What's the coolest thing you found in an old car?

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Under the back seat of a '36 Chev I found a gold watch fob dated 1915 from the Pan Pacific International Expo. It's a y shape with a "coin" in the middle. One side has a bear standing, the other the bear is on all fours, give the "coin" a spin and the bears look like they are fucking.

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Hahahaha, my dad has that one too! Hold on to it, there worth some money.

 

Best thing I ever found besides a few willing women (sweeeeet) was under the back seat of a 72' Dart, couple empty cans of Blatz beer from the 70's. Looked like someone took out the back seat and stuck there. I'm thinkin' one will end up as a overflow tank on my coupe cause I'm a cheap bastard.

 

My buddy bought a crappy '80s Tbird at a police auction a few years back. It had a bunch of knives, sunglasses, and change - the usual, but it also had a nice paper carton gallon of milk in the trunk, half full, and at least 3 months old.

 

I never found nothing cool...

but Mass Butcher found a vintage psychedelic day-glo chopper poster from the 70's in the trunk of one of the cars in his shop that he gave to me.

My old friend Keith used to have a human jaw bone in the back of his car (he was a sick fucker), till his car got repo'd... mwooohahaha. Wish I coulda seen when they popped the trunk!

 

Used Condoms & Girl Tel # !

 

going thought all the cars at my friends tow yard i find lots of tools.lots of change.found a set of hooker headers in an old chrysler.the worse thing i found was in a 68 chevy i got from an estate sale.2 days after i bought the car it rained.the car started smelling bad,very bad.i pulled the back seat out and found 6 inches of dog crap under the entire lenth of the seat,turns out the lady had 20 dogs and loaded the car with them.every time it rained the car stunk

 

While cleaning out the glove box of a 38 Caddilac Limo, I found a very large, old syringe and needle.
We have a 70 Mustang Convertible in our shop. While cleaning it out I found an uncashed check in the car. Turns out it was written by a very good friend of my folks sometime in the 60's. The car's current owner purchased it over 20 years ago close to where it was originally purchased by the person on the check, then brought about 75 miles to where it is now, and stored for 18 years. I remember the car from when I was a kid.
In another car, I found a Hamm's Beer bottle opener...tom - restorit

 

I found an empty Old Style Pilsner stubby in a car that came from Califorina
The weird thing is....Pil is a Canadian beer....
Still had the Cal plates on it. (Late 50's New Yorker)
with a 392.
Later that evening, we thought it would be cool to drink "the Pil" out of a stubby.
Keep in mind we were all to young to remember the "stubby."
Who would have thought that a mouse could have crawled through such a small opening.

For those perverts out there, a "stubby" is a glass beer bottle they used to produce. It's shorter that a normal one.

 

i found a mummified rat in my 50 pontiac, hence my HAMB handle. painted the fucker chrome. found a wheat penny in it, some cigar wrappers. in my 64 impala, i found a petrified pall mall and an ancient little bowl, at least 20 years old on all of it.

 

we called them "hand grenades" just when you thought the web had nothing but useless web sites!!

http://www.stubby.ca/

 

A buddy of mine bought a 57 chevy with four et mags,in the trunk, still in the boxes.The boxes were stamped Thrifty Auto Dec 72. I bought them,(he couldn't bring himself to run them)and put them on my Stude P/U. It was almost a spiritual experiance, taking them out of the boxes. The lug nuts and caps were still in the plastic bags.

 

I used to work at a scrap yard that over charged on eveything and didnt pay enough. But I found a lot of cool stuff while working there. I found a home made 18 inch blade welded to a set of spiked brass knuckles, a bowie knife, a coule deer antler pipes, about a mass count of atleast 2 pounds of weed through my time there. Whole bunch of tools every thing form MAC and Snap-on to walmart brand. The best thing I would have to say i found in the trunk of a car was a complete set of car letters for sorted makes in different style lettering in the original boxes..


Jonney

 

i havent found anything cool really.but in a junkyard shop one day my dad spotted up against their bench a corvette ralley with a wide o tire on it,gave the guys $10 for it.it was an original spare for a vette,with the original unused tire.he turned around and traded it to the corvette restoration shop in my town for 2 brand new ralley wheels to put on his impala

 

oh yeah,i guess i found something cool..while trying to find the options plate in my wagon,i looked in the drivers door jam and found a gulf oil change stiker on it,dated sometime in 1974..the car was already ten years old by then

 

About 20 years ago my dad bought a '79 Nova that had been wrecked for the engine/tranny for his RPU. Inside there was a set of false teeth in pieces! The old man had hit a pole and wasted the front end of the car, we were happy to find out that the old man was ok though.

