Interesting things you've found in cars

When my dad first bought the (now mine) '37 coupe, we found the key knockouts wired to the speedo cable under the dash. There was also a wheat penny and a silver brooch or hat pin under the seat.

There is a '37 wheat penny on a piece of monofilament hanging from the rear view. I like to think it is the same penny, but I don't really know where it came from. I didn't find it in the car until after he died, so I guess I'll never know.

A good friend of mine used to own a junkyard. Every time I asked him were he got something, the answer was always "I found it in the back of a car." He found the coolest stuff in cars.

Slonaker

 

HMMM... dad and g-pa brought home a wrecked lincoln from the STL auto auction years ago, it had $300+ and a switchblade in a cigar box under the seat.maybe its the same car......still got the knife and the cigar box.

 

A Guy I know from the local Toyota Land Cruiser Club here in town bought a 86’ 4 Runner from a local wrecking yard here in Vegas. When he got it to his house I was helping him strip it out to sell off some of the part he didn’t need. We found a large can of WD-40, well it was one of those hide a cans, pack to the rim with meth. Hell there was enough meth in that can to keep the whole HAMB up for a week. We turned it in to the proper authorities.

 

hmm, always find a wrench stuck to the floor under the back seat. found a vintage aluminum intake for the flathead in my latest car. lol we pulled my budys latest "find" home and were going threw it and after finaly getting the trunk open trying to see if it even had a trunk we found piles and piles of 60s playboys and other porno mags lol almost completely filled the trunk. couldnt afford lowering blocks so he used what he had to get the rear down??

 

My friend found a pair of lace panties behind the kick panel once. I guess it was stashed as a trophy.

 

I bought a '95 Chevy pick-up from a preachers son,and when I was cleaning it out a year later to go camping,my son found a bunch of porn behind the seat.I almost had to fight him to get it away from him!He was 11 then,I would've fought my dad too.

 

All I ever find is RUST!!!!

 

In 1976 an impound driver in Pittsburgh Pa. found 26lbs. of weed in the back seat of a '70 dodge dart............

 

Bought a 66 Shelby several years ago from the 4th owner that told me that the original owner decided to use a shotgun to remove his head in the car about 1968, thought he was full of shit until we restored it...lot of little BB's rolling around the interior under the carpet. Guess that explaines the Repo back window eh...

 

In the early 80's, my young son and I were junkyard scrounging and he came across a $20 bill, and another, and another, and another. We knew there had to be more around. We found a tire iron and started popping trunks. Hang on boys........in the trunk of a smashed Mercury was........$12,800......all in $20's.

 

i just found some nudie playin cards in my old 50chevy
my 53 chevy found all kinds of adds and circled classified adds for the local jack shack........someone got a happy ending

 

I had the seat removed from a '73 Chevy truck several years ago. For some reason, I pulled the fiber board at the back of the cab. Behind it was a Penthouse Forum magazine, same month and year the truck was built. I figure someone almost got caught reading at the assembly plant and stashed it.

 

This onetime we had a used car guy bring in a couple ex fbi cars both were dodge durangos. I found a telescoping night stick and a tazer. and 9mm bullets
wish i kept them.

And once a used car came in that was wrecked cuz it was in a high speed chase and i found a bullet lodged in the head liner and behind it was a peice of someones skull. yea pretty sick.

 

Found a blasting cap once under the rear seat of a 56 chev four dr, took it down to the creek put it on a log and detonated it with a shotgun, Opened the door on my stude truck and had a bowling ball roll out and almost land on my toe

 

i always seem to find loose change from the years the cars were made. my favorite piece is a silver quarter and dime i found in a gto. ive also found mirrors,viles and baggies from....ya know

 

Complete set of Craftsman metric sockets........in a toolbox.

 

When I was fresh out of high school I was wanting a VW bus. My buddy told me of one that was stashed out in the woods behind his old house. Said he used to play around it as a kid. We went and looked at it and knocked on the owner's door. Old hippy dude, had moved to GA from CA, the motor blew and it was pulled out and parked in the woods. It still had black plates on it, and was full of old furntiture and junk and it had the wildest hippy curtains I'd ever seen. He said I could buy it after he cleaned it out.

I had it towed home and was washing it out and under the rubber mat I found a hand-blown glass steamroller-style weed pipe. It's old as hell, the bus had sat for 20+ years behind the farm house.

