Interesting things found in cars…

[Sammo]

Whenever I buy a car I’m always interested to see what’s been left behind by previous owners. Usually it’s a couple of pounds of change that’s dropped under the seats or some old petrol receipts that make you cry at how cheap fuel used to be! What I’ve found here is something a little different. An old Corsa came into work for an MOT and failed miserably. The owner asked us to scrap the car for him so I went to check if he’d left anything in it that he might want. A quick phone call to confirm what I’d found and he very kindly said I could keep it if it was something that interested me

This is what I found






















So what have you found in cars over the years?

[tubthumper]

Calling pistonpopper, who I seem to remember having quite a find in a cheap Jag he bought once?

[squonk]

In about 1986 I bought a two year old Escort XR3i (£5000 if I remember correctly). When I lifted the boot carpet I found a copy of Men Only magazine under it!! Sadly I no longer have the car (or the magazine!!)

Prior to that as a teenager I bought a Granada 3 litre. Sometime after I got it as I was driving along a bag of white powder dropped out from behind the dash

[grumpybadger]

You can tell just how much faith he had un that car that he felt the need to carry a bus timetable with him.

[astranaut]

Found a 20 quid note under a seat in a breaker Astra GSi I'd bought for 100 quid, and randomly behind the centre cap on the steering wheel on a mk1 Clio I had was a load of unused condoms, and empty wrappers, nothing used though thankfully:D

[pistonpopper]

Mar 26, 2022 11:21:58 GMT tubthumper said:

Calling pistonpopper, who I seem to remember having quite a find in a cheap Jag he bought once?

Indeed, I did once find £160 in a little compartment in the dash of my s-type jag just a couple of hours before selling it. I was pretty pleased with that.

Last year I bought a car from a street preacher and found this little beauty left inside...



Quite why a street preacher was cruising around with this thing is anyone's guess.

[igor]

My '71 Wolseley 1300 (purchased in '06 and daily driven for eight years) still has one of the previous owner's late wife's scarves in the glovebox. The faint smell of her perfume lingered on that scarf for many years and possibly still does.
One of my Falcon wagons had a long and varied history prior to my ownership including a period in which it served as a taxi in Auckland. Later on it did duty as a young fellow's booze cruiser in West Otago. Shortly after I bought it I removed the seats to give it a good clean and found large quantities of dog hair, some chewed bones, and a varied selection of alcoholic beverage bottle caps. This led me to question whether the man I bought it from and whose sister had dailied it for some time had ever cleaned it.
Back in the late '80s I purchased a '47 Austin 3 tonner tow truck as a project and scored with it a couple of very good quality adjustable spanners that probably cost almost half of what I had paid for the truck.

[thechadzone]

More than 20 years ago, I was at a decrepit auto salvage yard here in the US and found a nefarious looking pipe in the glove box of a totaled Karman Ghia. I was a much different person back then, and I dared myself to hit that pipe to determine its contents. It was unmistakably good ol'fashioned American crack cocaine. More than enough to share, but I was alone, so...

As I sit here at my desk in my casual work attire, I marvel at the distance I've come in my time.

[grizz]

Mar 26, 2022 20:18:28 GMT pistonpopper said:

Mar 26, 2022 11:21:58 GMT tubthumper said:

Calling pistonpopper, who I seem to remember having quite a find in a cheap Jag he bought once?

Indeed, I did once find £160 in a little compartment in the dash of my s-type jag just a couple of hours before selling it. I was pretty pleased with that.

Last year I bought a car from a street preacher and found this little beauty left inside...



Quite why a street preacher was cruising around with this thing is anyone's guess.

As a knife lover, that is awesome.

Conversely, in 19882 my brother used my Datsun 140Y, managed to hit a dog, necessitating bodyshop repairs, and that led to the loss of a huge knife I had managed to take off a Cuban in Angola.

I have still not forgiven him.

[Kelvinator]

Considering how many cars I have owned, I have found very little of interest in them. One of the funniest was a small Minibar in the boot of a Galant; RTDs and vodka shots hidden in the spare wheel well.



