It's a Hay Spear or har****.https://www.facebook.com/ruralherit...ost-dont-need-to-say-anyth/10158069147538156/ Stick it in a bale of hay hang it on your Hay trolley and when it reaches its destination pull the rope that you tied to the trigger to drop it.
Might not be the coolest thing I ever found but very funny! About 1965 Dad picked up a 1955 Dodge Custom Royal. Ya the one with 3 color paint. Anyhow we went for first ride and he said, "what's that rattle I hear in the dash?" He hated a rattle in a car. We drove home and I started reaching up under the dash to see if something, like the radio, was loose. I managed to almost get my hand stuck when I grabbed what felt like metal wrapped in paper. Pulled it out and found a church key with a note wrapped around it with a rubber band holding it. The note said, "I hope this was driving you crazy!" We both cracked up laughing!
This piece replaced the loose hay grapple . It was stabbed through the square bales of hay then the bales were pulled up into the hay loft using the rope , pulleys and track in the barn that was used to stack the loose hay . It was soon replaced with elevators or conveyers with spiked chains to move the bales up into the haylofts
Never found anything super cool....38 special album under the back seat of a non hamb friendly Duster. Also found misc tools, change, etc but nothing high dollar or real exciting.
Found the usual suspects, gum, combs, loose change, old food. But one car my wife bought in the late 90’s when I met her (‘74 Buick Century) I found a steel penny from back in the day.
I've had a lot of cars and found cool stuff. My latest is this coolie cup which came out of the trunk of the 58 Corvette that belonged to my friend from 1973 until he p***ed away in 2017. I bought the car 5 years ago and remember him using the coolie in the 1990s. Still had one of his empty Diet Pepsi cans in it.
Do bullet holes count? I even found a round of ammo that went to a smooth bore, probably .38 cal rifle I am guessing. Hey it came out of Vegas. Another club member was pulling the body off of the frame and found a squished dragon fly. Normally no big deal but his coupe body had never been off of the frame since 1930!
This cool Charlie's Angels sticker was stuck on the underside of the trunk lid on my 40 Ford. Happened to notice it when I was running the new brake light crossover wiring.
I know of performance warehouse. I’ve actually been to the Portland location but it’s been years since.
Not long after I got my’56 Fairlane, I found a pair of fine black ladies gloves tucked in the part of the front seat where the backrest met the seat bottom. They more than likely belonged to the original owner. I also found a couple of small ice s****ers under the seat. The interior was otherwise really clean. In the early’90s, I found a badly weathered $20 bill inside the trunk in one the rear quarter spaces of my ‘63 Riviera. The bill was dated 1963 and in really bad shape. I took it to the bank and they gave me a new $20 no questions asked. I also found a cool old comb made of aluminum in that same spot. I still have it. In the’80s, I found a 1951 dime under the front seat of a ‘51 Cadillac that I started to take apart to restore. I still have it somewhere with the rest of my silver coins I keep.
That's a knockoff of a Scripto "Vu-Lighter". I have a real one with a guy taking a golf swing inside. Back on topic, I know a man who owns a Velorex (Czechoslovakian 3 wheeler powered by Jawa engine, covered in leather fabric stretched over a metal frame) who found a piece of a Soviet newspaper in there. Edit: apon closer inspection, it is not a knockoff. You can see the logo on there. The one you found is an earlier model, before they got more "refined". There were several companies making forgeries based off the original model. My mistake, I'm tired and I couldn't see the image that well on my phone
Certainly not the coolest thing but it is something one might find in a old car, this was found under the back seat in my old Chevelle. HRP
Under the dirt and sand, behind the seat, in a '34 truck cab-Was a WPA US Government license plate [1935]. NUMBER 1 !!! Sold to a collector who drove from CA for it. Newc
I was cleaning out a 1960 Dodge dart and found a whole bunch of matchbox cars from the late 70s/ early 80s. I also found a Hans Solo action figure. All too worn to have much value. Still cool
Bought a model A that was used in movies. Found a lot of broken gl*** (fake plastic) and a number of cardboard License plates from different cities and years.
