Found a set of long tube doug thorleys for a SBC in the ditch one day. WTF is with everyone leaving engine parts in the ditches? hmm...
What? Who Cares Who Wins?? Who, what, where and why are you? Fucking AJs thought I had escaped them here. I bet your a steward at RMC or something like that right??
I was a mailman for 30 years.I have found all kinds of stuff that people put out on the curb for pickup.Right now I can remember getting a set of 67 Camaro bucket seats and a Holley carb with the list number that matched a 1964 Chevelle with the 396.Once found a cross-bolted 427 Ford long block but it was so rusty that I didn't go back for it.Wish I had now though.
Back when I used to do running,when out training I was always picking up tools and nuts and bolts and other bits but the best was the complete 302 cleveland thats now the motor in my rod.I had the engine number checked out by my next door neighbour(just happens to be a police officer) everything was O.K. so it ended up in the rod. Found a V6 Holden(Buick) motor last year so that now sits in the shed waiting for something to fit into.Also picked up 2 builders ladders on the side of the road last year,they came in real handy as I was building my new house at the time.But what are you supposed to do with all the stuff you find,hand it in or use it. I call it relocating. Keep on roddin'
my house in San Antonio is out in the country and one day a boat and trailer appeared on the side of the road..we looked at it everyday for a couple of weeks as we were coming and going..I got closer to it one day and noticed it had two blown tires, old fiberglas 50s boat with fins, nice trailer,probably took the engine with them..finally, I jacked it up,took the wheels and had tires put on and towed it up my driveway..nice boat, 59 Impala lookin wheel,wraparound windshield in good shape..score!...Well, I used to be in the abandoned car business so don't get me started....
When I would commute to work on my bicycle I would stop and pick up all kinds of stuff. I pays to stop, I added alot of Snap-on tools to my collection. Beat the hell out of buying them off the truck! But now I don't work so I still go out on rides and find stuff it's the thrill of the hunt!
in 2000, back when i lived in North Carolina. i found a 32 ford frame haft buried in the ground. on top a 3 window body w/ no doors or roof.
I found an old working Logan lathe with tooling being thrown out on the street in Hollywood!. It's in my garage now. -stick
I found an old bullock drawn plough in a bramble patch over at my house in France, made a nasty mess of the blade of my weed eater.
O/T but a neat story anyway. My dad loves to tell a story about my great uncle that liked to call the cops about shit all the time so they got to the point that any time he'd call about somthing they'd never beleive him and dismiss his call. He was apparently a little off kilter by anyones standard. My uncle used to walk up and down the old country road that pretty much all of our family lived on or around and still does. I live there now even. Well one day ( this was back in the 40's or early 50's ) someone had robbed a bank somewhere and were being chased by the cops down his road. The robbers started dumping the guns they used and the heavy money bags (coins and such) out the car windows. Unbeknown to the fuzz. Anyhow, my uncle walked down the road the next day like he always did and started finding rifles, pistols and bags of money. Being a good ol' american citizen he called the police and told them about the guns and money he'd found and they would'nt believe him. So he just kept it all. And gave some of the guns away to friends and family. I've got a 20 gauge shotgun that my dads older brother owned before he died in the late fifties that he thinks is one of em'. That reminds me, I think I'll take a walk when I get home!
When I was in high school I found a '28 Chey Sedan body, less front fenders, straight and pretty rust free, laying in the ditch. Dad wouldn't let me take the trailer and go get it. He later apologized.
Don't send me to Jockey Journal but I ended up getting a completely original Bonanza BC1500SH Minibike with it's original Hodaka Ace 100 2-stroke for 50 bucks. just checked ebay a few days ago and a shitty one sold for 2,500! hahaha!
To do that any more you gotta get there early because now a bunch of scrapers come through and grab any metal they find! "No respect for good junk"
my friend tater found one of those high end electrical testers that duke power uses. it just fell out the back of the truck as they were pulling off, they also left a really sweet aluminum wheel chock.
years ago when I was 13 or 14, I found 5 cans of beer (1 was missing from the 6 pack) I drank them and passed out in the front yard. the next morning , my old man stepped over me as he was going to work, shook his head and said "fucking hippy" good times !!!
