I found the top dash piece and a tire tool in the floor of my brother 29 a sedan under about 6 inches of mud.
I found a condom wrapper and a note that said, "When this mime blows up her balloon, POP IT!". Still ain't figured that one out yet..
Nothing German or WWII about that- it's just a Taurus PT92 or Beretta 92 is all- most likely a Beretta on account of the eurotrash heel mag release. All equally deadly in Canada, I guess... Never found anything interesting that I can remember, but the Mexican Federales found a bunch of spent brass and 1919 and Ma Deuce links under the mud and shit in my buddy's truck when we were coming back North once- luckily it was so fucking hot that they just wanted us to leave so they could shut down the roadblock and go back into the AC in their trucks. Needless to say once I knew we were free and in the clear I beat his fucking ass for not sanitizing his ride.
My seats were shot in a Firebird I was driving and my Gramps offered to redo them. I had just cleaned the car and when we (my grandpa and I) pulled the seats out I found 6 condom wrappers… I was only 16 and my Grandpa just looked at me funny. The bad thing is they weren’t mine and the po was not a good looking lady…
Someday someone will find the freakin' needlenose pliers I lost in my 32' this morning! I'm putting in somne new seats, and I was using them to attach a spring to the seat adjuster, and where they went from there I haven't a clue. I tore the damned car apart looking for them, and nowhere to be found! Really wierd...... I get a real kick out of this thread every time it pops up! Unbelievable some of the shit you guys have found! My only found story is when I had my 72' Chevelle, the drivers side window wouldn't crank up and down properly. I took the door apart and found about 20 sanding disks, a couple of shop rags, and about a pound of sandblasting sediment! Cleaned it all out and the window worked fine! That brown recluse story rang a bell. A friends of mines dad's truck was infested with those little bastards a few years ago and had bit my buddies son twice. Those things are nasty! They let off about 5 pesticide bombs in that thing, and there were still live one's running around! Poor old bastard got killed on I-95 last year....We have black widows here too, and they are becoming more common. I almost put my hand on one outside our favorite local ice cream store last summer and it scared the hell out of me. One of the girls that worked there came out and drenched that thing with ammonia, and it ran off unscathed!
Whenever I open up a wall for any home repair, I always leave something behind,usually Sunday paper funnies,hot wheels or 2, Empty perfume bottle or other such junk. Have never opened up a wall in an old house without finding something. Once was helping my brother-in law do some lath and plaster repair and we found all kinds of stuff stuck in the wall including a personal letter from the local Ford dealer giving the homeowner quotes on the new Model Ts. That got framed and is still hanging in their entryway.
The craziest thing I've found in an old car, (early 50's) was a German World War bayonet. It had dropped down into the lower rear quarter past the trunk floor. It was still in the sheath. Haven't found anything to top that yet.
I found this 1945 California keychain pinched between the dash and cowl of my 31 Roadster. It's my 31 keychain now.
I bought a running '68 Caddy 4dr for $25 about 15 years ago with plans of putting the motor in my '46 Ford truck. We drove it home, parked it out back and pulled the battery out of it. About 3 months later I stuck a battery in it and pulled it around to the front of the shop to pull the motor. There was no trunk key so my buddy ripped the lock out and opened the trunk. Inside was a polished BBC crossram intake with 2 Holley 600 carbs in really nice shape. Best thing I ever found in a car.
Back in about 75 I bought a 62 Ford van for 300.00, someone had mounted a shelf above the windshield with carpet covering it, when I pulled the carpet down to mount my stereo their was a turquoise nugget necklace and a bag of weed, sold the necklace and enjoyed the weed. Spike
My dad was a car dealer, and my bowling ball came out of the trunk of a car we reposessed back in the early eighties.
I have found lots of things in vehicles,. working on them and checking them out in the junkyards(for change). But ,the most thing I remember is; 'gettin my first nut' ,in a 46' Lincoln. Yeah; I'm gettin up there!.
My uncle was a tow truck operator in the 60s and 70s. The police didnt have an impound lot so when a car got impounded it went to the tow companies lot. Some of the shit they pulled, makes you wonder how they got away with it. They took in a car one time that a guy had been driving drunk in. the cops took him in to sleep it off and let him go in the morning(different time back then) Well he had just got tires put on his car when he had gotten pinched. They took his tires off and put on 4 old bald ass POS tires. when the guy came in the next morning all he said was " I coulda swore i got new tires yesterday." and let it go at that. They gave the tires to my Grand pa.
Around 1989 was hanging out at my friends father's junkyard. They had just gotten in a running 66 Falcon Ranchero. They found porn under the seat and a 3 ft long dildo! I can never look at those cars without thinking of that. Needless to say I don't think I will ever own one.
At the same place my uncle towed a car for the cops for some lil BS something. And when he was inspecting the car he found one of those BIG black garbage backs full of pot in the trunk. He kept it of course. Used some of it, and left the rest in the trunk of his car in the bag. His son was going to school in Alabama and my uncle let him borrow his car(he forgot about the weed in the trunk) well my uncle never saw that bag again. Never asked about it either LOL.
Oh they would also siphon gas out of the tanks. Just all round shitty things to do but it sure is entertaining to listen too. There service/salvage man used to keep one of those big water jugs full of teh change he stole out of the cars. They said he was so good, and small, that he could get in the trunk and come out of the enginebay.
I know its not a hamb car but I got my 68 Firebird towed home i started pulling the interior and various mice out of it. When i picked up the rear seat I found a 4.5 foot copper head snake!! He was pretty pissed at me for messing up his house.
I lost my Virginity in the back seat of a 55 Belair If someone finds it let me know Then I bought a 65 Olds of Ebay and had it shipped to the house. There was a " Hotwired" ignition switch wired up with long wires laying in the floorboard and you could use a screw driver to start the car. Well after I removed all that crap and removed the original dash ignition switch and replaced it. I happened to pull out the ash tray from the dash and there taped to the bottom of the ash tray was the ORIGINAL MISSING KEY
I bought a '31 Model A coupe body that had been sitting in a field in Chino Ca. for many years. Under the seat was part of a large bone. Bigger then any animal that I know of. I'm thinking a human Femur. Now remember that this car was around during the depression era. Did somebody get rubbed out? I'm calling it the Bone Crusher Coupe.
"Around 1989 was hanging out at my friends father's junkyard. They had just gotten in a running 66 Falcon Ranchero. They found porn under the seat and a 3 ft long dildo! I can never look at those cars without thinking of that. Needless to say I don't think I will ever own one" The ranchero pr the dildo
My brother found a old 30' essex sedan in a feild and inside were hundreds of plaster dental impressions. It was like plaster castings from the original molds of peoples teeth. He thought they were bottoms jaws or something when he first saw them. Kinda freaky.
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