NEAT STUFF

[wolfpupsdad]

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.

[glen b henderson]

DO YOU STILL HAVE IT?

[JPotter57]

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.

[Bubba]

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

[wolfpupsdad]

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.

[glen b henderson]

To bad about the 45, they are getting about as hard to find as a 57 Ford.

[RICH MUISE]

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

[glen b henderson]

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.

[Frankenstein57]

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

[canadian_ranchero]

picked up a 59 meteor for parts and found a all most new trypod screw jack in the trunk

[Ford Blue blood]

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.

[JimNolan]

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

[alstoy]

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.

[Hoosier Hurricane]

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

[RICH MUISE]

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.