Couple of years ago, me and my dad were walking through the woods looking for glass bottles and stuff, saw some metal laying on top of the ground, and realized it was some fenders and hoods, went back an year ago and realize it was an complete '53 Mercury front clip. Packed it out of the woods and stored it in my garage. Once found some '55 Chevy Fenders and bumper stuffed into an nearly collapsed shed on some old property we used to own. Sold the fenders and the bumpers I still have. When I made one of my major barn finds, we were walking around in the old lady's garden, took some sheetmetal off this tree stump thing, and it turned out to be an late-mercury flathead V8, all complete, with an broken crank. Dug it up, and its now stored in the back of an Chevette. Another strange find, was walking across this beam/plank bridge, and spotted something shiny in the creek below, checked it out, and it was an perfectly preserved '57 Buick grill held up by honeysuckle vines. Still have that too.
Yeah, what is it with porn mags on the side of the road? When I worked for the township, I'd come across rotted porn mags on the side of the road all the time...like someone was driving around flinging their porn out the windows! Never found any car mags or anything, just porn ones! I didn't get it... Never found any really cool car parts or engines though.
When I was stationed in Alaska, we would do field training in the winter to practice fighting in the cold. During one of the field exercises I dove behind a tree and when I got up the there was blood all over my right leg. Wondering what caused the cut I felt around in the snow and found an open letherman.
i found my ass! with both hands! ohh, and guy on first page with indian skull!!!your retarded! put that fuckin thing in a whole! thats just bad BAD KARMA ive got a 34 international pu cab and frame. founr in woods. onwer said take it! i cut down 10 trees and drug it up a gully 200 yards. the guy has since passed and i dont know if ill ever get it now!
yeah, has "the family guy" t.v. show taught us nothing? go bury "chief diamond phillips" right away so your house doesn't implode.
Some of my best stuff was free or near free, wouldnt recommend this now, but when I was a teenager into Camaros (1981), I wanted a posi rear badly but had no money of course. one day riding my dirtbike on a trail a mile or so back in the woods, I found a new stolen WS6 turbo TransAm partially stripped and burned ,looked like only the interior was removed, and the engine trashed. I reported it to the cops, and they said 'yea we know about it, we'll get to it eventually'. So I thought,hmmm,that suspension stuff will fit my car, which was an early 70s model and went back with tools and removed the positrac disk brake rear, M/C and all the big WS6 sway bars and springs and and put them on my camaro, even put on the WS6 doorhandles that said "4 wheel disk". guys would ask if it was some rare factory option like the JL8 setup on 69 camaros More recent stuff i found was a 40 Ford Deluxe coupe, rusted beyond hope but did manage to salvage the complete rolling front axle and 3 wheels, an old GULF OIL sign up in the attic of my old office. I love freebies
A 59 panhead,, laying on it's side in the dirt/mud came from an old wooden shed that was gonna be knocked down. Few broken fins but it's still on the road today so.
OK that one hurts... I don't find cool stuff like that laying around. All I got out of the garden was half a rusty 1926 IL license plate...
I was on tour last yr with my old band, in or near Daytona right before the 500. On our way to the waffle house me and a few of the guys come across almost $200 scattered in new twenties (ATM style) on the ground. Off to the waffle house, and it didnt sit well with me. Pick up cash on the ground, its yours, but this was different, all new bills, and during the week of the 500 seemed to be the vacation ruiner for some family. Get back the lobby, ask the front desk person, and it turned out that it belonged to an old disabled Vietnam Vet in a wheelchair. I told the guys that we WERE giving the money back and to cough it up. I have never seen a happier man in my life, it was his last $200 (guess he was on some sort of government income) and didnt think things like this happened anymore. Worth more than the cash for sure.
A friend had a modern house in a subdevelopment. Leftover dirt pile in his back yard that I happen to need for my backyard. So we're digging it out, and the pile was on a hill. Anyway, we must've dug into the hill below the line of the dirt pile we were supposed to be taking, because we hit a truck bed. 20s/30s era metal frame for a truck bed to be specific. The whole deal, it probably had wood when buried. We excavated enough to make sure there wasnt a truck under, (wasn't) and reburied. Been there too long and was tinfoil thin.
Friend bought a Buick Riv at the police auction. Paid $105, drove it home. Key switch jimmied. We busted the trunk open, found: .45 automatic and 400 Springsteen tickets(2 days too late) and about 28 one dollar bills rolled up stuck in the seats. Gave the gun to the cops.........OLDBEET
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