Worst experience cleaning out the creepy stuff inside the new project?

Makes you wonder why we love these cars so much? LOL

 

I found funny looking shaped rocks under my seats. Turns out they were petrified rat turds. I also found a pair of dirty bloomers stuffed in my back seat. My luck.

 

On the 46' PU some busy little mice carried all the stuffing from the seat down into the gas tank and packed it plum full. Made himself a pretty cozy little pad down in there had it stocked with roaches and all kinds of crap. When I started to take the big block I bought for it apart I found the first two cylinders packed full of dog food. Crafty little suckers---I effin hate em'!

 

i bought a 63 galaxie that had been sitting for years tons of bugs and rat shit in it when i picked it up
..... i have been driving my galaxie for about 4 months nowand i still find brown recluse's runnin around

 

My worst pickup was a 1966 Chevy short bed truck for a buddy of mine. My buddy asks me to give him a hand to go get it. He has the address and all the pertinent information and paid for gas and lunch.

We head out early one Saturday morning and we travel for a little over 3 hours.

Once there... at an old farm/ranch. The old man that lived there greeted us at the gate to his property and said that he would lead us to where the truck was located.

the old man jumps on a ATV and heads out so we follow him with our truck and trailer.

after about 10 minutes of traveling through the old mans north 40, we end up at an old horse stable/barn.

Inside... COVERED in horse, cow, pig, chicken, goat, you name it,,, #2

Barely visible under the PILE of doo, on flat tires, windows open, hood up... yep, what resembled a 1966 short bed Chevy truck.

I stood there looking at it wondering....

How in the %$# did these farm animals get #2 piled that high up on the roof???

It took 2 hours for us to dig up and pull the truck out of the muck and animal crap.

We got it on the trailer, paid the old man for the truck and headed into town to the nearest car wash.

$15.00 worth of quarters later and after clearing the clogged drains at the car wash, we found paint on the old truck.

I kind of felt bad for the car wash attendant and who ever needed to use the car wash after we left.

We also got a remote table all to ourselves and some VERY bad glares from patrons dinning at the Denny's restaurant where we stopped to grab a quick bite to eat on the way home.

SORRY!!!

 

You name it I probably found it. I had 15 seats to remove and about 7 55gal trash bags full of 35 year old crud, dead critters and such to clean out of my bus. I found 2 skeletons of what looked like cat or possum. I hauled it from Southern CO all the way back to GA and I still ran mice and rats out when I got it home. We stopped to refuel in AR and this guys comes by to take a look he slapped the side of the old girl and a fairly good size rat drops out from under her on to the trailer deck, he stopped running about 50 ft away from it, my son and friend and I where laughing. When I went to clean it out I donned a respirator, long sleeve shirt, heavy gloves and BDU's tied and tucked in to my boots. I armed my self with a can of industrial wasp spray, a long broom, hoe, and a pitch fork. Numerous black widows and brown recluse later I had all of the critters cleared out.

 

Plain old gasoline works great on anything. If you're going to replace the upholstery anyway you can put up with the smell for a while....just do it outside with fire extinquisher ready.

 

Had spiders and rats in the past. We get a few snakes that come into our office at work. Last week was a 3 foot long garter snake and with in another hour a copperhead. C02 fire extinguishers work well on snakes.The copper head was despatched with one.

 

Just put some Eucalyptus leaves in the car and the spiders will leave.

 

Does this really work?If so,might have to go collect a crap load of them and put them on the floor boards and in the trunk,maybe under the car too.

 

It works on some, I don't know if it works on all types tho.

 

I bet this will make me sound like a wuss, but I freakin' hate spiders, wasps, bee, hornets, and I really, really hate roaches. luckily when I put my truck together, I didn't run into any of those.

 

i was snooping around an old 53 desoto we have sitting on our property and i also found 2 possums living in it...along with some yellowjackets...

i was also working on a 42 chevy hearse a few months ago for a shop i was working for and it was just creepy feelin to clean that thing out...

 

Had a car come to the junkyard set for a week stunk so bad made me puke walking by brother gets the trunk open big bloated doberman. Plain old bag of charcol will get rid of the mouse smell cut bag open leave in car with all windows up. The fruit from an osage orange (hedgeapple) will drive spiders away.

 

I use brake cleaner on the black widows. What i do is i set them up. There web is stronger than a normal web so i like to knock on their door you might say. You know a couple of tugs on there web and then. . . .BLAM! They get liquid death. Good ole brake cleaner. LOL ok so i have no life.

 

I had a buddy tear apart a Dodge Hemi for me on his Wednesday off...

It was his first experience with taking a Hemi apart. Unfortunately I apparently picked the worst of the bunch and he found an oil pan just full of a mice nest and stinking of droppings and piss...

I got home from work and went out to the shop and almost puked from the smell...

