hidden treasures in the car???

[rude]

Many of us have stripped a vehicles interior and exposed bits of it that vacuums and hands can't get to, usually throughout the vehicles life.
People sometime stash things in there too and forget about the item. I stashed half my weekly materials budget in a van once and lost it forever, and I had that curse word apart trying to find it. I also bought a metro automatic down the pub for 20 quid and found 11quid on the floor when I tore it apart the next day.
So after getting bits of wine gums, tobacco, maccyd fries and hair caught under your nails, what else have you found that's of any interest?

[Porsche]

I found a load of magots in the boot of my 1st car....a few weks later I found a load of flys.

[rude]

I also found the wallet of the scumbag that nicked my escort tucked under the seat runner about 2 months after it was recovered.... Definitely treasure that was

[Dez]

theres already a quite sizable thread going on this HERE

[rude]

I looked... Honest. I could change it to LOST in a car, but how many times do you think the V word will appear?

[fotorabia]

I found two bottles of unopened Aussie champagne in the back of the Merc when I bought it...1985..engraved bottles...Tiki in image not included..

[elpedro]

When i got my cooper i striped all the carpets all the seats too look for rust (didnt find any luckly ) but when putting everythink back i pilled the speaker wire out the radio so toom the radio out and found 100quid rolled up in 20notes was rather happy

[dbizzle]

Oct 25, 2012 23:11:31 GMT Porsche said:

I found a load of magots in the boot of my 1st car....a few weks later I found a load of flys.

There's a lesson to be learned there.

[composimmonite]

Under the steering wheel centre of my Chrysler Sunbeam I bought for £50 was a £20 note :-) When I removed the dash of a Land Rover to repair the bulkhead I found a load of LIVE ammunition.

Paul H

[stealthstylz]

My dad once had his car nicked but it got recovered a few days later. I was driving it round about 3 weeks later and got pulled possibly becuase it was still showing as stolen. They were gonna do a search of the car but once i'd proven who I was they let me on my way. I was cleaning it out the next day and found a machete in the door pocket which had stood up against the lip in the plastic so you couldn't see it. Could have been interesting explaining that one.

[MattE]

I used to work as a car valeter, best things i found were a white gold ring set with 12 sapphires in one car (used auction car so kept that) then a few years later a bag with hundreds of little white tablets in (very big scary blokes car left them), used to find enough cash in the hoover to pay for tea and milk all week though. Ah good days:-)

[Maxxxer]

Quite a few useful bits in mine - Haynes manual, new fan belt, bottle of coolant, screenwash, bulbs, ratchet stubby screwdriver, parking tickets, reciepts, various washers/bolts/screws, a spare chrome headlamp surround and a towel (plus a few other bits I may have missed) all in the same car ;D

Thought the towel was unneccesary until nearing the end of the trip out to fetch it the weather turned to rain; turned a corner and my passenger (Mr Gimp) found it to be useful when he suffered a rather wet knee from a little leakage of the roof...suffice to say he kept it close by for the rest of the journey just in case...

[jonw]

All I ever found in the mini was rust..... how could such a small car contain so much???

[vinnymk2]

had a mate who bought a scrap fiesta for £80, he was cleaning it out and found a solid gold ring hidden under the seat. He weighed it in and got around £350!

[Bolf]

Mate imported an s15 silvia , found a photograph of said car inside the boot of HIS car hanging of a mountain cliff having smashed through a barrier in Japan. LOL

[robinmasters]

Oct 26, 2012 8:22:46 GMT dbizzle said:

Oct 25, 2012 23:11:31 GMT Porsche said:

I found a load of magots in the boot of my 1st car....a few weks later I found a load of flys.

There's a lesson to be learned there.

If you find maggots, don't look again.

[hkr91]

Apart from change, hair, dirt, stones and usually a load of muck, the only thing I've found was a Snap-On Prybar in the back pockets of one of the Minis I bought.

On the road how ever, I've found snap on spanners, sockets, pliers and last but not least, a snap on booster box a few years back.

[guz]

three mumified mice in this....

[mikeymk]

Found a few bank notes, not all of them valid. Underwear, not all female. A diamond - no ring, just a diamond. Didn't get much for it but it paid for the car.. And a set of wooden french boules in a silver plated basket, which stayed in the car after a lick of coloured wood dyes and was used on days out.

[luckyseven]

I imported my second FD RX-7 from Japan as a shell with a knackered engine so I could swap the good bits into it from my crashed previous car. I found a single one-Yen piece in the ashtray. Like, one Yen! Not sure what the exchange rate was back in 2006 but it's currently at around 1 Yen = 0.007812 GB£ I know it's a common practice amongst the Japanese to have a coin in their cars for luck, but innit just my luck to get the tightest car owner in the entire of Japan!

The most exotic thing other than that I've inherited with a car was a very expensive top-kwol umbrella with leather handle and gold ferrule everything. It still resides in the boot of one of my RX-7s for those all-too rare rainy days