WILDHOG IN A REPLY TO ANOTHER POST GOT ME THINKING, WHATS THE NEATEST THING Y'ALL HAVE FOUND IN ANY OF THE CARS YOU'VE HAD.
I FOUND IN THE TRUNK OF A 1956 PLYMOUTH I BOUGH FROM A FARMER A MODEL 1911 COLT 45 ACP. NOT EVEN A A-1MODEL.
TO BAD IT WAS SO RUSTY AND CORRODED IF YA YOU COULDN'T EPULL THE SLIDE BACK WITH A HAMMER AND A GALLON OF RUST BUSTER, LOL.
DO YOU STILL HAVE IT?
Sounds like a molasses project to me, huh Glen? That stuff is the bomb..
Most interesting thing I've ever found in a car was in a `64 Comet sedan I paid $50 dollars for. I was looking under the seats, cleaning garbage out, and found a ziplock baggie with 3 $20 bills, lol. Got paid $10 to take the Comet away. I drove the car for over a year, then sold it for $500. Prob the only car I've ever had and sold, that I actually made anything off of.
I was rummaging through the trunk full of "STOUGH" that came with my 57 Ford when I found an Autometer 3 gauge panel complete with warning lights! Not nearly as intersting as a .45 I asked the old timer I bought the car from if it was his and he wanted it back and he said no it wasn't his and no he didn't want it. I asked him about the weld marks in the trunk, and he said "oh that, the car spent a few years in NC and when I bought it it had a big tank in the back, he further said he thought the car had been used to run "shine" many, many years ago.
Don't know if I believe it or not.
BuBBa
nope glenn.don't have the car or the 45acp my dad took it to work with him and mixed it in with the scape metal. i think he was affraid it was a murder weapon, lol.
To bad about the 45, they are getting about as hard to find as a 57 Ford.
Speaking of hard to find 57 fords...I just got back from the Pate Swap meet in fort worth tonight (5 hr. drive each way) there was one 57 ford there, a ranchero: driver, $5500. old paint job, not a restoration. In comparison, I didn't count but easily 12-15 '57 chev project cars. Couldn't find any cobra exaust manifolds or mustang motor mounts I was looking for. Did buy a neet tee shirt with 57 ford 2 dr custom pencil drawing on it...Rich
I just remembered, back in the late 60's I bought a wrecked 62 ford. It was full of junk, but I found a pill bottle under the dash full of some kind of dired up grass, always wondered way someone would put dry grass in a pill bottle. My buddy said that he wanted it.
When I was racing 57's, I flipped open a trunk of a 57 in a storage yard, and out came dozens of bees. Stung me up pretty bad, be careful out there! Mark
picked up a 59 meteor for parts and found a all most new trypod screw jack in the trunk
Never found anything out of the ordinary, just bees, snakes and dead mice. I did however find about $5.00 in silver coins when I took the console out of my 62 Bird, does that count.
About the neatest thing I found in my 57 fairlane when I got it was and old punch card stuck up in the rear seat. I didn't know what it was and apparently I threw it away. I've looked for it since and can't find it. Oh well, live and learn. Jim
My 57 Country Sedan came to New Zealand from Arizona. When we stripped it I found an old 24ct gold ring that had been cut through the band. The stone was missing although my wife spent a lot of time sifting through the dust etc. Always wondered what the story was. The ring has since been melted down and incorporated into another ring.
When I got my Ranchero for free, I went through it and found an old billfold in the glove box, had a $5 bill in it.
John
Neat things found in cars...
I got my '57 from my wife's family after my father-in-law passed away. John was a used car dealer all his life, and carried it on a little bit after he retired from Amarillo to Lake Texoma in Oklahoma. The week before he passed away he had run the car off into a ditch, and had to have it towed home. No damage, but they couldn't get it running again. After I trailered the car home to Colorado I was going thru it and found John's old coffee cup on the front floor, probably knocked down there when he hit the ditch. It was a recognizable bright orange ugly thing, problably from the 70's. I brought it into the house and showed it to my wife. She knew it was her dad's. Later, I was cleaning it and wrapping it up, and Connie asked me what I was going to do with it. I told her some day, after I got the '57 finished I was going to take her Dad's coffee cup for another ride. Well, it's 9 years later, I'm now in Texas, I still have the coffee cup...it's on a shelf in my shop...and some day it is going for another ride in the '57.
NOT so neat stuff LEFT in a car...
An embarrasing situation. When I was living in Socal, I had a really neat little Fiat Spyder convertible I had sold to a young couple. A few days after I sold them the car I realized I had left an opened box of Trojans under the front seat. Oh,S##T, I thought. They were a really nice couple, and I had visions of him getting in trouble with his wife if she found them and he didn't even know they were there. I thought about it, and did the right thing. I called them and asked for her, explaining I had left something personal under the front seat and didn't want her to think it was his. She laughed, and thanked me.
Quote from: RICH MUISE on 2010-05-03 09:06
NOT so neat stuff LEFT in a car...
An embarrasing situation. When I was living in Socal, I had a really neat little Fiat Spyder convertible I had sold to a young couple. A few days after I sold them the car I realized I had left an opened box of Trojans under the front seat. Oh,S##T, I thought. They were a really nice couple, and I had visions of him getting in trouble with his wife if she found them and he didn't even know they were there. I thought about it, and did the right thing. I called them and asked for her, explaining I had left something personal under the front seat and didn't want her to think it was his. She laughed, and thanked me.
LOL.. that is funny stuff!!
Kevin
I think I have a pretty funny one. A couple of years ago My wife and I were finally able to purchase a used motor home, a 24 footer. My hope was to use it to trailer my 57 from the West coast to some of those neat events in the Midwest or East. Her hope was to use it for family vacations. (So far she's had it her way.) LOL
The funny part of this story is that when we were cleaning the motor home thoroughly for the first time I found a couple of Polaroid photos, obviously taken in the motor home. Apparently one of the previous owners used the motor home as a rolling porn studio or bordello. The photos were of some unclad beauties. The funniest part of this was that my wife's sister referred us to one of her friends to buy the motor home. I have really had a lot of fun teasing the sister-in-law about her choice of friends. (Note the friend was in the business of buying used motor homes for resale back when motor homes were in high demand)
You're lucky, my wife would have put that thing on the market immediately with a best offer price.
If memory serves me right believe the wife and I found each other in the back seat of a 66 Fairlane GT, neatest thing I ever found after 32 years guess she's a keeper. :002:
zapato, just noticed your a nam class of 72 , welcome home bro . class of 70 here.
Thanks wolf and right back at you, had the honor and duty ( but unpleasant) to bury one of our brothers last week. He was Army Ranger double Purple Heart, Silver Star and many other decorations triple tour brother.
Loved him dearly , Will miss him till my own passing. :unitedstates: