FOUND ANYTHING IN AN OLD CAR? friend of mine bought a beater truck, took the dash apart found $3,500 rolled up behind the radio.
wow. All I seem to find is rats nests and garbage. Althought in the 79 Camaro I got for the subframe I found a good working bumper jack
I found a dimond wedding ring in the back seat of a 54 desoto I picked up about 4 years ago, I gave it back to the owner.
I found a couple of joints...but I put them there. Point being is I found them and usually I forget when I hide that stuff.
Bought a burned out 86 chevy van at auction for I think it was exactly 80$, because the engine looked good/newish. I ripped out the engine, and used it. It ran freakin great, it was a fresh rebuild. Then I sold the trans for 100$ to a friend. Got a weird desire to have a lookaround in the van, and found a check book folder thingy minus checkbook. It was only partially burned. It had a check register in it that someone had been using to doodle on, so no real info there, but a couple pages in was 86$. That was kinda cool. Then I took what was left of the van to the junkyard and got a few more bucks. Aint life grand sometimes? -GothY- Oh, My buddy found a rusty 38 special in the camaro he bought. He gave it to the cops.
that was a good day for him. would had been cooler if it were a old car and the money was from the old days 40s or 50s
Once found a t-shirt wedged in behind a speaker grille. Fitted and it's now my favourite... Pity the poor buggers that got mums old car back in the 80's though. In just the right light you could see bloody handprints on the dash and drips all over the place from one of my many cycling get-offs.
Let's see.. Found a Loaded .38 under the seat of an Expedition.. Previous Owner just forgot about it... Lotsa Spare Change, an NEW tampon under the cupholder in my Honda AND>>>> Some Drunk college guy took a dump in my driveway then passed out. After the ambulance picked him up, I realized the dookie was still there, so I got out the hose and found .37 cents and a .22 cal round in his crap! No, I didn't touch it or keep it!
i had been lookin for a 50s ky license plate, well when the people renting a house owned by my grandpa moved out i looked in the garage of the house, nailed to a wooden shelf in the garage i found a 54 ky bullitt county license plate (the county i live in). needless to say i got it off the shelf and kept it!
found a jennings 22 pistol in a car my daughter bought recently. it was under the back seat! still works too!
A few months ago in my 52 victoria I found a bayonet under the rear seat, a gun in the trunk, and miraculously under the hood I found a flatty that WASNT stuck!
About a year ago I was headed to WI from La for a classic boat show I attend every year. I almost didn't make it because money was so tight, but I decided to go anyway. Anyway, about 300 miles down the road I pulled my sun visor down and for some reason flipped open the vanity mirror. $800 fell out that I was supposed to have deposited into the checking account. 2 weeks earlier. No wonder money was tight! LOL
Lets see.... '54 F-100 had a stuffed girraffe in it, oil cans and pepsi bottles under the seat from 60's, a little dried up pulp book that was selling adult books, and a wrench stuck on the tranny mount! S-10 I put the '54 on had one live tracer round, and a couple of spent cartridges in it. And a bottle of "massage" lotion, under the seat were two new cans of white $1 spray paint. International cab I bought had a cool old nail apron in the floor boards, with a big boy looking character on it. My '68 El Camino had a '76-ish Camaro back glass in it, some dodge truck mirrors, and a letter from a woman to one of the previous owners. Both were in the millitary, she seemed to really like him, and apparently they had fun on the way to the airport. He was going to take her out on his boat. I tried calling the numbers in the letter just for the hell of it but got some guys cell phone (Dates on letters were from '80s) I have a little '62 F-85 and when we finnaly opened the trunk we found a baby blue Sears chainsaw. It wouldn't run, but I kept it anyway. Found some ancient Ale-8 bottles in another '68 Camino (KY rodders will understand), and a broken 'Skynrd CD in a Chevette I bought. My '74 Charger had a plywood door (WTF?) a bunch of foam insulation in the back seat, and some tampons in the glovebox. Trunk was full of those Ignition things that would always melt on those Mopars.
my dad told me in the late 70s early 80s he bought a 48 chevy and in the trunk he found a used condom stuck to the mat of the trunk. i about died laughing
When I removed the headliner in my Model A, I found newspaper used as stuffing. This picture shows former president Harry S. Truman in the El Diario 'de Nuevo Laredo. .
found a loaded .22 and glock .40 with no clip tucked under a full size chevy van in my workplace/salvage yard with the #'s filed off them
i found a live rattle snake in a 68 firebird i bought....talk about a surprise when i lifted the back seat!!!
found an AK47 resting on the exhaust manifold of a 80's Delta 88. full clip and all, hot manifold.... scary stupid
Reading these threads sometimes I wonder if you could make a living just going to the junkyard and looking under all the seats and so forth every time a new car comes in. The best find I can report lately is I pulled a manifold off a '90 Chev ambulance about three weeks ago. Had to cut through the Y-pipe with a hacksaw and broke the blade, so I was using my crowbar to pry it apart. Fast forward a couple weeks and I'm wondering where the hell my crowbar is. I go back to get the other side manifold from the van when I find out I need it, too, and I'm laying there sawing off the other side and see way on the side I'd pulled first, a bar in the snow. Yep, my crowbar. How the hell no one found it and kept it after two weeks in the junkyard, who knows, but the snow over it probably helped.
Found a like new Mallory distributor and some hypodermic needles in my wife's '67 Firebird. Found a spare key in the tail light lens of my '64 Tempest wagon. It was a one owner I got a couple years ago.
I found a 1927 quarter between the body and frame of my 1927 rpu. It's going to get inlaid in the gear shift.
In a 56 F-100 i bought in Wittier California i found a Swedish Bahco wrench a Swedish army 9mm parabelum ammo!!Gues they got homesick and a Sultan condom (unused)
I was putting a new tail light bulb in a 89 Dodge mini van . Popped off the taillight and there was a tree frog sticking to the body under the light housing. This little fellow was very much alive. Kept him for a few days but his call at nite was very loud and was driving us crazy. Turns out he was about 800 miles outside its normal habitat range. Don't have a clue how he got there or when. I had owned the van for about 4 months when I found him.
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