Dez
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And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Jun 28, 2011 23:00:28 GMT
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i think we may have done this before, but it was a while ago, so lets have another go at it. whenever i get a new car, i always like to give it a good clean out to see what ive got. this thread is for the stuff youve found secreted in the crevices of your 'new' motor from a past life. i don't mean rust holes and stuff you already new was there like spare parts or whatever, i mean little everyday oddments that give a glimpse into its past life. i don't think our answers will be as interesting as the one on the HAMB, with bullet holes and bits of skull in the boot floor, but we can give it a go! me and a mate stripped out his new vehicle the other day, and amongst other things we got the obligatory piece of lego, and an esso world cup collectable coin from the year it was made, which i thought was quite cool. today, i had to remove the lower dash from my victor, and tucked up under the airbox was this-  from its third year on the road. it looked as though it had been deliberately put there too, as it was tucked up a wiring clip. i also found these-  so its fair to say its been to wipsnade sometime before '71 and lived in/near croydon (the tax disc is stamped in peckham) during the same period (as there is pre and post decimalisation parking tickets). i also have a bit of lego, a smarties lid thats almost as compulsory as the lego in my cars it seems, various coinage, bits of kids toys, buttons, odd earrings,all the usual stuff youd expect in a family car. as i get through a few cars, a have a little pot of whatever i find in them the workshop. ive got coins from about 15 different countries, and live .22 shells from under the seat in my old falcon wagon! and then at the end of the day, in the interior that is from a different car and has been lugged halfway across the country by me and KFW, and picked up/put down no end of times, i picked the front seat up today and this fell out-  so, what you found? |
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Jun 28, 2011 23:10:45 GMT
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i used to clean out cars that came in to garage i worked at used to find alsorts mostly pens but great bit was coins and even notes on good week easy find £50 one week found £45 under one a seat lol
wired one was birth certificate not the sort thing you normaly loose
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Jun 28, 2011 23:13:09 GMT
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Apart from the odd few coins, hair clips, broken toys and pens. Nothing interesting. I must by cars off people that thoroughly clean them before sale.
My brothers best friend buy's salvage cars and breaks/fixes them and sells them on. He brought a Cat B car ages ago that was involved in a very nasty front end crash. While stripping the dashboard out he found what was left of the previous owners right foot, still in it's trainer, wedged in the pedal box. He wasn't sure what to do with it, so it ended up in the bin.
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Dez
Club Retro Rides Member
And I won't sit down. And I won't shut up. And most of all I will not grow up.
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Club RR Member Number: 34
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Jun 28, 2011 23:21:36 GMT
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Apart from the odd few coins, hair clips, broken toys and pens. Nothing interesting. I must by cars off people that thoroughly clean them before sale. My brothers best friend buy's salvage cars and breaks/fixes them and sells them on. He brought a Cat B car ages ago that was involved in a very nasty front end crash. While stripping the dashboard out he found what was left of the previous owners right foot, still in it's trainer, wedged in the pedal box. He wasn't sure what to do with it, so it ended up in the bin. i always seem to do the exact opposite. mine always seem to have been used as storage, or have things living in them. or at least smell like it. this was under the front seat in the victor-  and i had to stick my hands in that lot to unbolt em. if just under the seat was like that, you can imagine what the actual nooks and crannies were like! ive heard tales of feet and stuff before. i once remember going to a scrappy in lincolnshire that had just has a severely written off z3 dropped in the yard entrance. at first glance i thought it had a red interior, until i walked past it and saw only half of it was red  there were quite sizable strips/slices of skin on the dash and the remains of the glass too. |
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Jun 28, 2011 23:28:59 GMT
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minidan & Dez: I think I speak for most people when I say ew. If I'd found the foot, Id'v'e probably tried to return it to its owner, not sure it would've done any good but, yanno, seems right. My brother found a spare door pull trim inside my dashboard the other day, we have no idea how it got there or when, but it must've been a long time ago since I've never had a spare. When we got it, my Polo had a crapload of hay in it. Shortly after having a windscreen explode upon removal I used to find all the tiny bits of broken glass with my bottom on the driver's seat, that was never fun.
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will
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Jun 28, 2011 23:32:45 GMT
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Fortunately I've never found any body parts in my cars  When my old van broke down leaving me and a mate stranded with no cash we had a good search in the nooks and crannies and found amongst tons of other tat enough cash for a 6 pack, a herb grinder and a bag of maryjane. Passed the time while waiting for the tow truck ;D |
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Copey
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Jun 28, 2011 23:45:35 GMT
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in the capri, the previous owners bank details (seriously) and loads of other personal things, place of employment, amount he earns, account numbers, sort codes, address
i was going to ring him to tell him about them, but the engine decided to all but die on the way home!! i had just turned 18 at the time, didnt know much about mechanics, phoned up and explained to him what had gone on, he just said "sold as seen" and then hung up on me, the *insert lots of swearing here* if i wasnt an honest person i would have ripped the git off!! sometimes i still wish i had kept hold of his details, some extra money would be nice right about now!
also a britney spears CD...lol
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec
1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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camper damper
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Another car bites the dust
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Jun 28, 2011 23:55:39 GMT
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I used to work in a scrap yard and came across all sorts but my best are. urn with ash still in it under the back seat shotgun under the drivers seat some toys for adults  from my ex girlfriends brothers car I gave them back to him 50 sets of car keys all over the car they where belonged to the car I was scraping  few mice stuffed in the boot dead dog in the engine bay nude photos in a pocket;D A hammer in behind the door card A bag of drugs in a VW t3 I had to scrap a school bus that had a bad crash and found some real nightmare stuff on that bus didn't sleep for months had to see a psychologists (may be wrong spelling) to help me sleep still have nightmare 4 years on it was that which stop me from working in the scrap yard When I got the van I found €400 stuck down the passage seat. The starlet I had I found a doll missing its head stuck under the back seat. |
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nomadx
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I once found a big old kitchen knife in a escort cab i bought to break.
