Stuff in your car

[BA.]

I'm sure we've all found some unusual things in our cars when we have disassembled them.

Here's a pic of my latest grab out of the passenger rocker rail area (under carpet, jute and metal cover thing) and also from the A/C vent in the pass. kick panel.

Long ago I had found a book of matches from a, ahem, "Gentlemens Club" in southern California and also found an empty beer can stashed in the drivers side kick-panel vent.

Now I'm looking at some odd bolts, an ear-ring, some rivets (??), lots and lots of desert sand, a handful of animal fur, broken glass that I had never known about......lots of weird stuff.

Oh, we also found an old black T-shirt! It was tucked up in the A/C opening at the FW from back when my buddy and I drove it from 29 Palms, Ca. to the midwest when it was about 40 degrees out. No Heater!! Winter coats on, foggin up the glass, our breath was foggin IN the car driving back. Good stuff. Cold as **** though!

[Tucks69]

A friend gave me a 71 Malibu about 10 years ago. It was a 6 cylinder with a glide. The car sat outside my shop until I decided to build a bracket car out of it. During the build up I saw a bag stuffed up between the quarter and the back window. I was almost afraid to pull it out. I opened the bag and found nude photo's of a woman. I had never seen her so I threw them away. The funny part was a couple years later I had the car at work fixing to go to the Friday night street drags. A lady from the next building walked over looking at the car . She told me her husband used to have a car like that. That's when I put the two together. She was the lady in the pictures.:lol: Needless to say I couldn't look at her with a straight face after that day!! What are the odds of that happining!!

Mike

[Restomod]

Found a 1956 penny jammed in the bottom corner of a 1957 Chevy door. $15 worth of change in anouther car,Snap On tools,all kinds of stuff.........

[Project69]

I had a dead cocaroach, BMW lighter...dunno why that was in there and a very old penny that was dated to like 1970, couldnt read it that well, all that fell out of my heater core box when i took it out:lmao:

[rocketrod]

I found a dead mouse behind the driver side kick panel.

[Project69]

I found a dead mouse behind the driver side kick panel.


:eek: I guess i got lucky with the whole dead roach then huh lol

[Chad-1stGen]

Found some old pot in a bunch of the parts from the interior already removed by the previous owner. Don't know if he stashed it there or it was stuck to one of the interior parts.

[Gordz32]

A friend gave me a 71 Malibu about 10 years ago. It was a 6 cylinder with a glide. The car sat outside my shop until I decided to build a bracket car out of it. During the build up I saw a bag stuffed up between the quarter and the back window. I was almost afraid to pull it out. I opened the bag and found nude photo's of a woman. I had never seen her so I threw them away. The funny part was a couple years later I had the car at work fixing to go to the Friday night street drags. A lady from the next building walked over looking at the car . She told me her husband used to have a car like that. That's when I put the two together. She was the lady in the pictures.:lol: Needless to say I couldn't look at her with a straight face after that day!! What are the odds of that happining!!

Mike


That is Hilarious!!! Small World Huh!

[protour_chevelle]

When bringing my sisters 01 Eclipse up we found a baby alligator in the air intake tube dried up.

Stripped a rolled 71 SS chevelle and found beating sticks under the rear seat, belly club of sorts behind the door panel, and family birthday cards lol.

Oh and a ashtray full of roaches(think weed) hahah

-Matt

[fletcherscustoms]

Not anything crazy or unusual really

In "Shop Beater" I found 4 quarters, 2 dimes, and a couple of pennies in the passenger rocker. All dated 1969. We cleaned them up undercoated the inside of the new rocker and then epoxyed them to the new rocker before installing. Figured someone in 50 years would find them and make mint off them for being so old.

Other than that just the normal junk-- shoes, shovel, tools, clothes, mail, old newspaper, and a 7 inch old school TV!!

[CRCRFT78]

Lost my Albino Burmese Python (about 4.5 feet) in my grandmothers car one day. She found it sitting on her passenger seat a few days later and just tossed it in a bag like it wasn't s***. Then called me a said she found it while driving.

