Paul Y
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Mar 24, 2017 18:29:54 GMT
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Found a cat under the bonnet of a Capri when I was an apprentice. Car had driven from Bristol or somewhere - cat didn't belong to the car owner so became the garage cat. Found another cat under the bonnet of another car. This one had been towed in and wouldnt start after making a loud screeching noise..... P.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:52:11 GMT
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We had a three legged cat for years after it went to sleep on the engine of my grandads old Volvo 340 and was caught in the fan belt when it was started.
Died recently at about 20 years old, having lived around 18 missing a leg.
During my time in the garage trade I've also had mice running off the top of the engine and never to be seen again in a farm Land Rover, whilst rotting pheasants in the spare wheel well wasn't uncommon either.
Thinking about it more, odd sex toys and weapons were also found, and I think the worst one was in the back of one of the courtesy cars. The woman who had it owned a fairly large breed (I forget which) that had left a pile of wibblepoo large enough you could have mistaken it for the deposit of a small horse on the floor behind the passenger seat. Wether she knew and couldn't face cleaning it, or was completely unawares we never found out, but there was much arguing over who was going to shovel it out.
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60six
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May 28, 2017 21:03:44 GMT
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I pulled out the headlining of the saab and there was something folded inbetween the roof and screen .... some kind of bodyshop checklist from the factory!
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Last Edit: May 28, 2017 21:07:25 GMT by 60six
Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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May 30, 2017 11:20:14 GMT
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Two blokes eating their packed lunches! i came back from a wander at a car show and found these herberts munching away in my car, claimed it was a car show and " well they let you sit in them at the NEC"
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May 30, 2017 11:45:33 GMT
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Two blokes eating their packed lunches! i came back from a wander at a car show and found these herberts munching away in my car, claimed it was a car show and " well they let you sit in them at the NEC" A guy I know runs a top-end wedding car hire business. All immaculate Rolls-Royce motor cars from the 1920's & 1930's, most of them Laundalettes. He'd taken one of them to a car show, I think it was his Phantom 1, this type of thing; He'd only recently imported it from the USA, it was originally ordered by a Swiss Countess and was in jaw-dropping condition. Interior fitments included glass division, cocktail cabinet, Chauffeur intercom, jewelled perfume atomisers in the arm rests, tapestry seating with matching scatter cushions, etc. He went for a wander around the show and came back to find a chav family sat in the back of the car having a picnic!
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Last Edit: May 30, 2017 12:12:23 GMT by MkX
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May 30, 2017 12:07:51 GMT
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many moons ago I found an eye wateringly large syringe needle under the boot carpet in a recently purchased range rover , took me a few minutes to realise that the previous owner was a vet...phew!! my old dear found a really nice rechargeable worklamp left under the seat of her smart after a service at the main dealer...she had been treated appallingly at the time by them...so that didn't go back! and that brings me to these , whatever they were , slime and wormy maggoty type life forms. these were growing under the carpet in my current pug 106 daily...MINGING! 20mb image hostingwhat have you left in cars though? donkeys years ago (it had to be it was new) I had base mk2 golf loaner from the local main dealer...about a week later I remembered I had put a packet of condoms in the door pocket..could have been an interesting one for the service manager to have explained !!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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May 30, 2017 14:38:48 GMT
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Two blokes eating their packed lunches! i came back from a wander at a car show and found these herberts munching away in my car, claimed it was a car show and " well they let you sit in them at the NEC" A guy I know runs a top-end wedding car hire business. All immaculate Rolls-Royce motor cars from the 1920's & 1930's, most of them Laundalettes. He'd taken one of them to a car show, I think it was his Phantom 1, this type of thing; He'd only recently imported it from the USA, it was originally ordered by a Swiss Countess and was in jaw-dropping condition. Interior fitments included glass division, cocktail cabinet, Chauffeur intercom, jewelled perfume atomisers in the arm rests, tapestry seating with matching scatter cushions, etc. He went for a wander around the show and came back to find a chav family sat in the back of the car having a picnic! i've got to ask, how did either of the car owners react?? I don't know if i would be to astonished to do anything, or go and fetch a tyre iron!
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May 30, 2017 15:17:29 GMT
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A guy I know runs a top-end wedding car hire business. All immaculate Rolls-Royce motor cars from the 1920's & 1930's, most of them Laundalettes. He'd taken one of them to a car show, I think it was his Phantom 1, this type of thing; He'd only recently imported it from the USA, it was originally ordered by a Swiss Countess and was in jaw-dropping condition. Interior fitments included glass division, cocktail cabinet, Chauffeur intercom, jewelled perfume atomisers in the arm rests, tapestry seating with matching scatter cushions, etc. He went for a wander around the show and came back to find a chav family sat in the back of the car having a picnic! i've got to ask, how did either of the car owners react?? I don't know if i would be to astonished to do anything, or go and fetch a tyre iron! Well that type of thing would probably have been my first instinct. I'm sure he turfed them out of the Rolls pretty smartish but he's a roly-poly old fellah so don't think he'd have been up for fisticuffs with said chavs.
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THE_Liam
Yorkshire and The Humber
If at first you don't succeed... HAMMERS.
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May 30, 2017 20:06:08 GMT
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One of my first cars was a Rover 420 GSI I bought cheap off a lad from my estate, just because it was a 2 litre and was the biggest engined car I could insure at 18, not a bad motor actually.
Had the original Rover tape deck, and I've always preferred tapes in the car, so went out for a first drive in it and tried to slot in a tape, but it wouldn't go in. Pulled over and opened the cassette deck door and peered in, there was a baggie of white powder in there.
Used to get pulled over almost daily driving locally, my theory is he was dealing and he'd been pulled, so he'd shoved someone's delivery of coke in there and forgot about it in the stress of being taken down the cop shop and having a couple of gloved fingers shoved up his poo chute.
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60six
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May 30, 2017 21:12:00 GMT
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Two blokes eating their packed lunches! i came back from a wander at a car show and found these herberts munching away in my car, claimed it was a car show and " well they let you sit in them at the NEC" I would pay to have that on video... Reminds me of when I had a diesel Xantia as a hire car and was pulled up on the side of the road waiting for my mate to get some cash, and two randoms jumped in and asked me to go to Walderslade Village! - Politely told them that not all diesel Xantias are taxis .....
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Some 9000's, a 900, an RX8 & a beetle
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One of my friends found this in a car that he had bought... Yep, that is what it is, and it's carved out of wood so quite what good it is to anyone in anyones guess!
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not even functional!!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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Well that’s erm.........well a strange find
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Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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My brother has just discovered that his 4 month old VW golf is being used by mice and or squirrels . Around his battery is crammed with beech nuts . No wonder his hunter/killer orange 4 mice a day cat hangs around on it all the time .
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dazcapri
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One of my friends found this in a car that he had bought... Yep, that is what it is, and it's carved out of wood so quite what good it is to anyone in anyones guess! I think you've just won
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Mk3 Capri LS
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I disagree with you it could come in useful I could put a hook on it and hang my coat on it....btw some of my ex girlfriends were wooden in that department......
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Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort
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it looks like one of "spocks" ears!
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One of my friends found this in a car that he had bought... Yep, that is what it is, and it's carved out of wood so quite what good it is to anyone in anyones guess! That's really early. Isn't it the crack of Dawn?
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Last Edit: Dec 10, 2017 13:11:06 GMT by Deleted
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with a bit of work it would make an excellent door bell push.. should be enough to keep jehovahs witness' away too...double bonus!!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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