Interesting things found in cars…

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!!