 

<font color="green"> When I bought the '58 fairlane I gutted the interior to rust proof it (Fishoilene). Under the rear seat I found a mint 1958 1c piece, a couple of 50's sunglass lenses, a signed birthday card from Rock Hudson to James Dean and some candy wrappers. Seems the previous owners never cleaned their car...?? Or, were hiding a piece of history and forgot...??
Not wanting to cash in on the James Dean Rock Hudson thing as I feel James Dean was way cool and as I have many prints of his I destroyed the card to preserve history.
Did I do the right thing?
I guess it takes all sorts....
Cheers,
C

P.S. A friend found a wet spot on the sheepskin that was on the passenger seat of my '56 Chebby back in '82. We had been to a party (Girls and Boys.. ) and I said to him the windscreen seal must've leaked as it had been raining. He was drunk and agreed... yeah right, LOL
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I found an OLD unused in package sheepskin condom behind my friends '50 chevy truck.
I found several old matchbooks in my '55 Buick under the front seat from nightclubs in the San Fransisco bay area fromt the mid 50's. They are the cool ones with Vargas pinup type chicks on the flaps and coctail glasses etc.

 

In the early 60's my dad found a set of landing lights out of a B-17 bomber in the trunk of a '57 Chevy he bought. So he wired them up and drove around with his highbeams on...when someone would click their highbeams on him he would light up the landing lights...he said it looked like daylight for about 1/4 mile in three directions.

That was pretty cool and all until the night he lit up a Missouri State Trooper...

 

This guy in Ok. gave me a 1 owner 55 ranchwagon his dad bought that was riddled with bullet holes and full of all kinds of nests. Took us almost 3 hours to get it out of the woods. When we got it to my shop I started stripping it, of course there was no wires in it because the rats had eaten them so I saved what I could. The ignition switch , light switch and bezels cleaned up pretty good. I took the door locks to a lock smith to get them keyed and went back to finish striping and wired underneith the rear seat was the original keys with the key tag... It is in my 56 now !!!

 

I know the post is about what was found in a car, but, i just have to share what happened to me last weekend with the rest of you.

My neighbor was moving from San Antonio to Waussau. A former co worker of his was helping us pack the Uhaul. He noticed that I was into hot rods and told me that he has some parts that he would like me to have. A few weeks passed and he eventually called me and asked if I was still interested in the parts.

When I went to pick up the parts to my surpize. He had a 32 ford grill and insert chopped two inches, a 32 garnish moldings 5w, model A garnish moldings back window and sidewindow for a coupe, 6 24" stainless trim unkown source a radiator apron for aa 46 (that is going directly to Lesabre59). and a Wiend drag star 6-2 intake (i think it fits a small hemi) along with this killer looking polished aluminum oil filter. I will take some pics and post later. After, I tried severl times to pay the man something and he refused he told me that he had boxes of this stuff and he would call me to pick them up in a few weeks.

Now I know how Jed Clampett must have felt like.

Slick Willie

 

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In the early 60's my dad found a set of landing lights out of a B-17 bomber in the trunk of a '57 Chevy he bought. So he wired them up and drove around with his highbeams on...when someone would click their highbeams on him he would light up the landing lights...he said it looked like daylight for about 1/4 mile in three directions.

That was pretty cool and all until the night he lit up a Missouri State Trooper...

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Hahahahha, LOVE IT!!!

 

i remember in charlotte, NC, there is this aviation museum, they have a nam vintage prop driven aerial photo plane, had a 60,000 lumen flash pod on the bottom. little prop on the front, i suppose to help supply juice to the systems when it goes off. put THAT on your car.

 

I found an old unopened can of beans and a broken bowl in the trunk of my 53 Chevy. A few years back I was taking the interior apart in a 70 Chevelle and found a rather large piece of a jaw bone!!! further inspection reveiled that it was from a dog.

 

I don't know if anyone remembers FarmerJohn's old Falcon he bought, but while he was cleaning it out he found stuffed up under the dash a small baggy of crack. Who knows how long that shit had been up there. How cool is that?

 

Bought an 53' Chevy and found the fold out flyer from a haunted house. It was copyrighted 50 something. Found a dash board Jesus in the same car.

 

I bought a 57 Belair 2 door post for $15, it had a nest of rotten goose eggs in the front seat.
A rolled 78 impala from an impound auction had a $20 bill under the seat, I paid $5 for the car and we took second in a demo derby with it. That car was full of crap including a wallet with drivers license, custody papers, letters from probation officers ect.
Twice I had cars towed in that had passed out Eskimos in the back. One was in the back of a van that had been towed about 50 miles, he couldn't quite comprehend how he had been partying in one place and woke up in the city.

Once a couple cowboys from Nebraska showed up with about 10 garbage bags of ditch weed. I stuffed it in the trunk of a 64 Ford cop car I had because it had the cable trunk release. I forgot about the shit and sold the car, never did hear from the guy.

 

While I was cleaning out one of my 1936 Ford trucks, a metal plate fell out. Its dated 1936 and says that the Telephone company bought the truck new in Mississippi and tells the date and the sheriffs name and that the taxes were paid

 

I have been finding a few Bolivian newpapers from a looong time ago in the door panels of my sedan

 

I forgot about this...I found the original bill of sale in the glovebox of my '50 shoebox (dated on my mom's birthday!

 

Found a little ceramic rose vase, 2 Union Pacific medals from the 39 world's fair and a black garter in the cowl pocket of my 31 roadster. Bet there's a story there...

Found a live water moccasin on the manifold of my dad's F-1 truck!

My 58 Superchief {First Car} had a ratchet, long extension and socket wedged in the frame next to the tranny. Also found how to undo a bra in the back seat of that one!