[Steve68]

My fisrt 68 bought in 85, I found a registration of the previous owner which happened to be my dad friend, which I knew too, I saw numerous pics of the car in varius stages, but it was a real nice car in the late 70's

I did go have to retreive my Cat 18lb big Tom, this was in 87, car was ripping in two, so I took all the good parts off of it and sold it, well I couldn't find my cat and the guys called and sid he was stuck in the car SCARED, well thses guys drove the car 25-30 miles with open headers, no wonder the cat was scared, he had wedged him self up in the quarter, way up there!

[1970cuda]

A friend of mine that pasted away a few years ago used to hide a proof set of coins under the dash of his cars he had. He thought that it would be neat for who ever bought the cars if they ever needed to do something under the the dash. He had a 69 SS Camaro, 65 mayfair maize Gto, 65 corvette convert with a factory 396, 69 Gto, 73 TA,69 Firefird 400 convert and several others (yes his family had $). So if you ever find a proof coin set under the dash of a car, I know that it would make him happy to know that someone that loves cars has one of his old ones.

[BonzoHansen]

Back when I was in the service biz, a customer came in with a 93-ish Civic. She complained that the blower fan made noise. Now, you know what blower fan cages look like. Kind of like a gerbil wheel. Well, we found a little dead field mouse in it. I've always pictured this little mouse running for his life on that wheel, until he couldn't run no more. :help:

[baz67]

I had a dead cocaroach, BMW lighter...dunno why that was in there and a very old penny that was dated to like 1970, couldnt read it that well, all that fell out of my heater core box when i took it out:lmao:

Um, so anything dated to 1970 is very old. Holy crap, I guess I am very old now.:headbang:

[BADVELLE]

Wasp nest in the '67 Cougar I am building for a friend. I am saving it and I am going to hang it from the rearview when done!:Alchy:

[bookends]

found a dead cat in a 66 c10 my cousin was parting out

[6'9"Witha69]

Back when I was in the service biz, a customer came in with a 93-ish Civic. She complained that the blower fan made noise. Now, you know what blower fan cages look like. Kind of like a gerbil wheel. Well, we found a little dead field mouse in it. I've always pictured this little mouse running for his life on that wheel, until he couldn't run no more. :help::rotfl:

Most I ever found in my car besides a build sheet on top of the gas tank and the protectoplate were leaves in the cowl and behind the kick panels.

Wait, does jerry rigged wiring count??

[BonzoHansen]

Wasp nest in the '67 Cougar I am building for a friend. I am saving it and I am going to hang it from the rearview when done!:Alchy:We had a mid-70s Chevy pickup that was basically abandoned in our lot. So we started scalping parts off it for lunch money (the unmolested 4 bolt 350 is in my garage). I sold the tailgate to some guy, and when I went to take it off, I discovered a yellow jacket nest had appeared in the tailgate behind the handle assembly. As soon as I touched the handle to pull the door down, out came a bunch of bees…with predictable results... :scared:



found a dead cat in a 66 c10 my cousin was parting out
Man, if you are in the service bis long enough, cats are a given. I've seen two kitties that thought the engine compartment was a warm place to sleep...with predictable results... :poke: :angel:

Then there was the customer who brought the truck in with deer spread all over the bottom. Stunk up the bays pretty good. He told us he hit a deer, so we were expecting damage…just not deer guts. :crying:

[Jim Nilsen]

In my trunk when I brought my car home was a wheel chock, it has been used many times.It was just one of those cheap foldable ones but it really works and I just can't get myself to throw it away.

Jim Nilsen

[Hack Job]

I found a pair of pliers in the bottom of the fender in my chevelle when I pulled it off.

I found an X-rated audio casette under the seat of my 94 S-10 shortly after I bought it. Its was erotic stories and stuff. Who listens to that while they drive? LOL

[woody80z28]

Just a whole crapload of snake skins.. that's all. Luckily that was the parts car, not the one I'm actually working on!

[Patrick]

I found a Beer Can in pretty good condition stuffed in the drivers side kick panel- interesting little story that Steven R. put in the Mag.

https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12667

I have also found various tools, nicest being 1/2" Mac Rachet with extension.

[shmoov69]

My 58 Nomad had a original key in perfect shape stuffed under the seat under the carpet. It is the Briggs & Stratton key. The 69 just had lots of newspaper and bondo with a little bit of shag carpet to stick the mud to!

[Dr.Olds]

I found a box of shotgun shells and a lead pipe in the trunk of my first '85 Regal......not sure what that guy was up to!