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

I'm calling the exterminators....

 

I had a friend that was going through a 50' Plymouth sitting in a farmers field. He found an old Indian head penny and thought there might be more coins in the car. He started digging through the leaves that littered the floor, and his hand scooped right through a dead cat lying on the floor. His hand went right through it's guts!
The only thing I've ever ran across in my cars, was some old porn pictures stuffed in the rear backseat panel of my Lemans. I always wondered why someone would stuff porn pictures in such a strange place, other than to make someone wonder about it years down the road.....

 

That's a nice sized crawfish. I used to walk up and down the river pulling those out from under rocks and cookin them up.

kinda funny that I woudl never expect to see one of those on here.

tok

 

Im calling a therapist.Spiders make me go bonkers.I dont worry about snakes.............I live with 7 of them in my house.

 

Snakes are cool. I used to have a corn snake a while ago, but he was a real recluse. All he would do all day is sleep under the wood chips in his tank, and he'd try to take your finger off when you went to pick him up to feed him or whatever. He was even like that when we got him from the pet store. I had him for about a year, and he didn't grow at all, even though we fed him like we were supposed to.

When we were gone on vacation, one of my cats was sitting on top of his tank, and broke the mesh lid. Unfortunately, the snake got out, and when he tried to escape from the cat, accidentally fell down the furnace vent in the floor.

I still feel bad for the little guy.

 

You may want to let Paris Hilton know you found Tinkerbell...

 

My dad was working on my moms uncle's 55 ford "farm car"when he found the petrified tip of a finger.Uncle walks up to dad {he's really freakin' out about said finger} and tells my old man "whered ya find that? I tried looking for it when I caught it in the fan five years ago! guess its a little late to sew back on now!"

 

Went to pick up a 40 Chevy sedan I bought a few years back. It had been sitting for about 10 years. We backed the trailer up to the rear, put down the ramps and hooked up the electric winch cable the the leaf spring perch. My buddy opened the passenger door to kick it into neutral and all hell broke loose.

A huge ass bumble bee came zooming out and popped him on the chest. He knocked him to the ground with his cap and tried to get away (My buddy has a bad leg and has to hobble) but the bastard came back again and popped him on the shoulder. His son ran over and slapped it to the ground again and stomped ont he sucker with his cowboy boot and twisted it into the grass. When he took his foot off of it it flew up and popped him on the fore head. it got his son 2 more times (total of three) and Billy by this time had hopped in the truck and had the windows up. His son and I were standing probably 60 feet from trailer and this bee was so big it looked like a damn humming bird. We could hear the thing flying around. It went to the truck and kept ramming the window trying to get to Billy. Finally after about 10 minutes it left and after about 5 minutes of nothing Billy hopped out and unhooked the winch cable, and drove outta there dragging ramps and all. We left the car and I sold it to someone else about a month later and told them to be careful, and have fun. LOL

Another time a buddy of mine was towing a '65 or 66 Dodge Dart home that he had bought for $50. It had no brakes so he had a chain inside a section of pipe and was towing it behind a pickup truck. They crossed a railroad track and bounced a wasp nest out of the dash with about 50 wasp on it. LMAO. He just opened the door and bailed. LOL

 

my Rambler is full of either cat or Racoon turds and has old piss smell all over the seats too. havent started cleanin it out yet, figure I'll sweet/shovel/hoe out as much as i can, then shopvac, then powerwash the rest. Shampoo and febreeze the seats as good as I can.

 

what about the post about the person who found the dead body in the trunk of the merc??(i think i may have read it on the OSR board a long time ago) i guess the owner decided to commit suicide by shotgun to there head...... only after locking them selfs in the trunk.... person was missing for years.... someone buys the car, jimmys the trunk open.

*barf*

i did notice i have 4 mystery spider bites on my back from working on this 52 this week. its bad enough having ticks all over the place here. i saw 2 brown spiders today, one ran over my fingers as i was holding the glove box door.....

 

Sorry for you guys in the South, but haven't any of you guy's in the north learned to go pick up your newly acquired cars in the fall, after the first freeze? No snakes, no spiders, no bees, no wasps. I've never had any problems picking up a car in Kansas, other than a few mice and maybe a couple of rats. If I do end up picking a new car in the warmer months, I'll always stop by the closest car wash to hose the thing down, inside and out. Even if the interior is decent, it still gets a bath and sits overnight with the windows open.

 

PS... after looking at pictures of what the brown recluse can do... im freeked out to even go to a junk yard...... =(

 

Take the brown recluse very seriously. I got bit on Halloween and was off work for 4 months. In the hospital 5 days. Nearly lost a leg. Doc said that if I'd have toughed it out a couple of more days I'd have been dead. These are evil things. I didn't feel the bite only the infection. It's damned scary that nobody has said there's a sure way to kill these bastards. I've heard that Daddy Longlegs are the black widow's and recluse's enemy. So, if you see a lot of them be assured that the black and brown monsters are nearby. I don't know if I'll be able to relax in my garage again. Pretty freaked out about them.

Somebody post how to get rid of them, if there's a way.

 

Asked an exterminator customer of mine how to kill spiders..after laughing his ass off,he suggested a rolled up newspaper..
Brought an old Merc home years ago,went straight from the farmers field to the garage.Next day the wasps and hornets flying around the garage looked like special effects from a horror movie...took several days,a lighter,and several cans of WD40 to finish them all off..

