I had a mate that 'discovered' a hors walking in the same direction he was going on a country road one night. He hit it, it slid up the hood and its ares went through his windscreen and is shit all over him and the inside of his car. It was the horses lucky night, it walked away, the car was toast though.
A couple friends of mine,were driving home one autumn sunday night,after the drags(having had a few cocktails)when they came upon a giant(10'high) mushroom,sitting in the middle of the freeway,in dense fog!Neither one wanted to say anything at first,in case it was a "vision".Turned out to be off of a parade float!Man that left a lasting impression on both of them.
when i took the gas tank off my 29 A i noticed there was this big chunk of dirt jammed in between the firewall and the back of the gas tank. i started poking around at it with a screwdriver and it clumped out onto the garage floor. i saw what looked like the end of an od looking rusty bolt so i yanked it out and found an antique porcellane spark plug. i think it might be one of the originals it certainly looks like it has been jammed in there long enough. the whole thing was encrusted in dirt and its rusty except i cleaned it up a bit and the lettering on it is still visible. My aunt and uncle found a 55 pontiac buried while they were diggin a basement for there house there are chunks of it sticking out of a hill in the field behind there house now.
I bought 4 hubcaps for my mercury a couple years ago and had them on for a week before I got home and noticed one was gone. I drove around for an hour looking for it and when I finally quit and went home I ran it over. It fell off in the driveway. Needless to say I felt like a frickin idiot. Does that count?
When I was runin a prison work crew a few years back one of the crew found a pound of weed and a 25 auto pistol. He turned them in to me. Guess rehabilitation works in some cases. lol I found an SK Wayne speed handle in a field the other dayl
I found a very nice chevy batwing air cleaner in the trunk of a $100 59 chevy I bought. Air cleaner brought $2500 at Pate
Back in the late 80's I bought a '59 Plymouth Savoy 2-dr sedan parts car (for $100) with so much shit in the trunk I didn't even bother to go through it until I got it home. When I started pulling stuff out I discovered: 1. A 1958 Fury 350 2X4bbl intake, complete with carbs, linkage, and air-cleaners. 2. A 1967 Pontiac Sprint 6 cyl 4bbl intake complete with carb, air-cleaner, and exhaust manifold. 3. A set of NOS '64 Impala SS hubcaps in an original GM box. 4. A NOS '59 Savoy light-blue cloth headliner in an original Mopar box. 5. A complete and working 1960 Rambler radio in mint condition. Oh yeah, I found an entire '59 Savoy way back in the trunk too.......;-).....Not bad for my $100 investment. jp
I drive along a freeway every day on my way home from work. There is one area where traffic is always stop and go. At one time late last year, they were resurfacing the road, and grinding off the high spots on a section about 2-3 miles long.. This gave it a really rough texture that would make the whole car vibrate when you drove across this section. I noticed one day that there were a LOT of hubcaps on the shoulder on that section of road. I counted them every day, and the numbers kept increasing. By the time they re-paved it, I was able to count over 50 hubcaps along this stretch of road, including a complete set of four baby moons laying at intervals. I suspect the texture just vibrated them off. I wanted to pick some of them up, especially the baby moons since I run them on my coupe. Unfortunately, traffic is always heavy there, and I never got around to it. When it got paved, they cleaned them all up. There was also a mostly complete 4X8 sheet of what looked 1/4" steel. I wanted that, too, but I figured I couldn't lift it into the truck by myself. I had plans at one point to head out there with my wife on a Sunday morning when traffic is light to get it, but it disappeared before Sunday. The odd thing is that I noticed last week that there are now 3 baby moons spread over several miles on the other side of the highway near that same stretch. I should head out next Sunday morning on my scooter, and see if I can pick them up. It is probably narrow enough that I can get far enough off the highway to keep from getting run over. Of course, if they fall off that easy, they may be worthless. If they are as crappy as the Wheel Vintiques ones I have on the coupe, one of which I dented with the palm of my hand while installing them, they are probably pretty beat up from hitting the ground. Slonaker
If I read about one of you guys finding a 28-29 Model A decklid on the side of the road somewhere between Dallas and Lubbock, I'm going to be fuckin pissed! We were towing my car back to Lubbock and a storm took the decklid right off the car. Didn't notice til we had covered 300 miles, and had no time to go back and look. - Matt
I know one of you guys has my ball pein hammer I left on 4th street in Austin, in between San Jacinto and Trinity, I WANT IT BACK.
I found a old 7up drink box complete with bullit holes in a old dump in the woods. Its in my garage now though!
i bought a 65 galaxie four door hardtop from an african american not to long ago, in the trunk it had ten different license plates, with a large scale. when i pulled the back seat i found a large black garbage bag in the bottom of it looked like marijuana seeds......
I found a deck lid to a 28-29 A on the side of the road between Dallas and Lubbock, right in the middle of a storm..................