He hasn't offered his assistance since...

 

My sister wants her bloomers back! Thanks

 

My old man was recently cleaning out his car (roller at the moment) and when he went to clean under the passenger seat, a opossum got him REALLY good. Blood was everywhere and it was bad enough that stiches would of been necessary without a doubt, but since it was a animal bite, the doctor chose to leave it alone and heal on it's on to prevent from closing a possible infection inside the finger.

 

How can you forget your father in the trunk of the car. My dad would haunt me if I left him i there more than a day or two.

 

I was working under my truck trying to find the wires to the rear lights. Although I was wearing long sleeves & safety glasses, my ears were not protected. Sure as heck, something fell into deep into my ear. I continued to work but it felt like whatever went in my ear was working it's way deeper.

I called our doctor & he suggested that I lie flat & have my wife pour hydrogen peroxide into my ear. The peroxide would bubble out anything that fell in.

While the doctor held on the line, in went the peroxide, within a few seconds out came a spyder & the screaming began as my wife ran from the room. The doctor & I laughed for a good ten minutes.

Oldjeepdog
Robesonia, PA

 

When I sold my '47 Chrysler, the guy who bought it and I were looking over the car and we raised the hood, only to have a female jack rabbit and about six youngin's come flying out in all directions - it happened so fast that we didn't know what they were and both of us screamed just like " a little girl " and then it was a good laugh.

 

This reminds me of high school biology when Mr. Rhue showed the spider movie. I sat in the back and laughed as everyone started scratching! Thanks fef100 for reminding me that I too have been scratching reading all of this!

 

And no smoking

 

My storage van I went to put some more shit in and found a robin's nest on top of a milk crate full of parts. One of the reasons it's a storage van is the right door does not move in either direction, open about 15 inches. I guess I'll have to cut up a piece of plywood to fill the hole.

Anyways I left the nest, it had eggs in it and I didn't have the heart to kill 'em, even though I know there will end up probably bird shit all over. But I watched later and never did see a bird on it, so maybe it's abandoned. There's another one here home on our back porch and when I scared one of the babies that's just beginning to fly, it's mother came and landed close to me and scolded me for it. So I'd think if there was a bird for the nest in the van I'd have had it chirping at me trying to distract me, too.


I still think the tops for gross was the pallets we moved from where the woodpile had been that left a trail of little pink wiggly things up the deck of the rollback - baby mice that had maybe just been born within 24 hours or so.

 

Dang man! Yall got my hairs rising and Im startin to itch on my arms reading this stuff!! I still havent gotten over about the A big rattler skin they found in my car when they picked it up. Im just glad I wasnt there. Even after it was at my house and I had started to clean some more..it smelled like somethin had died inside. I hate spiders, snakes, scorpions, mean dogs, and scary stories! LOL

 

While cleaning out my '59 Buick just after I brought it home I removed the bottom of the rear seat and found what was left of a badly decomposed black cat. The only real thing left was some bones and black fur, poor little fella had been there a long time, I had to take a chisel and hammer to get him loose. I called the Buick "The Black Cat " after that. There are some great stories on this thread. Keep 'em coming

 

Had some bondo fall out of the rocker panel on my dads 74 blazer. THose old blazes had what was called a rocker box to keep the boddy from sagging when the top was removed. Well , whoever bondoed the rocker apparently thought it would be a good idea to stuff a cat in the rocker box . Sure enough , there was the cat skeleton lol.

Coolest thing i ever found was in a truck bed camper in a 78 ford. The elderly neighbor of mine asked me to clean it up for him and see if i could sell it . Found a brick in behind the camper furnace with over 12,000 cash in it . He didnt believe in banks. I handed the money back to him and he chuckled , said he forgot he had put it in there.

 

This was one of my worst. Some type of animal had called what was left of the seat home for years. I think it was a possum, but only bones were left. It was also full of some type of thorns I had never seen before and don't want to see again. They would go right thru thick, heavy, insulated welding gloves. I got stuck several times, once under fingernail, itched and hurt for days. I even wondered if they were Porcupine quills. Filled up four 50 lb. dog food bags of unknown crap when it was all said and done. See pics.

 

That isn't a porcupine quill.Quills are noticible because they are hollow like a syringe needle on the inside and they are barbed.

 

A bit OT, but in 1959 I hit a large salvage yard in Quincy, Mass looking to buy a damaged Triumph TR-3. Found a suitable car and made the deal. It was a high speed roll over wreck. Got it home and started to pull it apart for the engine and transmission. There were dried blood stains on the seat and carpet. No big deal. But, when I pulled the passenger seat out there was a foot!!
A FOOT!!
Skin was shriveled up, bone pieces sticking out.
A FOOT!!
To top it all off it was in a black Converse sneaker. Not something a 15 year old forgets quickly. (shivering as I recall the episode)