 

Count me as a card carrying member of the spider haters club.

Most of the creepy crawleys in my shop are just your average run of the mill, garden variety spider. Small, Tolerable.
The other night I opened the side door, stepped thru and somthing big and brown jumped down from overhead, hit my hand and landed on the floor...Biggest Wolf spider I've ever seen..Probably 4 inches across. After I got done screaming like a little girl and shittin myself, I stomped that hairy prick thru the concrete floor, grabbed a new can of carb cleaner and went hunting for his buddies...

 

Googling that is not for the faint of heart. I think im gonna be sick....... I never liked spiders, now I realy hate them.

 

Racoon scat is VERY dangerous. Be VERY careful getting it out of the car.
Gasoline fumes will run snakes out of a car, ought to do a number on most animals. I think bugs have to get poison ON them for it to work.

 

im moving to cali in a month near LA, just wondering if this "killer bee" thing is all its hyped up to bee? lol no joke though i saw some show on it...

 

Its a myth that Daddy Long Legs have strong venom, they are harmless. If they had fangs long enough to bite a human and envenomate you it wouldn't even make you sick.
You just have to be smart when working on old tin that hasn't been touched in years, yeah try it over here 9 of the worlds 10 most deadly snakes and the two of the top three spiders.
But like many have said before, its the airborne particles in animal excrement that will probably do you the most harm.
Remember spiders and snakes will only bite you if they feel threatened, like you put your big assed hand down to close. Look first!

Having said that, Australian spiders and snakes are aggressive and if you come close some snakes will chase you from 20ft away. Our spiders are like that too, especialy the Funnel Web Spider. Both wont bite once either, they keep biting and envenomating untill you are no longer a threat or dead.

 

My wife was a passenger in her mum's car one day many years ago with our daughter in a safety seat in the back when a huge huntsman spider came out from under the dash and started crawlng up the column towards the steering wheeel. They were in traffic, but mum hit the brakes anyway and bailed out of the car, leaving it running in the middle of the road. Deb had to get the baby out of the back seat first, (2 door Ford Capri/Pinto) so she had to turn her back on the spider to rescue her child!

They managed to move the car off the road, and Deb tracked the spider down and beat it to death with a newspaper.

Cheers, Glen.

 

while cleaning out my 39 buick i found two tins of trojan condoms,after opening up the tins,found out they were from the 40s..looked like black "o" rings!! E-baY????

 

I just finished cleaning out a 89 S10 blazer that was T-boned. It,s a doner car for my roadster project, all I founed was some grass &weeds growing in the carpet,lots of broken glass $ 39.67 in change. That was like a 10% rebate.

 

These are the exact reasons i dont go the junkyards in the warm months. I only go in late fall to early spring. The vegetation at yards around here is so bad that something is guarenteed to attempt to eat you as youre pulling parts from a car. Pulled 3 wheels from a junkyard about a month ago and inside one tire was a nest of black widows, and the other wheel was crawling with them. made my brothers girlfriend carry it. lol

 

I drug home a 67 Chevelle SS car that had a HUGE possum nest in the trunk...... i had no keys for the car and needed to get the trunk open and unbolted the latch from the back seat area... I was digging around the trunk with my bare hands.... then when i popped the trunk there was momma possum staring up at me hissing.... Scary stuff

 

i work for a towing company. we have 2 yards. one is right next to the crusher the other is 10 miles away. i do all the crusher cars yard to yard at night. lots of live mice, possums, and bugs. haven't found any snakes yet. i hate doing red tag removals since you never know what you are going to disturb.

 

Well, I learned my lesson. Before picking up the new De Soto in South Carolina this weekend, I asked the guy selling car if he would get someone to clean out the car. I offered $100 to not have to deal with the unknown. Sure as hell while they were cleaning out the car the day before I got there, they found a rat's nest with a live one just hanging out waiting for me to freak out. Fortunately, all I had to bring home this time was rusty metal. Left all the trash and scary stuff (I hope) in South Carolina. But then, I wonder what's under the dash?

Since starting this post, I've yet to clean out the '54. Looks like a whole family of something was living in there and now, after reading all these stories, I'm as chicken shit as you can get! I've bug bombed in once and am now thinking I'll get a power washer and keep my distance.

 

While working in a small rod shop here, we did a run of mid 50s Chevy wagons. While cleaning out the first one, I noticed the headliner sagging badly. Boss said it was the only headliner we had and needed to save it for a pattern. Okay. I was working very slow and careful, when the middle of the headliner opened wide and let loose a flood of rats nest stuffing, directly over my head - the likes of which hadn't been seen before, or since! Station wagons use a really long headliner and this one was stuffed tight the whole way - I loaded up six large leaf bags with the stuff! Puked twice while doing it, then went home to change and shower and puked again (and I have a pretty strong stomach) - it was the worst thing I've ever experienced.

 

Bought a 59 GMC out of a junkyard. I was poking around with a screwdriver, and tapping with a hammer to knock the crap out of the cab corners. Found about 10 live, 22 bullets. Fortunately none went off.

 

On the '60 Chrysler I recently had transported from SC to my in the Netherlands I found some interesting 'homes' under the car. Never seen those before. Luckily the inhabitants had left the buildings already.