Project 65
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It's not an a-body but my brother had a 63 Merc Montcalm back in the 70's.Took the pass. door panel off it only to find the outer skin was made from an old Coca-Cola sign.Give a whole new meaning to re-cycling.
Strangest thing found in your A body???
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Saw an ad in 94.72 Dart 2dr,$500.00 obo.Looked at it at night.(Yea,I know) Owned by a painter at Vandenburg AFB.Went to start the car.On the dash was a 110 house light switch,next to a doorbell switch.The key was broke in the.on position.They made the light switch power on,the doorbell the starter switch.I paid him four bills,motored into the night.Wake up next morning,walked outside.They painted the car army green!(LOL!)
ESP47
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Bought a 67 Valiant but didn't look in the trunk because the guy lost the key. When I got the trunk opened there were 2 extra grilles, tail lights, gauge cluster, a radiator, box of hardware, complete gasket sets, water pump, oil pump, starter, heater and radiator hoses, belts, interior parts, windshield trim, turning signals, bezels, headlights, air filter, oil filters, air cleaner, brake booster, ball joint socket, brake grease, pb blaster, brake fluid and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. Most of it was all brand new. All in all I had a ton of parts to fix the car up and made a few hundred bucks selling the rest. Almost paid for the car itself.
Bad part was that it came with about 10 black widows. I was under the car looking at the gas tank when I lifted my head up and felt my forehead hit a thick web. I looked up and shined the light and I was literally face to face with a giant black widow. A few weeks later we dropped the rear end and my buddy was resting his hand on top of the drum. After looking closer, his finger was about 1/4" away from a black widow just sitting on the backside lip of the drum lol.
Bad part was that it came with about 10 black widows. I was under the car looking at the gas tank when I lifted my head up and felt my forehead hit a thick web. I looked up and shined the light and I was literally face to face with a giant black widow. A few weeks later we dropped the rear end and my buddy was resting his hand on top of the drum. After looking closer, his finger was about 1/4" away from a black widow just sitting on the backside lip of the drum lol.
kaytbugsdad
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I was cleaning in between the seat of my Scamp and pulled out a receipt from 1987, and what looks to be a slug from a .45 caliber handgun....... Didn't have the shell casing or primer, just the slug!!!! Weird stuff!!!!
airwoofer
Drivetrain limit explorer
If there are any brownish balls about 3/8# diameter in the webs smash them too as those are the younguns. You don't want to be the guy who introduces black widow spiders to HI. I have a bunch in my building. BTW, brake cleaner spray or carb cleaner seems to kill them pretty well.
airwoofer
Drivetrain limit explorer
That fluffy stuff is the padding from the sides of the rear seat. After I got my parts fish back it took the darn mice a week to do that to my rear seat. Only a small piece of the build sheet remained.
wahzinaplymouth
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Not an A body, but cleaning out my 56 Desoto, I found a cat long since dead, an unopened can of Valvoline oil(remember when a can of oil was actually a can?) an early Hemi valve cover, and the original ignition key to the car under the front seat. Now if I can ever get back to working on that one.
As for spiders, the ugliest ones I've ever seen in person, always seem to be in one of my project Mopars.
I think I've found bullets in just about every car I've ever cleaned out.
I know none of this is that weird, but I'm loving this thread. Glad it got brought back.
As for spiders, the ugliest ones I've ever seen in person, always seem to be in one of my project Mopars.
I think I've found bullets in just about every car I've ever cleaned out.
I know none of this is that weird, but I'm loving this thread. Glad it got brought back.
Sgt Mopar
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While tearing down my dart, I found that the driver side doorhandle rods were a bunch of jigsaw blades welded together. Worked though, even considered leaving it. Gotta love West Virginia ingenuity.
In my '68 Dart, I was hooking up my licence plate light ( it's a old race car) and I found a extra set of keys wired up in the corner of the trunk by the tail light. They had been there for many years. I put them back for someone else to discover many years from now.
mikeys toy
asshole
Stop calling her that!!!!
K.O. SWINGER
Meeting in the alley since 1976
occasion:under the dash a big blunt looked like something from the 70s
74Dusted
Stock Piler of 340's
I never find anything interesting in my cars... yeah right.
In my '73 Dart Sport (the automatic one) I didn't have a key for the trunk, So I drilled out the tumblers on the lock and opened it to find... A mostly complete 1970 340 T/A Engine! and a set of Rallye Wheels. The T/A got shoved into my '74 Duster and the rallyes got put in storage.
In my '72 Demon I found half a pack of smokes and an antique Zippo.
On my '65 Cuda I found spare parts/trim and some 4-speed stuff in the trunk
My '74 Duster came loaded with spare parts... and I found 2 buildsheets inside my back seat (one for my car, another for a '74 Dart)
Behind the seat of my '48 Dodge I found a hand drawn map (roughly 4' x 6') of State College PA, dated 1951 :glasses7: and the original Moon "Dodge" Hubcaps too.
In my '73 Dart Sport (the automatic one) I didn't have a key for the trunk, So I drilled out the tumblers on the lock and opened it to find... A mostly complete 1970 340 T/A Engine! and a set of Rallye Wheels. The T/A got shoved into my '74 Duster and the rallyes got put in storage.
In my '72 Demon I found half a pack of smokes and an antique Zippo.
