What's the coolest thing you found in an old car?

That's funny, I thought the same thing!

 

My air cleaner lid was missing on my Imperial when I bought it. Found it under the front seat. Not very cool and interesting but I was extremely happy. The back seat was filled full of mouse nests and loose change.

 

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I found an old box of Marlboro cigarettes behind the glove box of a car I was working on. Still new and wrapped in cellophane, but obviously several years old.

I thought I would smoke 'em.....and didn't make it past the first puff.
Good god, they were nnnaaassssty!

 

Found a 1968 Ka-Bar in the fender well of the trunk in the wife's 56 DeSoto, sheath and all!

 

Ha! I had one of those about 1966!

 

a small bag of weed !!!

 

The coolest thing i ever found was..... Myself! i'm pretty cool driving that ol' 57 ford f-100 around...haha!!!! sorry, had to do it ....dont hate guys

 

When I was writing service at a Ford dealership, a guy brought in a new Ranger p/u with an airbag light on- He was quite possibly the biggest asswipe I've ever met, whining and crying that his new truck was a lemon blah blah blah.
A tech checked it out and it was throwing a code for a bad underseat harness, which had to be special-ordered. More whining and crying like it was the end of the world.
The next Saturday he came in to have the harness replaced. Again he whined and threatened like the P.O.S he was.
A few hours later, the tech came to me and said the wrong harness had come in.... but the reason the harness was bad was that the customer had wedged a wooden box under the seat.... a box full of weed and a triple-beam scale.
I called the customer and told him the harness we ordered was wrong. Before I could get to the part about the box, he screamed that he would be right over to kick the crap out of all of us.
An hour later, I'm in the back lot with two police officers who were dropping off their Crown Vic' when I hear my name being paged to the service drive. Sure enough, it's tough guy holding a baseball bat. As I round the corner, he starts pounding the bat into his open palm....until he sees the two cops right behind me. He looked around quickly and sees the wooden box on my desk.

Panic covers his face while he decides what to do.

He drops the bat and runs away.

His mom picked up the truck 2 days later.

 

Found this heart shape metal or silver thing out of my 87 911 turbo i was converting too a track car ,and gave it too my wife and she didn't mind the car after that.

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1950'S "Joy of Cooking" cookbook. Great reading, especially some of the items you can just "pick up at the local market or butcher shop".

 

Shit that's funny. I bet he looked for that spanner for weeks. Hope ya left it there.

 

Found a real nice Case folding lockblade knife. But then I lost it in some old car in a junkyard. Karma I guess.

 

I found the fingers, I thought I was the only one who had found body parts

 

I found a half used can of Copenhagen, empty Coors and a whole bunch of receipts for gas in my 1963 chevy C60.

 

I found a whole bunch of change and old marbles and a coin from Dodge Brothers in a 36 Dodge that I was building, sold the Dodge coin for $153.00 on the big E

 

I've heard of lead pipe all my life but never seen any except lead drain pipe

 

found a 1967 quarter under the factory undercoating on a nonhamb friendly mustang fastback gt that we restored at work

 

The build sheet for my Galaxie,and a hand written list of all the things that was done to the motor. Unfortunatly, when I called the number,it didn't work!

 

Modt intresting thing I ever found was this Bucheimer

 

Took out the rear seat of a 1968 Roadrunner that I purchased for $100.00. The car had been sitting behind a gas station in Pine Valley, California. I found three of those pantyhose mask thingys that liquor store robbers use over their faces and about $125.00 in loose quarters and other change. The ex-owner was some girl from El Centro. I figured the fast car was used for robberies at some point and dumped in the desert. First time I ever "got paid" to buy a car!!

 

25 lighters.

 

Friend bought a nice 55 Pontiac field car. Vintage Ludwig foot peddle under the seat. The car was complete minus the hood trim. Two weeks later, bought a 56 Chevy wagon parts car from 2 hours away. Under all the junk in the back was 2 nice sets of 55 Pontiac hood trims. That was pretty cool.


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For give my ignorance but what is it and what do you do with it?

 

I found a set of craftsman wrenchs and a eastwing hammer in the trunk of my model a

 

A brand new set of Craftsman 1/2 in dr. ratchet and sockets. This was in 1964. Still have and use 'em.

 

It's a blackjack, Google it and you'll see.

 

It get one's attention, guick/easy & fast!

 

When I took over possesion of grandpas 49 stude pick-up there was a corn picker in the box .. yep an original piece of history ! for all the youngens out there way befor all the huge green n red machines guys like my granpa harvested by HAND ! A glove with a hook attached to it did the job 1 ear at a time .. I remember moveing the truck ahead as he picked and tossed it in the back . man them guys were tough ! anyone want to try it on 100 acers ?

 

I have seen it done, The Masonic Home of Maryland, Bonny Blink, still has a Corn Husking Breakfast, no more corn, just lots of sausage links. (at least I hope it still happens)