I went to the NSRA Nationals in St. Paul in 1977 and stayed at the KOA just west of the city for a day before it started. With nothing else to do, I wandered out through the woods toward a field just a few hundred yards from the campground. At the edge of the field was a small pile of old tin, mostly bullet-nosed Studebaker parts that had been cut up. On the bottom of the pile, in plain sight, was a complete, chrome, 40 Ford dash. I just picked it up and carried it back and threw it in my 37 pickup. Had lots of offers for it but kept it around for years until a friend needed one for his 40 custom.
ha.. swiper: that pile was in my loop of garbage dump playgrounds... that is all gone now... that dash came from my brothers friends chopped /channeled A.. his high skool car...he needed the legroom the house accross the street from the KOA still does not have electricity.. in fact the our former gov. jesse turnbuckle lived near there too i waved to ya as you went by to the fairgrounds remember!!!! we were working on my brothers blue 52 custom olds in the driveway we lived between the KOA nd the freeway paperdog
I dug an old Firestone Tires service porcelin sign out of a creek bank that had eroded into an old dump. I also found a sealed box of donuts on the side of the road in the winter time. I ate a few of them, but they got stale fast after sitting in the snow all day.
When I was a kid I used to ride my bike pulling a wagon up and down the roads collecting beer bottles. I found a 24 almost full with all of the bottles still capped and full! It was at a stop sign so I figured someone stashed it before getting pulled over. I thought I was the luckiest SOB on the planet as I poured them all out to get the deposit money....Damned if I don,t drink that brand now.
Driving through northern New Mexico heading to Durango one of the little ones needed to make an emergency potty stop. We walked out into the bushes off the road and there lying on the ground was a very nice (no damage) 36 Chevy complete grill shell with the grill. I had nowhere to put it as the car was completely packed. So it most likely still sits there today. Don't ask me where, it was just before 4 corners. BR
i found a harley in lansing il when i was 9 10 years old in the garbage hard tail it was all primered and taken apart i moved the motor and put a garbage can over it and hauled the frame over my handle bars on my bicycle to my freinds house and went to get my dad and by the time we got back 30 min later the frame was gone magicly and so were the other parts and him and his dad didnt no what i was talking about !!@#$%
I've found all kinds of cars buried, partially buried, and used to build up house-seats and bridges. Theres an 40's Chevy pick up buried up to the window frames a mile or two from my house in creek-sand/mud. Several other cars are buried along with it, but someone ran them over with an bulldozer to "beautify" everything, which is ironic, considering that now instead of some normal looking old cars poking out of the sand, you've got some jagged and mangled metal waiting to rip someone's skin off. There was an ton of 60's and 70's cars piled up on an hillside and covered with dirt to build an house seat where the county is building an new road now, this was done back in the late 70's or 80's I guess judging by the cars there, salvaged some old trim and glass that fell out of the cars. Found an Nash Metropolitan that had sat over an creek, with the cowl back in the water, the body had actually turned to dust from the moisture, leaving the front half of the car an neat looking planter. I did salvage the window trim off of it, if anyone is actually looking for some. And while traveling the riverside, I found an Corvair and late 50's Ford wagon sticking out of the bank, floor and frame rusted out and the rear quarters and roof just hanging there. I'll have to hacksaw that off and use it for an dog house or something one day.
I was at a yard sale once and a guy had an old motorcycle rear fender...really old. Had an oil lamp for a taillight. He said it was off a 1914 Henderson. He wanted 20.00 for it. I bought it and after my dad told me what a fool I was for buying such a worthless thing, I put it on ebay and got 930.00 for it. My Dad has never says anything about the stuff I buy now. I also find all kinds of cars and parts up here in the Northwest. You can always go walk out in the woods and find something neat.
I can relate to this one. When I was in the military in Florida, back in 1990, I dropped almost $300 on the ground. Wouldn't hurt so bad now, but back then I made about 10,000 a year. I had just pulled my money from the ATM for a 2 week period. Bills went late and no gas to cruise. I sat around pissed for 2 weeks, in the Summer, waiting for the next payday. I wish there were more upfront people out there like you. Worst part is, mine was on base, so it was a fellow vet that could understand how little I made. Probably bought a new amplifier for his import.
I have only had one halfway decent roadside find, 26 pounds worth of NGK h.v. insulator without a chip (I collect glass insulators. See attachment if you're wondering WTF I'm talking about.). Its not for lack of road time, my job has me on the road all over and around the city. Nothing. Nada. I feel cheated. I've had better luck in junkyards. I've found a few generic ratchets that ended up as emergency tool kit tools, found one snap-on that became my prefered ratchet, fits the hand like a glove along with misc. sockets and wrenches. Too many scroungers around these parts I guess. =-) Alex.
I found a Cities Service "Crew Levick" 15" gas globe at Hershey a few years ago. It was the last day of the swap meet and had rained and the globe was sitting in the mud, under the vendor's table. The vendor was starting to pack up and I asked "How much?" He said "$45.00 and not a penny less". I whipped out the bread and walked away with it. Cleaned it up and sold it on Ebay for $1200.00 ! Must've had a thousand people walk by it during the 3-day meet - go figure!
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