Crazy finds after purchase!!!! STORIES ?

[Guest]

I'm going to start this post here, If its in the wrong place, "please tell me" ;I was cleaning out my 51, today. Striping all the old bating & 4! old seat covers "all with hog rings!" getting them ready for blasting tomorrow .While cleaning up, I find a 1944 mercury dime!!!!" For any coin buffs "My wife is" it is in almost mint condition, You can see the braid and feathers. I've got more, but lets see what happens to "this" post 1st. "I got to see what this dime is worth any way" <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> What interesting things have you found ? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ??????????////

[brad54]

That's very cool! I actually used to collect Mercury dimes when I was a kid--I still like them, and would like to start again, actually.

The only sorta cool thing I ever found was when I brought my '54 home, there were three mouse nests in it, and one of them had shreds of newspapers; I couldn't find a date on the papers, but one headline was intact, talking about "the new Ed Sullivan Show." I can only guess that the keeper of the car also had a lot of old newspapers stashed in the garage too, as I doubt that mouse nest was in there since the car was brand new.

-Brad

[DavidS]

A couple of years ago I was parting out a 1953 Packard Clipper for parts. Aside from the usual pennies and other flotsom, when I took out the back seat and found a handful of bobby pins and those tiny buttons that women used to have on their cashmire sweaters. A well used back seat apparently. But the best part was that I found a regimental ring from the the Queen's Own Rifles [a Canadian regiment], from WWII.

[Guest brh]

Had a 34 Olds and while taking out the seats we found a 1935 Nickle.

[Guest Dans 77 Limited]

When I bought my 77 in 2001, I got the car from a friend who had bought it from an estate sale six months earlier. Tony (my friend)had never cleaned the car out when he had bought it and it still had all of the original owners things in the trunk & glove compartment. As I was cleaning out the glove compartment I found a slip of paper and for some reasom I opened it up & I got the shock of a lifetime. On the slip of paper was my name,and my Fathers adress and phone number. The slip of paper also had insurance information for a 73 Dodge Coronet that I had owned in 1984. I was to put it mildly..... stunned. After thinking about it for a few minutes I did remember hitting a blue car one day in that old Dodge, the then middle aged owner had come across the yellow line to go around a parked delivery truck and I couldnt stop. He got all of the car back over the yellow line with the exception of the left corner of the back bumper, I hit that with my Dodge and cleaned the rear bumper right off of the other car.But this couldnt be the same car , Id of sworn on my mothers grave the other car was a full sized 4 door Oldsmobile, not a 2 door Buick. We exchanged info and made a few phone calls back and forth before deciding we would each fix our own cars, that worked for me ... I only had a scratch in my bumper . I remembered the guys phone exchange was Grenntree, a southern Pittsurgh suburb close to where the accident happened and also close to my Fathers home, so I called Tony up and asked him where he had found the car and sure enough it was from Greentree. I never saw the original owner of my car again but all these years later I can now say that Ive owned both of the cars involved in the accident. You know what they say about truth being stranger than fiction <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Dan

[brad54]

I was just over at a friend's shop, and he blew apart a '58 Impala I wouldn't think would be anything but a parts car. Anyway, he shows me this little round plastic container with a snap-on lid that looks like a thing of lip balm he found under the back seat. Guess what? Condoms didn't always come in the little plastic wrappers! I'd have sworn it was a girl's lip gloss container or something, but upon inspection, the container said "Sultan Condoms."

Feel kinda sorry for the poor guy who lost it in the seat that night! You just know he was frantically looking everywhere, and 15 minutes later was the long, silent ride home.

[GMPARTSMAN]

Many beer can pull-tabs, beer bottle caps,a porno collection,and roaches

(no, not insects!) in the ash trays in a 1960's car that I

bought in the 1980's that had been parked at least ten years. If that car

could talk, I don't think I would want to hear what it would say!!!!

[Guest]

Hay guys, thanks for sharing.since we're talking about them, I found 3 old condoms still in the wrapper ( poor guy!)under the seat in my 49(chevy)pick-up, when I first cleaned it out. I don't know how long they've been mak'in em. But I can't find anybody who has ever seen these brands?

[Guest]

Bump! Anymore from the new guys? Or old.

[Guest 31tudor]

Put a windshield in the '62 Invicta on Saturday. The top dash piece was loose, so we pulled it out for a little more working room, and there was a penny! I carefully manuvered a pair of angle jaw needle nose pliers down in the crevice to pick it out, and to my wondering eyes the date 1995 appeared! Oh well, after reading this I was hoping to find something better!

[Guest 70 Electra]

Under the back seat of my own 70 Electra convertible, I found a library card from 1970 that belonged to the original owners sister-in-law.

Does it count if it's not your personal car? During the early-mid seventies, I worked at a Buick dealer in Virginia. My primary job was to recondition the trade-ins for the used car lot. Over the years, items found more than once included: hand guns (front seat), small liquor bottles (front or rear seat), condoms (rear seat), and pocket knives (rear seat).

[JohnD1956]

I got my 56 in 1974, and just took the back seat out for the first time in 2001, where upon I found a 56 Dime. I'm going to rip out the interiors of my two 69's to see whats in there...( just kidding ).