Other than that, nothing really interesting...Once when I was hunting VW parts in the local junkyard, I popped my head into an old school bus and it was full of VW crap. I thought I won the lottery!! Some old repair shop had cleaned house and filled the bus to get scrap money. I hauled out all kinds of stuff that day.

 

Good God, I could write a book on this subject. I'm sure repoman is in the same boat.

Here's a good one. Back when I was in the repo business I picked up this kids car & it had a crack pipe under the seat. I left it there, I didn't want to touch it.

So the kid comes in with his mom who's a cop, in uniform. She's throwing her "badge weight" around trying to get us to give him his stuff without charging him by issuing veiled threats, and he asks about his speakers. I advise him that they are part of the car and therefore they stay. He then tells me that he needs to see if something is out there that he can't find. we pop the hatch and he pulls out a little pen knife and pokes a hole in each rear speaker and gets a smug little grin on his face and says "If I can't have 'em, no one can".

Haha, you got me kid. But now it's my turn.

So I go around to where the crack pipe is located, and kick it out from under the seat and say "hey officer, looks like we've got a CRACK HEAD here, I think you should arrest him". He gets this look on his face like I'd just kicked him in the nuts. His mom comes around with a bewildered look on her face, and I point to it and say "that's right mom, your son is a crackhead. Now do your job and arrest him". She starts mumbling about how she's off duty, and I say to her "Oh, so you were a cop inside when you wanted something, but now that your out here and we've established the fact that your son needs to be arrested, you're off duty??? That's very convenient officer, but it sounds like bullshit to me."

At this point she apologizes for wasting my time and herds her son away to the car and leaves.

I've found things in repo cars that would make your hair stand on end. Drugs, guns, porn, you name it. I once repossessed a car that the whole floor was covered in live maggots. Another time I was following one of my guys who was driving a car we'd just picked up. We came to a stop, and as soon as the car stopped, and I'm not exaggerating one bit, a HUGE wave of cockroaches comes piling out from under the trunk lid and engulfs the whole rear end of the car. I'm talking THOUSANDS of them. It was gross.

 

Aside from old newspaper clippings, the only thing I found in my 55 f-100 was an old 6 volt drop light. I assume it was 6 volt was because one, it had ends to fit battery terminals and two, the light bulb was about the size of those old christmas lights with the screw in bulb. I still have it somewhere.

 

My dad wheeled and dealed cars all of his life. In that time he found 1 Rattlesnake, 1 Rolex Watch, a couple dead coons, and about $10 grand in cash. I have only found spare change and cheap tools though.

 

Well, I can't match some of these stories but... I did used car inspections at 2 different dealerships for over 8 years. And I have seen alot!!! People leave the weirdest stuff in their cars when they trade 'em in. I found a bunch of the usual, CD's, money (mostly coins), flash lights, umbrellas. BUt I've also found bibles, bowling balls, kids underwear (clean I hope) false teeth (ick!!!) and oh yeah I once found, how can I put this.... an adult toy (veriable speed). In talking to the salesman, the wife of the person that traded in that last one was a pretty hot dish!!

 

last year i was pulling the fender off my 53 ford when a hear something hit the shop floor .thinking it was a wrench or something.i look down and see a zippo lighter.it was pretty rough but would still open.i showed it to my mom .she smiles and tells me she bought that lighter for my dad for his birthday.( 1979)a few weeks later i show it to my dad and he says " passenger fender right?"he said he he was working on the car and lost it ....i keep it in the ash tray.i figure it rode around in that fender without falling out for all those years .i might as well keep it with the car. karma ....

 

Lots of the usual stuff, tools, old papers, coins etc... The best was in High School I had a buddy who was a Javelin freak. I found him a 68 that this old guy from up north had and he only wanted $150.00. Car was real clean but supposedly had a head gasket leak. We get the car to his house and the driver side window won't roll up all the way. He throws some plastic over it and calls it good. Well since his finances were pretty limited it sat for quite a while and of course got rained in a few times. Well we're out screwing around with it one day and I notice a 32 little plants growing in the floorboard carpet behind the drivers seat. We get to lookin and there pretty small but they sure look like weed. We call a buddy of ours who was very well versed in such things and he says "yep, I'll give ya $100.00 bucks for em" Of course Scott sold it to him. He just cut out the carpet they were growing in and took it like that. The best part is the next year another crop sprung up from the jute backing that was under the carpet. I think he got $ 75 bucks for that crop. WE still laugh about that car.

