stuff youve found in your car.

A couple of years ago wasn't there a link on here to a VW Splitty that was being restored in the States, and he found loads of drugs that had been hidden in the box sections?

On the clio i just sold, i lost a quid down back of passengers seat so delved in to reclaim it and pulled out a red ipod nano 16gb 5g.

So i had it 2 weeks made £60 on it and sorted the mrs birthday present out, RESULT!

Best thing I found in a car when I was valeting was some 'private' photos of a customer. Very pleasent photos. I put them back with a little note saying 'nice'.

I think the foot in the footwell is a bit of an urban myth, remember getting told about it back in the early 80's it was in a transit back then.

Scariest thing we found was a huntsman spider (google it for size) under the dash of a Sigma Wagon we had in Aus, found it about 1am when it dropped down on my leg whilst driving in the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't beleive how quickly you can make a fully loaded wagon stop under those circumstances......

found a gimp mask in the back of a customers car ;D some teeth stuck in the dasboard of a ford transit when i was doing my aprentichip . various nude photo of customers over the years .best one was when we repaired car of the local mucky book shop owner gave us loads of magzines for nothing

In my Hillman I managed to get the boot open (came with no key), that liberated I think 9 screw-type jacks like what come with cars and none of them fit the car or worked nor had any handles.
Three old Hessian sacks that fell apart when I lifted them, an old Sainsbury's bag, back from when the logo was brown and orange J. SAINSBURY PLC. with a bunch of assorted tools in, again, none of which fit the vehicle- they were whitworth.

The rear seat liberated a mouse nest with a long-term tenant inside, skeletonised, and I found about 70p in old money under the dash and carpet, all green with damp.

My Victor came with a H4 headlamp in the glovebox. The thing had sealed beams. That and a very dried up bottle of yellow headlight paint, lots of blade type fuses.

I seem to get the spares for everyone else's cars with mine

--Phil

I bought an old SEAT (Cant remember the name - it was 900cc I think) for £60 and found £20 quids worth of change in the ashtray...! I was well pleased!

Also I had a car stolen then recovered and I was left with a load of really strange love notes that the thieves were sending to each other!?

When I bought D888 XJM, my first Piazza, there was rather a lot of loose skunk in the centre console. Later on when I had a section of the dashboard off there was a triple wrapped bag of green in a hollowed out compartment just below the A pillar.

Other than that, nowt much. There was a green £1 coin from 1983 virtually embedded in the floor of my Amazon, several sheets of newspaper from South Africa (Christ knows, it's never left Europe AFAIK) and lots of soggy insulation.

On a related note, I won a Volvo reserve tank in the USA, had it shipped to Blighty..........
......whereby I discovered it half full of fuel and the box rattling with coffee beans and seeds of an unknown description. I planted them in the field near the unit for good luck. The fuel went into the 480 and got me from Uni to home and back several times.

There's definitely an ethnography series in the offing.

I havn't had anything special, just the usual coins, odd sockets, screwdrivers ect, i did have a run for a while where every car i seemed to buy had sunglasses in them, the wife got a nice pair of dkny sunglasses.
I bought a mk2 escort and found a 9ct gold bracelet on the little card shelf below the steering wheel.
I also found nearly £5 in change in a maestro in a scrap yard in the early 90's, it was a hle i think and the owner must have thrown all his change on the dash, i was under the dash and banged my head and heard a rattle, i sat up and banged the dash with my hand to hear it again, the car had a trim on the front of the dash, so with a good yank it came off, it was hollow and full of coins.