Interesting things you've found in cars

I found a 1900 silver dollar under the seat of a 85 Nissan, a few pistols, some Mercury dimes in a 58 Ford, lots of tools.In the trunk of a 52 Chevy that sat since the 60's, I found an old 50's Chevron road map, 4 56 Fairlane hubcaps, old bottles, a bible and a shitload of quilting squares.

I find all kinds of stuff in cars. T shirts that fit me I keep, real jewelry goes to the wife, fake jewelry goes to my daughter, and she and my son split the toys.
I enjoy the old newspapers the most, with the car ads.

A friend bought a motorhome at the impound that had a dead guy in it. Nobody knew to look. He sorta melted into the bed with a pile of clothing on top. He was there long enough to dry out. No smell. I went in it, as well as alot of others that day. He found the body as he dug through all the stuff in there.

 

The neighbor's wife was depressed, took a ride into the country, crawled into the trunk with a 12 ga. and ate a load of steel shot. The coronor got her remains. When he got the car back from the cops, it was a bloody mess in there. Tissue, etc, all over. He was bummed, to say the least, they didn't even warn him about it. As he cleaned it up, (baaad job!) he found one of her eyes.

Now for a more fun one. Buddy of mine buys an '18 T. The wood box on the running boards contains all the original tools, and a lot more stuff. Oil, parts, etc, for a journey. Under the seat was a lot more breakdown repair parts, hardware samples (turns out he was a traveling salesman), road guides from 1923, etc. Road guides were for all the country roads. Directions like "turn left at the red barn next to the two story farmhouse with a stone outbuilding" kind of directions on how to get where you are going. The car was a pillerless coupe, a very rare car, only a few known to exist. Had removable pillars, so it would be a Model T 3 window coupe, bet ya didn't know about those!

 

We have a WINNAH!!!

 

I buy a lot of cars at auctions back yards impound sales or any where I can make a dollar. The best was 300 certificates from Wendys for free hamburgers.a set of 461x heads in the trunk of a volvo. A fishing tackle box that was full .I have found plomb tools , other decent hand tools and lots of china made cheap tools, drugs,small sums of money always less than 5 dollars.year books, lots of jumper cables, new car parts still in boxes, many quarts of oil , un open jugs of antifreeze, dishes, paint, lots of rodents and bugs. had to spray one old dodge down for fleas, several road signs, The worst has been human body parts{ a hand and a foot also part of a scalp} from 3 different wrecked impounds. I always call the authorites and let them pick up. The funnest was a car that had been in impound for over one year . It had a large box of honey buns they still looked eatable.lots of persertives.

 

If there's a coroner on the board, I' like to hear an opinion/explanation about all the leftovers. I've seen too much of this myself (besides the head).

We had a car in the yard once that was driven by a fat lady. A truck had hit her and pushed the car into a pole. There had to be 50 lbs of flesh left in it. Nastiest thing I ever saw. It was mostly white and mushy, all fat. Yuck! I haven't thought about that in years.

Here's tip I learned from a coroner: If you come across something gross, light up a cigarette. It helps numb your sense of taste and smell a bit.

 

I second that!

 

found a joint in my 56 VW bus. I just got from dude and drove home to clean this thing out and then there it was and my mom said I'll take that, thanks

 

how bout a lovely string of anal beads in a 66 toranado i bought a few years ago...no shit!!![ sorry that last part was too easy] i hung them on the rear view mirror...true story!!! breeder

 

disgusting....so a job at the junkyard inspecting cars might be better paying than i thought with all that money people finding.

 

Angry Momma Rat!

 

I found a tape that was labeled "German" in my '68 Cutlass, also found a 1968 U.S. quarter; I thought that was pretty cool.

 

we pulled the door panels off of a buddy of mine's 67 (?) LeMans and found half a pint of mexican labeled tequila and a bobbed and taped 38 special - that was a weird day for a couple of high school kids

 

I bought a 64 Fairlane off of a buddy of mine's sister. She bought a new Firebird in 72 and when she picked it up she called me and told me to go by her dad's house and pick up the Fairlane. I got there, her dad gave me the keys, and said he ought to check to make sure she didn't leave anything in it. He opened the glove box and it looked like a waterfall of condoms. They were everywhere. I counted over 200 condoms. under the seats, in the seats, everywhere. Unused of course. He was absolutely stunned. I handed him a shoebox full of condoms and took off. When his wife came home he showed her the box and she said "So what, I bought them for her. Do you want her knocked up?" I was still pulling them out a day later.

 

I found a mouse living in my intake manifold

 

haha, yeah i found a dead rattle snake in the rear crossmember of my 52 sedan delivery, i guess he crawl in through a small hole and couldnet get out

 

A customer brought his car into the shop complaining of overheating. I pulled the T-stat, and there was a red shop rag THROUGH the center of it!

Another time, working at a junk yard, we got a car in, popped the trunk and it was FULL of gay porn. After the boss went home, we wallpapered his office with it.

 

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He was waiting to ambush you but he underestimated your keen ability to smell a trap.