Hello, Our photography business was doing well and we were having fun meeting lots of new people, creative builders, just nice folks with their cool hot rod builds and custom motorcycles. The hot rod that we purchased (1940 deluxe Ford Sedan Delivery 327 powered) needed a lot of work. So, the El Camino was still the workhorse, while we repaired, replaced and made big changes to the sedan delivery. Safety and drivability were two issues that had to get straight. Both my wife and I decided that it would be a great addition to those photo shoot locations and days. Along with our business cards, sedan delivery would stick out during the photo shoots. Afterwards we hoped the bright red sedan delivery became a memory of the photography and prints coming their way. 327 powered 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery… Being a real Red color (not Salmon Pink like my high school, Flathead sedan delivery) was attractive and made the sedan delivery stick out. But we needed many months of working on it to get it to the point of safe road trips all over So Cal and inland areas. Jnaki The back of the sedan delivery was a perfect place to showcase the stacks of photographs in all different sizes and configuration. One of the most popular was an antique brown tone that made any black and white photo look like an old photo. Most were free as it did not take long to print a string of photos from the long negative roll. The color ones were custom and took longer. Note: When we sold the 327 powered 40 Ford Sedan Delivery years later, I cleaned out the glove box. I left our supply of 8 track tapes in place and found an old worn card with water marks in the corner edge, hidden under a bunch of other stuff. So, it shows our interest in photography business and where we wanted it to go for our casual lifestyle. It is the last remnant of our fledgling photo business from those casual days of being 20-30 somethings. “PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS CUSTOM PHOTOGRAPHY” came to mind for some advertising and a nice tax write off to help out in any way it could. (Or “Photographic Works, Laguna Beach,”) Note 2: This is the last card found in one of those old glove boxes during those old photo journalist days. Saturday, it was found in another small box inside of a different family memorabilia container. This is the last one. Since I made the original one with the photo business, I added an ink stamp for the back of all photos/color slides I gave away back then. Then it was put on the back of every original business card. This card is the last of its kind in memories. When we were ready for another family car, the 327 powered 40 Ford Sedan Delivery was sold and drove away with a young couple from the South Bay area of Los Angeles. That was a sad sight, but it was time. Then when cleaning out the red 65 El Camino several month later, I found the last three cards from the photo business in the glove box. We had always kept a stack of cards in the glove box, since most of our long distance driving all over California was done in the El Camino. The red El Camino had 125 miles and at 120k, I had to do the first major repair of a new water pump, thermostat and other items in the engine compartment. Now, it had fallen into the realm of “get it ready to sell,” to fit our family needs. Our third seating area was now taking over the seat space and we needed a station wagon with a back seat dedicated to all things baby/toddler/elementary school kid activities. The photo card represented not only hot rods and customs, but I was delving into surf photography and photojournalism on that end of the spectrum. But, as I found out, I thought the hot rod/custom cars/motorcycles editorial staff was tough. The surf industry was much more specialized using their own photographers, with very few photos accepted for stories from outside photographers. A nice door design for the 40 Ford Sedan Delivery was a choice, simple and not too costly. The simple version of just lettering on the large side rear panel was going to be the final answer, in gold leaf. The sign shop could do it easily. only in our thoughts… That card represented a 15 year chapter in photos/ hot rods /surfing /motorcycles, travels, etc. Each bit of memorabilia helps stimulate the tired old brain cells, but time marches forward and it all leads to a long family oriented lifestyle, primarily station wagons as a first choice of transportation. Foreign or domestic. Foreign being the choice over the domestic versions in later years… YRMV
Mid 90s I went to look at a 39 Chevy coupe project. The ch***is was all done and body work started but in process. All of the fenders and running boards were stacked in the car. While I was rummaging through all the sheet metal I saw it. . . . . An Offenhauser tri power intake and Rochester carbs. Bought the car for $1500.00, put the set up on my 57 and sold the 39 for $1500.00.
A friend once gave me a 70 Chevelle two door rolling body minus front clip if I remember right. When I went through all the stuff in the trunk, I found a complete disk brake setup as far as spindles, rotors, calipers, etc. for an A body GM in there buried under other junk. The free car was a good deal obviously, but the disc brakes were a nice freebie for my 64 GTO I was building at the time.
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