I bought a '65 GTO in '68 with a tired motor. I was working in a NAPA machine shop at the time, and we all believed the engine to be unopened from the Pontiac people. When we tore the engine apart, we found a 9/16 box end in the oil pan!!!!????!!! (Snapon) Thanks, Mike
funny, similar but more OT...my mom took her daily (only) into random shop and they ripped her off pretty good for a starter R&R. ever since then she hears clank in the engine. and wants me to look. sitting on the engine bank are a 1" and a 1 1/8" SnapOn combo wrenches. what they were doing with those on a Jap car starter i'll never know.
i found a live 22 shell in the a piller of my 29. unfortunetly its because it went off wen i was welding up a rust hole. wire hit it , no one got hurt , but shure scared the hell out of me. look befor you leap (weld)
My 1934 Ford P/U. I was removing the windshield frame and found above the header panel a church key (can opener) I looked up the brand of beer that was advertised and it was from 1936! It is now on the trucks keychain.
Back around 79 I used to take parts off of dumped cars.One cold winters night I saw a 77 Trans am with no wheels between a dumped truck and a fence.I wanted the dash guage panel so I went to look inside,the door was wedged open.I looked down to see what was holding the door open,and it was a guys foot,and he was naked.Like I said it was cold winter,and the guy wasnt moving.I figured he was dead,and got the hell out of there!
As I was examining an Olds crankshaft to see if it would need to be counter-bored to install a pilot bearing to change from automatic trans to stick shift, I discovered what appeared to be a large washer pressed into the end of the crank. When I dislodged the item I realized it was the broken-off head of an intake valve.
I found a cool old ice scraper ...the visor type that the fillin' station used to give out,better yet it was in perfect shape
I think in my case the question might be....what didn't I find in my car? Sorry I didn't get pictures of all the mouse skeletons (8?)
My local tire shop has a huge glass bowl on the customer counter containing all the stuff they have found INSIDE customers' tires. large rocks, nails, screws, pocket knives, wheel weights INSIDE the tires .
I found a full spray can of paint down in the lower quarter of a 52 Ford by welding a fender skirt bracket to the bottom. Did you know an exploding paint can will rip out the bottom of a 1/4 panel and cover the shop floor with flaming paint? Damn near lost the car and the shop with that on! My buddy (who owned the car) swore I musta hit the gas tank it was such an explosion, was'nt till things cooled off we found the remains of the paint can. Found a real nice air drill above the headliner looking for a rattle in a new Chevy van at a dealer in the 70's, vise grips on frame rails were commen from the factory.
bout a hundred brown recluse popped out of my truck after i washed it and it dried of the the next day. scared the shit out of me.. im still findin the fuckers.. in the dead of winter!!!
A while back I changed the front seat in my driver from a ripped vinyl bench with bad foam to a velour in better shape I saved from a parts truck. So in the process of hauling the old seat out, I found a folded $20 in the crack of the seat. I guess it paid to do that job finally, I'd been dragging my feet on doing it for a few months and I finally needed the space the new seat was taking up in the garage. Is it bad that I don't remember that I lost it? In my own car? There's no way it was there before I got it, the thing was bone clean except for the last plates that had been on it. I wonder if it's also bad that when I get a car with seat covers in bad shape, I just change the whole seat? I guess it's not a bad way to find crap.
ran a salvage yard for 20 yrs and found lot of interesting stuff. dope, body parts in wrecks, family bible, 22 bullitts that went off when cuttin off a 1/4 panel. bumper jack handle that had been used as a murder weapon,
My cousin was Changing the bench seat in his 81 Chev Pickup, a few weeks ago and found this.The truck was originally from Georgia but hes the 2nd owner since its come to Ontario.It looks like its been there a while. He did a search and found out its a german hand gun circa ww2. Still loaded, not very usefull. He truned it over to the cops and there gonna see if it was used in any crimes yada yada.
Not as good as some of the finds, but when I was taking apart the roof of my 32 Woody, I found the original owners registration. Nice to know alittle of the wagons history
Probably a common occurrence, I found both frame rails of my shoebox Ford crammed full of nut shells, twigs, acorns, and various other crap brought in by field mice or other small critters. Had to cut out a section to fit a vacuum hose to pull it all out....glad I found it. (Air cleaner was full too.)
I got my '51 a few months ago,it was sitting beside a barn for quite a while. The interior was all torn up and the trunk was full of misc. parts,under the front seat I found a half skeleton of a cat-sized animal,not absolutely sure it was a cat,it had bigger teeth! Other than that i found a huge nest of twigs & garbage on the floor,and under the back seat. The car was sitting all that time with the inspection covers on the front floor removed,so the car was probably a transient hotel for all kinds of rodents.
Finders Keepers A federal judge ruled that Helen Chappell, 77, of Kansas City, Mo., could keep $82,000 that was found in the gas tank of a car she bought at a federal auction for $5,400. Chappell and her son Jeffrey bought the 1965 Volkswagen Golf "as is," but it quickly developed a fuel problem. A mechanic found the cash floating in the tank. The government seized the money, claiming it was profits from illegal drug trafficking. U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey said the government could have kept the money if it had found it before selling the car, and she said it should have. First, the gas gauge was malfunctioning. Second, Laughrey said, since the late 1960s, "when Easy Rider was aired, the government was on notice that drug dealers use gas tanks to hide their contraband." Looks like "as is" could have advantages
bought a 56 Ford truck once..found a 20 foot chain,and some old tools.. bought a 56 Ford car for parts..It came with a cigerette vending machine full of old silver coins. bought a 55 chev once..It had a 283 / 4 speed under the hood ,and a 409 in the trunk..crager mags in the back seat.and bees that wouldn't leave! bought a 65 chev truck, it came with 50 pounds of bondo wrapped around it. 1939fiat
Yeah, I found a 1930's penny in the door of my 29 Tudor and 3 x $20 bills tucked inside a tear in the front seat of my custom 300, must have been kept there for spare gas money or maybe for hookers!
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