 

I bought an '87 audi from an insurance auction once. A friend and I were cleaning it out and I found a PILE of Valtrex (herpie meds) in the glove box! Never seen 2 guys get out of a car so fast in my life! Way back when a dude thats older than me knew a guy that bought an early 70's chevelle with a shag interior..... well him and his ol lady did it in the back seat and the next day they were all itchy and acusing each othe of cheating! Turns out they caugt crabs from the shag!!!!!!!!!

Oh and another car we bougt for a demo derby had a whole CASE of the big tubes of KY jelly in the trunk!

 

Ugh, When I first looked at this thread I was only thinking of project cars. Repo cars are the craziest. The maggot cars always fucked me up. Repoguy, that roach car would have sent me running down the street. I'm a big pussy around bugs.

Once I picked up a car that had a live dog in the trunk. I didn't open it until I got to the yard. I had no idea what I would find. Sure enough, it was a grumpy Pit Bull. My boss had cops come to the yard before we opened it. I made them hold their guns down to give it a chance. The dog was scared, and hot, and hungry. I had some water ready to give him right away and we made instant friends. Poor guy had bite marks all over his legs and head likely from the last fight.

Once we filled a BIG Hefty bad with sex toys -LOL. Sorry I wasn't at the office when the working girl came to pick them up.

Once while towing I picked up a wreck involving a bike. I waited for the coroner to finish up, and loaded the car, then the bike, and started getting the leftovers. When I picked up the helmet, the guys head was still in it.

The cops made me leave before the coroner got back because they were afraid the coroner would need a coroner after I saw him. What an asshole. A toe, or a hunk of flesh I'll forgive. How do you miss a head?

 

This guy, you believe this guy? He's a big pussy around bugs but a human head, eh, another day at the office.

You're alright man LOL

 

Reading through this reminds me of some things I'd forgotten -

'60 Ford pickup in the junkyard when I was 14 or so, and this was a halfway decent truck they'd just got, looked like it would run and go - full of 1980s porn mags, most with no covers. The kid I had as a helper and I each took a few of them.

'86 Buick wagon I bought for parts for the '87 I was driving as a beater. I got it cheap because the people who had it couldn't get it to run, they tore the ignition all apart. Long story short, I pieced it back together with a module I'd gotten from a demo car and other junk bits, and it turned out to be bone dry out of gas - I had to leave the cap loose so it could suck gas up to the carb. I took the power seats out to put in the good car, and I found out why they couldn't figure out it was out of gas - there was a bowl jammed into the passenger seat. But that's not the end of the story...

We scrapped the '87 in December and I decided to keep the seats. Had it up on it's side so I could get the trans out, the floor was rotty, so I sawed out the pans with a sawzall and took the seats out that way.

As I tossed them to the side clear of the car in case it wanted to fall over, yet another bowl fell out on the ground from inside the seat somewhere. Hopefully that's the last one.


Be nice to find one of these cars with money in it .... but no one around here really has any, so I don't expect to..

 

i buy my cars/trucks CHEAP (or else i can't afford them), so that means i run into a lot of tweakers and i have bought cars from all over so cal. so i have found weed in a baggie UNDER the carpet (it was really brown and flat so it must have been there since the 70's), found a broken off piece of a crack pipe on the rail by the headliner in my panel, found a bunck of old business cards, pencils and a gas recipe from the mid 60's in the glove box lid of my '60 elco, found 1 guitar ear ring, car wash token from the 70's in a '59 elco i had. everything else was just stuff like coins, old match books, a few old dealer license plate frames....somtimes you find better stuff in junkyard cars. all the 30'-40's cars i've been around always came in boxes, so they were picked clean already.

moral of this story is when cleaning out a new buy ALWAYS wear gloves.........or at least it do .

 

When I bought my 57 Bel-Air a year and a half ago, I found: Half a joint that looks about one million years old, one budlight cap, $3 in assorted change, including 2 rolls of pennies, 2 condoms, UNUSED thankfully, several assorted screws, 1 screwdriver, 1 set of jumper cables, some old papperwork, 63 spiders, and one part number 97 light bulb. I hate spiders.

 

In my '53 Chevy, I found a railroad spike in the backseat springs, a pic of a funky kit car from the early 80's and various tools. I had a 70 Chevelle once that I was attempting to restore...cleaned it out and found a dogs jaw bone under the rear seat along with alot of trash, I guess some kind of rodent put the bone there.