One of my Skylines had some JDM goodies under the back seat

[Dez]

Ive had, so, SO many tools over the years. Some of which I still have and are quite useful. A snap on trim clip lifter inside a door on something years ago was really a great tool. Some of the places I’ve found them have been daft as well. A 3ft long screwdriver sat in the channel on top of a radiator under the slam panel- I bet someone spent ages looking for that! Likewise the 2ft long pair of needle nose pliers between a firewall and it’s insulation.
The LED work light stuck on a chassis rail behind a wheel made laugh, likewise the mole grips still attached to the ARB droplink.
The snap on ratchet and socket inside a transit chassis rail with no obvious ingress hole big enough for it always puzzled me though. I got £75 quid for it though which was a good discount on the purchase price of the van!

have a pot full of foreign coinage that’s come in cars over the years, mostly American. I also had a load of live .22 rounds out of my old falcon but not sure what happened to them.

This appeared out or my truck somewhere when the cab was turned over to paint the bottom. Amazing it didn’t fall out the previous two times when it was flipped for repairs and sandblasting. The brand was defunct by 1964 so it’s pretty in-period.

[igor]

A neighbour once had issues with fuel starvation in his J1 Bedford farm truck. Eventually the cause was found to be extraneous items in the petrol tank including a rag and a large screwdriver. Much speculation ensued as to the circumstances in which they found their way in there.

[rblote]

I bought this Honda Odyssey from a farmer near St George. He has a 100.000 acre property near Nindigully.
Nindigully is known for it's great pub. nindigullypub.com/
His kids are at a boarding school on the Gold Coast. he used this car when he would fly in from St George to see his kids. Kids are now ready to drive them self and didn't want to drive mum and dad's family car.
he put it up for sale for I think $2000. I called him and asked about the car. He told me that a tow truck driver had offered him $1200. I offered $1300 he accepted on the condition that I would pick it up the following day.
I picked it up drove it home and went through the car.
I found $150 in small change, X ray photo's some small tools, roll's of tape, original Honda headphones for the inboard DVD system, and invoices for all services done over the last 10 years.
It was a great car that made me about $2000 on top of what I paid for it about 12 months later.

[truckdoctor]

An imported truck from Arizona contained amongst many dead strange looking spiders one dead and one live scorpion

[Ritchie]

I pulled a rattlesnake skin out of the front chassis leg of my Brat. I was terrified in case I discovered the owner!

[darrenh]

a lolly stick, £2.20, a rancid foam ear plug, a national pest technicians association pin badge, some shells, two lengths of DIN speaker cable, a piece of ply wood painted stripy black, and bullies special prize....sandwhich bag tie

[antni]

My 306 gti6 had a bag full of what can only be described as granny porn in the boot 😂.
The bloke messaged me while I was driving home saying he forgot to take a bag out of the boot and that I could just throw it away.

[akku]

Not so long ago I bought this '76 Continental as a parts car for my own '76 which was undergoing some drastic surgery.



I had it shipped from California to Moonshine Motors who were doing the work, and they hauled it into their workshop to start stripping down.

Then I had a call "We have a problem"

The "problem" was a black widow spider nest. The little whatsits escaped the nest and got into the workshop. I ended up paying for the whole place fumigated and signed off by environmental health. Luckily one of the guys there was an ex pest control guy and still had the "certification" or whatever is needed to handle this so all I paid for was the chemicals and so on. Closed them down for 3 or 4 days though.

I've had weird nests in cars before, and dead insects of weird and scary size



This fella was a dead on arrival passenger on the '70 Galaxie Fastback I got from Washington. There were a lot of nests in there.



More than seem likely or reasonable if the car had been "parked maybe 2 years or so". Maybe 10 or 11 years or so.

[HoTWire]

Apr 18, 2022 7:31:06 GMT akku said:

Then I had a call "We have a problem"

This is my literal nightmare, importing a car and finding a dangerous spider in it. Knowing my luck it would be as I reach under the dash for something.

Mad they had to fumigate the workshop!!

[Roach]

I valet cars for a living.

Found a lot of things I shouldn’t have…

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