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

a lid is a 1970's term for a $10 bag of marijuana

2 fingers is the measurement for how tall the weed is in the bag

back in the day, a good one was a 4 finger lid

before the term 'lid' it was called a 'can' on the west coast

 

"HOW to DRIVE for WOMEN" ? Holy fuck, my wife has a heavier right foot that I do. I hat eto lte HER have the WHEELS & ACCELERATOR!!!

 

D'Bruce said: One time our dad saw them up on the barn and asked what the hell we were doing. My brother told him that we were drying them out to use the stems to tie our 'fort' together that we were building. Man I remember that shit, it was better than chewing tabaky! (grown)

Damn! You and your brother were QUICK fer kidz! You fooled your dad & went on to become RESEARCHERS in the proper uses of such things, correct?<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

 

i found the original owners guide, accessory guide and warranty book with protecto plate dated 6/6/66 all in the original plastic chevrolet bag. in my 66 impala wagon.

guy who bought it new in anaheim california is/was the baliff here in town (north central wv) about 20 years ago.

 

A 17yr old virgin! But that's for aother thread,LOL.....

 

Had a 31 Model A, went into the right front door to fix the window and found a flight schedule from the Hershey, Pa. Airport dated 1931 and an old partial newspaper with some ads from that era. Not that exciting but the fact that this stuff was untouched for 75 years added to finding this car that had hay in it and was pulled out of a barn.

 

i found an old indian firefighters backpack and the front page of a los angeles times with the headline "WIN AT NAPLES" from WWII in the door of my granddads 31 roadster. kinda explains the custom dash and 32 axle, im assuming it was originally a war era hot rod

 

i looked in my car after reading this post and all i found was rust

 

This is a really cool thread -- laff yer ass off all the time!

Has anybody checked? THIS threaad started in 2004! WOW. Good theme, just won't die!

 

Elpollacko was going to buy a '61 Caddy a few years ago, and while investigating stuff we got the trunk open and found about a dozen bottles of very upscale gin. Had been there since the car was relatively new!

 

Ha Ha Ha !

 

My first ex-wife was very cool and I met her cruising the White Castle parking lot in '63 Valiant. ( see avatar).

 

This thread makes me want to hide something in my car for someone to find decades from now.

 

My ex-wife??

 

I did mention the two fingers i found in the mangled wreck didn't I? yuck, guess they didn't have time to find every little piece.

 

when my uncle died i got his 69 dodge d-100, while cleaning it out i ran across several roach clips no weed though but the best part was a title to a 1946 ford pickup, but no one knows where that truck is

 

Not really cool but under the seat of my just purchased T-Buck i found the DUI booking papers of the prior owner (he had told me he got a DUI in the car).

 

I towed an old Oldsmobile a few years back. Picked it up in the dark and never looked it over. In the daylight, I discoverd an artificial leg in the trunk.

It was really old and weathered, covered with medical tape and a pad for the stump. Funny but creepy for some reason.

I checked into it but all I could find out was that it belonged to a guy from Winthrop, MN who had passed on but wasn't buried with the leg.

Gave the thing to a relative with a twisted sense of humor who uses it at Halloween.

 

Found alot of cool stuff in a 47 fleetline that i got from a fellow hamber, here is just a few things, i also found a few old bottles, 2 of the old dr. pepper bottles with the old clock logo on it, found an old annes beverage bottle.

When i pulled in a 65 ford galaxie i found 4 different sets of license plates, large scale, a postage scale, and a military issue night stick...

 

I found what looked like most of the bones from a cat in the smuggler's box on my El Camino. Maybe the skull will be in there somewhere?
I love this thread.

 

I pulled the driver`s seat out of my `36 Cad. Limo and found that a disgruntled employee at Fleetwood had written "Rich A$$-hole" on the divider.

 

I worked at a restoration shop back in the day. This customer who was in his early 70's wanted to restore a 57' T-Bird because he had one when he was in his mid 20's. It was the first car he ever bought new. He looked around for a decent car to restore for years. Well, in the process he found his original car. It was badly rusted, but he didn't care. Obviously, the sentimental value made it worth while. Afer the body came back from the acid dipper, a hot wheel was found under the dash area that belonged to his son. He remembered his son losing it when he was a child. The car was only a few years old at the time. The old man was pretty happy.

 

Hot wheels cars were not introduced until '68 so it was probably a Matchbox car.

 

A friend of mine owned a rod shop and needed some SBC engines for a couple of cars. We went to a towing auction and bought 3 cars. A Malibu Wagon, 4 door and a 80 Cutlass. We Hotwired them and played smash up derby in the industrial area with them. The looks were priceless from the people standing at the train station watching these cars crashing right in front of them. When we got back to the shop we broke into the trunk of the Cutlass and found a book "How to enlarge your penis". It was over 100 pages and had very detailed pictures. We played pranks with the shop next door. They were on vacation for the week, so we shoved the book through mailslot in the front door so that it was face up for everyone to see. It was fun watching the reactions of people walking up to the door, realizing that they were closed, then seeing that book on the floor.

 

This thread is bringing back a lot of memories.

I was dismantling a 50 ford 2 door for my boss and found a cardboard candy box under the seat. It had a bunch of proto tools, some oil and a fire extinguisher that looked like a hand grenade. I still have the extinguisher. The battery had the caps off and the car had not ran since the early 70's but when I pressure washed the car, water got into the battery and the clock started to work.

 

Bought a 58 dodge one owner car that had sat parked since the 70's and found about $28 worth of silver coins throughout the interior...along with too many to count brown recluse spiders. Had to bug bomb car.

Bought and old 68 dodge pickup in a farm auction that had the bed full of junk in it...after loading it up went by car wash to start tossing bed crap and found two bushell baskets (rotten of course) full of indian arrowheads and artifacts. Sold almost all of them years ago for almost 4x's what bought truck for.

 

...found a pussy in my back seat once. This may not be a first though.

 

Non-rusted steel.............................

 

If anyone has ever found empty soda cans in the doors of your 56 Chevy's, my dad might have put some of them there when he worked on the line back in the day. He used to tell me stories of all the stuff they would toss in the open areas of the cars on the assembly line before all the panels were put in.

 

I had a 56 Chrysler that was used for storing mail, boxes, books, ect. for a long time untill I bought it. When I was cleaning it out I started a fire in a 55 gal drum to dispose of the old books, and the last one I threw in the fire turned out to be a copy of Mein Kampf.