[Erndog]

While sifting through the debris that the seats had become in my 1930 model 61, my son found two 1920's pennies. Of course, I didn't let on that I had planted them for him to find. I figured it would be something he would remember for a long time. Now he has a little bit of attachment to the car and wants to help me whenever I work on it, even when there is no chance of finding anything.

[billbuickgs]

I was installing new carpet in our 70 GSX and after removing the passenger bucket seat, I noticed a hump in the under layment that is glued to the floor at the factory with a rust colored glue. I figured it would be a nut or something covered during production.

As I cut around the hump, I was shocked to see a gold tigar eye ring that had to be lost by someone installing the padding after the glue was sprayed on.

My wife didn't beleave me until I layed the ring back in place and put the flap over it. I don't wear the ring because it is lose when I put it on my thumb, its hugh!

Bill

[Guest Curt Fouse]

A 51 Hudson yielded 2 big Black snakes! We got a 64-1/2 mustang convertible that had been used by WVU students and it had a sack of grass in the trunk.

Curt

[brad54]

The snakes reminded me--

I had my '54 parked out back in the "Field of Dreams" with the rest of the "somedays" for about two months in Florida. I pulled it into the shop and put it on the lift to replace the brake and fuel lines and install a dual reservoir brake master cylinder. About 1 am, a spider egg hatched, and hundreds of baby black widows started raining down on their little silk threads. I did what any car guy would do and grabbed the can of Carb Cleaner and started spraying everywhere. I continued spraying in all the nooks, crannies and everywhere else I though a spider could lay eggs when a baby rattle snake shot out of a hole I was spraying about a foot over my head. It's amazing how fast you'll move when a snake is shooting toward your face!

[Don McClair]

In the mid to late 60's GM had a "Zero Defects" program. In April of 1967 I ordered a new 442 Oldsmobile and from new there was a hump in the carpet just in front of the passenger bucket seat. Some time later I installed a rear seat speaker and had removed the right door sill plate to run the wire to the rear package shelf. When I lifted the carpet to run the wire under the carpet I found what the "hump" was. It was a flattened paper "Zero Defects" coffee cup. Apparently that assembly line worker did not think too much of the companies program to reduce defects.

[Guest 31tudor]

Now that's funny!

My dad worked on the GM assembly line in '63, installing tailgates on the wagons. His co-worker who installed the lock mechanism on the tailgate, disgruntled about his job, threw an extra lock inside of every other tailgate just so it would rattle. I wonder how many of those are still around?

[BUICK RACER]

Well, let's see, the '56 Special from GA had a letter in the glove compartment to or from a guy in the service to his girlfriend, I wonder if I still have it or left it in the car, when I sold it? The '70 GSX had lots of mouse nests and nothing else exciting, considering the previous owner, before the guy I bought it from had raced a Testerossa in Chicago and blew the orginal SS motor up, I do have the block. The Chicago owner called me a couple of years ago and told me the story and wanted to know if I still had the car! Then there was the '66 Electra, that was stuck in the ground and the back brakes were totally frozed, we did the beat the brake drums off with a hammer. The owner used a tractor to pull it out and some how we got it on the trailer. What did we find is the mail from the day he must have parked it, which was about the time the extended warrany expired. This guy was a doctor and apparently would end the driving experience when the warranty expired and park it in his yard. But inside under the dash was a magnet spare key case with a condom in it! This was a married, with kids, doctor's car!

Also heard a story of an out of balance wheel on a new car, when the dealer too the tire off the rim, there was a piece of petrofied cake that was heavy enough to make the wheel out of balanced, have heard of liquor bottles, beer bottles and all kinds of other stuff left in cars at the factory, but a ring? That's a new one! What Fun!

[Dales90]

It had to be in late 1950, my Dad used to tell the story. His new Super sedan had a rattle when going over rough surfaces. He checked the exhaust for clearance, and shock mounts, etc. He took it to the dealer twice without resolution

As a last resort, he removed the rear seat cushion, and in the passenger rear quarter void he found a snuff tin, he opened it and inside a note from somewhere along the assembly line, which read "How long did it take you to find this?"

[our51super]

This has Teresa and I baffled. After I replaced the headliner on our 51 Super I broke out the vacuum and vacuumed the enitre car (the front and back seats were both out of the car so I would have room to move about freely). I went over the entire carpet twice because I really made a mess and the carpet set was new so I felt bad. So after vacuuming the carpet twice I was wrapping up the extension cord of the shop vac and something shinny caught my eye inside the car .. on the carpet that I just vacuumed twice. It was a 1945 steel penny - face up! It's now hanging in a penny holder from the car's rear view mirror.

[brad54]

I've got another!

A guy I knew had a perfect, original '71 Road Runner that had never been restored or messed with, and was totally rust free, except for a spot on the top of the front fender, right above the wheel, that was rusting through from behind. Not the wheel lip, the top of the fender, next to the hood, but not near the edge--right in the center.

He bought an NOS front fender, and when he removed the bad front fender, he found a St. Louis Times (or whatever the major St. Loius paper is) folded and stuffed up there. The car was built in St. Loius, so a guy on the assembly line must have done it while the car was going together.

Also, while working at a Mopar magazine, we had a ton of guys send us pics and info showing that someone had taken a grease pencil and written "ROCK" in the passenger compartment over the rear wheel well on T/A Challengers before the carpet was put in. Dozens of guys had found this--some guy on the line kept writing it in cars.

-Brad