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Not mine, but my old man had an Astra wagon off a farmer in a swap which turned out to have cement in the spare wheel well. He's chipping away at it only to discover shotgun cartridges are masquerading as aggregate. He perseveres though and manages to get the lot out. Lucky really as it needed a fair bit of welding later on. I only seem to find foreign coins in mine. edit: found a shrivelled mouse and a lot of sand in the air box of the van in my avatar <----------------  |
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Last Edit: Jun 29, 2011 0:13:24 GMT by Clamity
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dbdb
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Mine had an old petrol price conversion card. If I ever see petrol at 31p a litre I will know that it is £1.40 a gallon.  |
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stwat
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I used to be a valeter for a used car dealers and quite a few of the cars he bought had been repossessed from non paying finance beings.
I used to find all sorts of stuff. Full tape collections (yes it was that long ago that people had tape players in their cars LOL) Many an expensive pen. Driving licenses and bank statements etc etc. So many personal details on many people that if one was of criminal learnings one could have have made a hell of a lot of cash using these peoples details.
People, don't leave this kind of wibblepoo in your cars because there are many dogey people who will fully exploit all the info they find!!
The funniest thing I found was a stash of Hardcore German BDSM porn mags ! ;D I'd found many porn mags before but this stash found under the boot carpet was something else !! At least 30 mags full of some of the most sadistic Sadomasochistic porn I have ever seen and don't want to ever see again !!
People are strange !!
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Last Edit: Jun 29, 2011 0:16:06 GMT by stwat
1992 190E 1.8 manual
1989 300SE Low mileage LuxoBarge
1988 190e 2.6. 1988 190 2.3-16 Cosworth
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my car came with an old pack of batteries, several mp3 players, several sets of head phones, an old scarf, some gloves, and a load of snotty kitchen roll  |
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ChasR
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stuff youve found in your car.ChasR
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The 'B all those years ago came with a few parking tickets on the late 80s from Totnes, a tax disc from there as well as a Guiness beer towel!
I once bought a Ka with the bloke's entire CD collection residing in the glovebox in addition to the the usual parking tickets.
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Nude pics of the previous owner (one of my Metros IIRC). She was very tasty, and the previous owner wasn't bad either  An old white fiver in my Samba which was weird as the car was 1982. a 9mmx19 Fiocchi parabellum round, live (given to police) in a Goof A current credit card in the same car The best one ever was a mate who bought an ex-local authority house and contents, sight unseen, at public auction. In the garage was a Triumph 2000/2500 (can't remember which) containing the car's keys, a case of vodka (unopened) and a gimp mask. The housewarming party was a good one... |
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I've found the WCW Sting wrestling figure, a magic wand, an old vw beetle keyring, and a spanner. The spanner was in a bodged panel, as in in it. A previous owner needed to do some bodyfilling and must have been running low and used a spanner in the gap before adding filler.
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On the Mini I found a candy and a sandwich on top of the heater. Both looked as old as the car itself...  Also found a lighter, some pencils and three(!) spanners between the firewall and subframe ;D In the Merc I found some old Deutsche Mark, various TÜV reports, a smal Hirschmann booklet with the antenna key. And the probably coolest find is a booklet from Shell, fullwith advice of how to deal with lead-free fuels vs. catalytic converters ;D I enjoed that, as it almost reads like a contemporary alco-fuel booklet ;D Also found a brand new airfilter and all the hand- and service books. Cool! I've never had a car with a handbook, let alone a service book ;D  |
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30psi
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In my Thunderbird I found some coins from New Zealand. The previous owner told me it came from NZ in 1994 but I took that with a pinch of salt, as it would be unusual for the car to go from the US then to NZ then to the UK. Coins were dated 70's and obviously there was truth in what he was saying
In my 910, I have the previous owners glasses, which are hilariously styled. Also got library tickets in their from the 80's and 90's. All these things are still kept where I found them.
In my Dad's '68 Corvette 427, we found a love letter that a young owner received off a girl who fancied him at College. What a car to own at college! I bet he wore a base ball jacket....
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Last Edit: Jun 29, 2011 8:28:48 GMT by 30psi
1962 Ford Thunderbird 6.4L
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS CA18DET
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS SR20DE
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Solid silver bracelet under the rear seat of an old Austin -bought for parts.
Worth many times the cost of the car.
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Never found anything of great interest, the usual coins, kids toys, old sweets, and paperwork.
The funniest one was when we were changing my cousins skyline engine for a fresh one, after ripping the old one out, and putting the new one in, connecting it all up etc, we turn the key and it fires first go, then dies after a couple of seconds, after that it refuses to start, we check every hose, every connection, and find nothing wrong, after a few days head scratching we start to take it apart again, only to find a mouse lodged in the throttle body !
It had made a nest in the front mount intercooler, when we started it up it was sucked into the tb and was cuasing the engine to die due to lack of air, was sad, but curse word hilarious at the same time !
il see if my cousin still has the photo
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When my old van broke down leaving me and a mate stranded with no cash we had a good search in the nooks and crannies and found amongst tons of other tat enough cash for a 6 pack, a herb grinder and a bag of maryjane. Passed the time while waiting for the tow truck ;D
from my ex girlfriends brothers car I gave them back to him
Also found a lighter, some pencils and three(!) spanners between the firewall and subframe ;D
