I found a cool 50s 7up bottle in a 46 Ford,the bottle had a picture of a girl and bubbles,I kept the bottle,sold the car!
Found a Corvette valve cover in a Checker Marathon that someone gave me to scrap out. Looked for the other one but no luck!
Found a few onld pennies, a note pad, a used up pencil, a few cool old TV tubes, a receipt for the tv tubes, and best of all....the build sheet!
I drug home a 49 ford 4 door and found a cute squirrel rotting under the back seat. I wish I would have found money...
I got a little of everything and more when I got the bus home. It was used for storage. Clothes, religious materials, old bank statements from the 70's, garden hose, electric heater from the 50's, hoe, crank bearings, valves, lots of church keys, beer bottle tops, pop bottles, etc. You name it . Some cool stuff some not so cool, but kind of a time capsule, Still finding stuff as I take it apart.
i part out 61-72 trucks to make my hotrod money. in 25 years doing this all i've ever found was dope, a couple guns, porn and the occasional folding bill. a couple years back i bought a clean old "GRANPA TRUCK" AT AUCTION. took all the good stuff off, and thought the front seat looked pretty clean for use. pulled the seat and was suprised to see a small manila envelope with a clear oval window in it. IBGD! it was benny franklin staring back! turns out it was 3600.00 in c-notes, none later than 78. spent most of it on hotrod parts over the next six months, the little woman was none the wiser. "YOU PULL THAT AGAIN AND I'LL BRAID YOUR TITS!"
I've been buying and selling cars since I was 12, ( I still have my first one, a 48 Ford 2 door ), I have cleaned out more things than I can remember. I bought a $50.00 car and got $100 pen, used it for 12 years and finally lost it somewhere. I bought this old truck and the bed was full of things, so I hopped in to clean it out and the "stuff" started moving, scared the crap out of me, so I hopped back out!! Turned out to be a family of coons living in the cab and bed. Took a little work to get them to leave home. Just recently I bought a 51 Ford pickup up on the high line off the reservation. It had one of those old Ben Franklin fireplaces in the back along with a lot of other junk. Well I would have liked to thrown it all off in the yard right there but the old lady I bought the truck from was right there as I loaded it, so I just winched it on the trailer and went home. I called her up and made a deal on a couple more cars and she said fine come on back and pick them up. So my daughter and I swung through a couple weeks later and paid for a couple more cars and started loading them up when a Federal Marshall pulled in the field and ask my identification. On the reservation the FBI. has to deal with problems like this. It turns out the lady accused me of stealing the old stove and wanted it back or be paid for it. I lucked out and cut a deal for $50. to avoid a return trip of 200 miles to go to court and settle it. Tim
I'm with Concrete B. It is obviously your lucky penny, and as such, you should incorporate into the car again. Maybe you could affix it to the go pedal and just step on it all the time?
Found a live possum under the seat of a 50 Chevy truck i was dismantling 10 years ago.The truck had been sitting in a pasture since 73 .I hauled it 60 miles back on a trailer to my house .The possum was coming out from under the seat at night and shitting on the seat top.I thought a cat was getting in there at night and doing the deed but couldnt figure out how the cat was getting in the cab with all the glass in it.When i pulled the seat bottom up surprise (more like scared me to death when i saw its teeth in my face) .Mainly becuase i had been sticking my hands under the seat the day before while cleaning it out.He was no match for a crow bar ...
Hi Dowies, Posting #130 on this thread... Appears that your little license plate is a very old version of those items that the DAV (Disabled American Veterans) sent out once a year (usually 2 in a pack) as a fund raising project. They send out those address stickers nowdays, due to the expense. Kind of cool to see your old one... A little piece of automotive history.. Thanks, duane
LMFAO!! HAHAHA!! Aint that the truth. You know, it would be pretty cool to sink that penny into some clear resin and make a shift knob out of it.
I'm building a 1931 model a sedan and the other night I found a class ring that was in between the steel and the wood floor boards it is a 1957 Maine Township HighSchool Class Ring. Did some looking and found that Main twsp school is up around Chicago and that is where I picked the car up from.
If you contact the school (if still open) they might be able not only to find the owner of the ring, but you could probably find some interesting history on your car.
In my `49 Pick-up I just scooped, I found a checkbook full of blank checks! Since the guy is dead now, I am going to fund my build with them. I hope no one wants to see my I.D. Anyone got any parts they want to sell that'll take a check? LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I am just kidding about using the checks and in no way would I attempt to pass one of these checks for legal tender. Use of said checks may cause rectal bleeding, erectile disfunction, depression and premature heart failure all due to incarceration.
What insects make these tubes? Can they be dissolved or lossened somehow? I have an outboard motor that was in storage a long time. It has tubes that look a lot like these in the water jackets. I have knocked some of then free but i can't get to them all. If I could loosen them somehow I could flush them out without disasssembling the motor.
Those are mud-dobbers, they look like a hornet, but they don't sting, we have plenty of them in Alabama. Your vehicle could have come from Dixieland, I never saw them in the Northeast. By the look of the tubes they were made of red clay, which is found mainly in the southern states, get your garden-hose out and wash them away.
Must be something else then. This is an O/B boat motor that has never left the northeast. Also, whatever it is is hard as a rock. Flushing does not remove them and they have to be physically broken apart. There are some deep in the block I cannot reach without taking the power head apart. Was hoping that maybe something like a weak acid would loosen them up.
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