 

when i first got my 49 chevy it had a spare tire in the trunk, i tried to get it outta there and relized it was a hell of alot heavier than a tire should ever be, so i unmounted it and found 87 dollars in change, mostly nickles and dimes dated between 1920 and 1967.

after i ripped out the interior i found what appeared to be an ol' skool tattoo gun, so i took it to my tattoo artist and sure enough it was, he bought it from me for 700 bux best profit i ever made on something i found

 

I found a copperhead snake on the driver's seat of a 30 model A tudor. I interupted his afternoon nap and he was PISSED! There was alot of parts and stuff in there too but I didn't stay around long enough to check it out. I think I only touched the ground once or twice in a 60 foot sprint to the road.

 

A friend of mine (a 'tiquer) found a pair of LARGE ladies panties stuffed behind the rear seat of a '39 Buick he was restoring. Guess nothing's going on now that wasn't going on back then !! He framed the panties and displays 'em, along side the tools & literature for the car, at car shows.

 

I used to work at a body shop.. This guy brought and old camaro in for some work. . The trunk was filled with amature photos of nude chicks..

It was crazy. We did not take any.. But we did find a pair of underware sitting there too.. I am talking like a size 36.. Big undies. With a big stain in the crotch..

We all kept laughing about it. Then the shop owner took a pair of pliers and picked them up and threw them in a plastic baggy..

He said take them home to our Alcoholic landlord.. And leave them in the bathroom..

So we did. .

The next morning they were gone. . ME and my buddy were puzzled

A couple of days later.. Our drunk landlord says, I don't know who it was. But one of your girlfriends has a smelly pu$$$$y..

We just about died laughin!!!

 

found something relatively NASTY today. It was a kitten - very dead of course. The car owner couldnt understand why the car smelled so bad until we took up the carpets and found it- very dead very flat. ICK

 

I have found the usual change; nothing big. In a 82 Fairmont, i found a snake skin which made me pretty nervous.

In my '77 Intenational Scout, I found a comb inside the drivers door. The door panel had never been removed, before I removed it.

 

i found a few pokemon cards in an old hyundai my dad brought home one day to work on for his friend to drive in the demo derby, and i found either a dead bird or a dead rat ( i couldnt tell which one it was) in my model A's gas tank when i took it apart

 

my dad told me once that the scrap guy that used to stop by his house said "hey i found this in the trunk of this 53 ford i m bringing to the scrap yard, you want it?" it was a 3 carb (i think) flathed intake with 97's and linkage, so he gave it to my dad.

i was helping a few friend clean out there old garage that they were tearing down to build a bigger garage and when we got to moving out the 55 chev i told the daughter to get in and steer it she opened the door and let out a screem, so i went over to look and it was a dead cat inbetween the side of the seat and door panel, it must have been there a while, so i stuck it with a ptich fork and put it in a garbage bag, all the time while gagging!!

i also found a AAA good driving award badge in the counsole of a 65 riv i parted out.

my buddy found a pair of chopped chrome plated 27 roadster w/s stantions in a model a sedan he bought.


jeff

 

Half of a bowling ball in a mid seventies Hornet I was stealing the oil pan off of. What do you have to hit to bust a bowling ball?

 

A long time friend of mine rang me up to ask if i could do some rust repairs on his recently inherited wagon,i knew the car and thought there couldnt possibly be any rust in it as it had rarely seen rain and had only 20000 on the odo,when i arrived he showed me the inside of the tailgate ,which to my suprise was quite rusty ,so off i started and pulled the trim panel off the tail gate ,then glass out so i could get to the inside of the repair ,i could see something in the area to be welded so i grabbed a torch and looked inside only to find an old paper coffee cup with the paper handles,on closer inspection it had signatures all over it and on the bottom it said "hello from all the boys on afternoon shift HOLDEN dandenong plant 09/07/68(GM IN OZ) we bet you had a cunt of a time getting this out!"
needles to say we were both pissing our selves laughing!my mate now has the cup in his old sports trophy cabinet taking pride of place!

 

My dad drug home a VW Beetle from a VW junkyard. Inside the floor boards were covered several inches deep with arrow heads. I believe he gave them to a collector.

After leaving my truck parked by my shop for a coulpe weeks I was checking the fluids before starting it. I removed to aircleaner for some reason and found a cooked rat on the intake manifold. It had been there long enough to stain the aluminum intake.

 

I found an old dead guy in a car once.

 

Bought a '50 Ford Tudor at auction about 25 years ago. When I opened the glovebox, there was a complete itinery of a trip to California..... gas station maps, a handwritten ledger of miles logged per day, cities visited, the cost of gas at each stop, meals, motels and a lot else. I put in in a cupboard in my (then) garage for safekeeping, but during a messy breakup it somehow disappeared...

When building himself a stock car in the '60s, a friend always kept track of every cent he found under the seats and such in each car as it was stripped. Supposely, the more $$$ found, the better the car would do on the track. It never worked for me but was a cool idea.....