stuff youve found in your car.

had to take the carpets out of my Cav last year to do some welding, and found this:


dated:



Which is 10 days before the car came off the assembly line according to records. Strangely, according to the Opel Manta Owners Club info, all Cav Coupes were made in Antwerp. Whoever made this one obviously enjoyed an english newpaper on his tea breaks though!

That's amazing! Think he left it there on purpose, knowing it was destined for the UK?

FYI: Antwerp is in Belgium

Thanks for that. FYI: I know, I did GCSE Geography too. I was always lead to believe that most of the people that worked there were Dutch though. Don't know why, it could be a myth. I suppose it could just have easily been a Belgian that put it there, or a Lutonian or......

Or when its £3.10 a litre you'll know its £14 a gallon!

More likely.

found a dummy in the back of my golf and some leggings tied round the toweye and a pair of tights wrapped round the driveshaft

Laughed. So. Hard.

It can't be very often that you actually find a use for some inexplicable item found in your car (apart from money and porn mags) but......

Back on 28/12/11 I posted a picture of a strange component I found on the subframe of my Daimler.

Last night I was stripping down the power steering pump and there was a piece missing from inside the unit....yes, it was the bit I found on the subframe ;D

As I retired to bed about 3 in the morning the horror struck me that I'd thrown it away I knew there was no point getting up to look for it as I would've ended up sifting through every crate/box/bag I have till I found it.

Anyway. I got up today to find it in a little bag on my kitchen worktop

My theory as to how it got there is as follows:

• the hoses from the pump appear to have been replaced at some point as they have a 1984 date stamp (car is 1974)
  
• the high pressure hose union connects to a part threaded into the body of the pump. When I tried to disconnect the hose last night the other threaded part came out with it
  
• there is a spring behind the the fluid valve unit (bit I found) which fired out the part last time things were disconnected
  
• mechanic didn't notice it coming out or couldn't find it so just put it back together and hoped for the best
  

low pressure hose at top. high pressure one below



hose union should come out of the larger fitting when disconnected, not bring it along for the ride



hoses are dated 1984. replaced after control valve popped out or before?



thank god I found it

i bought a mk3 xr3i in about 1992. found two vibratey lady pleasers, a pair of crotchless knickers, a pair of the highest stilettos ive EVER seen (my current lady likes her shoes) and a vhs of lesbian porn in a carrier bag in the boot. also two bottles of amyl nitrate poppers in the glovebox....took them back to the bloke i bought the car off.....always wondered if they were his

oh and yes i wet vacced that interior to within an inch of its life VERY shortly afterwards!!!!!!!