and found a pen, it said office pen by fisher on the side of it.Some logo as Body by Fisher, its kind of a teal green. Dude installing seats and stuff must have lost it.

 

I found a brand new motor mount under the back seat in my Comet, just so happens that I need the motor mount too. I also found a Jack in the Box wrapper from the 70s under the front seat of the same car. I haven't really dug through the rest of the car much yet, I will probably find some more stuff under the house carpet some jerk put in it.

 

My wife.
I was in an old car when I found her and I'm still in old cars.

 

Count me in with the nothing but mouse poop crowd, somebody had beat me to the ripping out carpet fun, damn!

 

In the glove box of the 50 dodge truck I have I found a card that tells you what to do if there is a air raid.

 

Under the back seat of a '36 Chev I found a gold watch fob dated 1915 from the Pan Pacific International Expo. It's a y shape with a "coin" in the middle. One side has a bear standing, the other the bear is on all fours, give the "coin" a spin and the bears look like they are fucking.

 

not me but a buddy found my wallet from high school, another buddy had a 68 Bonneville in high school back in 74. well it was sold a bunch of times & i guess no one pulled the back seat out this whole time.. fast forward to 1998, a buddy called & asked if i had lost my wallet. when i ask why he told me he had it in his hand & would be over in a little bit.... i couldnt believe it was mine, let alone there was my drivers license & $5 still in it.....joe

 

Oh yea and never expect to find cool shit in an old car you buy from a HAMBer. They're all picked clean.

 

I found some old Newspapers, used for Insulation on a 48 chevy....

When i was trimming this bucket body, a shit load of dirt fell out, including a old Cigar Rapper , with the year 1962.