On my '65 Cuda I found spare parts/trim and some 4-speed stuff in the trunk
My '74 Duster came loaded with spare parts... and I found 2 buildsheets inside my back seat (one for my car, another for a '74 Dart)
Behind the seat of my '48 Dodge I found a hand drawn map (roughly 4' x 6') of State College PA, dated 1951 :glasses7: and the original Moon "Dodge" Hubcaps too.
socaldart
Inland Mopars Car Club
My son ieduster's girlfreind lady in the scamp was cleaning out her 73 scamp.
and found a sock up in the dash beside the glovebox insert. pulled it out to find
4 12ga.shotgun shells and 40 rounds of .22lr. strange
and found a sock up in the dash beside the glovebox insert. pulled it out to find
4 12ga.shotgun shells and 40 rounds of .22lr. strange
I paid $800.00 for my 73 duster, the trunk was completly full of trash.
When I cleand it all out there was a new rear bumper with excellent chrome and new black pre-molded carpet still in the box.
I figure just these two items were worth $400.00
When I cleand it all out there was a new rear bumper with excellent chrome and new black pre-molded carpet still in the box.
I figure just these two items were worth $400.00
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
I had the steering column out of my Dart during some interior work. Bolted it back in a few days later and a couple days after that my Mopar-centric friend Chris comes to visit. I tell him, "Go look in the Dart and see if you notice anything different." (Meaning the auto-to-manual column conversion).
He comes back in and says, "That's the ugliest possum I have ever seen."
We spent about 4 hours pulling BOTH seats AND the carpet out of the car, because the possum refused to let go of the damn carpet.
He comes back in and says, "That's the ugliest possum I have ever seen."
We spent about 4 hours pulling BOTH seats AND the carpet out of the car, because the possum refused to let go of the damn carpet.
66plyValiant
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when taking the door apart on my 1988 dodge dakota to fix the power window motor I noticed on the back of the door pannel a sticker that said "built in detroit, finished on december 16 1987" in hand writing and a signature thought it was pretty cool
on a dodge truck I bought for $100 for parts I found about 300' of high grade chain
on a dodge truck I bought for $100 for parts I found about 300' of high grade chain
4404spd
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My Cuda hasn't been on the road since 1976 and I found this bag of pot wedged in between the heater core and the the heater box.
sean
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I bought a parts car ('67 notch) and dug thru it, found OLD birth control pill dispenser and bobbie pins EVERYWHERE! in the trunk, Brand new still in box torque converter, four barrel iron manifold. Hot Mess Hot Rod?
1970valiant
young gun
i hate spiders... when i bought my car from the previous owner it had been sitting for awhile and there were webs all under the car. so i bought it and parked it on the side of the house and the spiders made there webs again and bigger... when i pulled my engine and was sanding my engine bay to paint it, i would have about 5 bites on my legs every time i stepped into the engine bay. so i got pissed and took the pressure washer and sprayed the little bastards away. most dident come back but i have never actually saw any of the spiders, just there webs and bite marks.
and i also found some burnt weed in the ash tray haha
and i also found some burnt weed in the ash tray haha
cudavert
DARTAHOLIC
That's friggin' AWESOME!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I'll bet there's someone out there stupid enough to smoke that hay too!
4404spd
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Its all sticks now, Could you imagine putting your brand new bag of weed in the passenger sides vent and it slides all the way over to the heater core and gets wedged. I bet who ever it was, was pissed! That weed dont have any value left to it anymore anyway.
hemitheus
19? Plymouth Scampenstein
page 2... thats a cat skull
A litter of 3 kittens behind the rear seat. Didn't know they were there until we heard them crying. My wife bottle fed them and they all survived. I bought the car near Hazleton Pa. The mother probably jumped out.
I Went back where I bought it. They didn't own a cat. The mother had them in in the trunk behind the rear seat. The spare tire tub was rotted so it was the entrance for her.
A nest of Copperhead snakes in a 70 Road Runner. At the time I had a garage in Whitehall Pa. I bought the car sitting at the base of the mountain in Danielsville Pa where I live now. The car hit a cement colvert in 1970 . It sat there since. I was taking the clutch pedal assembly out when i felt something move across my hand. We saw it and flushed it out with the accetyline torch. When it came out we killed it with a shovel
The next day when I opened up. I walked in the shop and there were what looked to be like little cat turds all over the floor. As I walked by one it jumped at me. They were everywhere. for months until winter set in you had to be carefull of everything you moved. What was amazing no one got bit.
My next door nieghbor worked for me back then at age 16. I was just over there last night to tell him about my heartattack on the 18th and we started talking about old times. All the cars we did. The snakes were brought up last night . I remember not taking my nephew to the shop for a long time He was about 7 years old. he is now 32. That was a long time ago. I have pictures of that car and I believe the little turds.
Found alot of things but those stuck in my mind the most. I have been around buying stripping and restoring cars for a long time. I remember when I was 13 and had to help my dad. He was into Chrysler 300's. I loved looking through the cars for money. I think the first thing I learned was how to take a rear seat out. You know still today the first thing I do when a parts car comes in is look under the back seat. I have a Neon to do tommorrow. I'll make someone take it out for me but I will be the first one in. Those are the rules here at the shop.
I Went back where I bought it. They didn't own a cat. The mother had them in in the trunk behind the rear seat. The spare tire tub was rotted so it was the entrance for her.
A nest of Copperhead snakes in a 70 Road Runner. At the time I had a garage in Whitehall Pa. I bought the car sitting at the base of the mountain in Danielsville Pa where I live now. The car hit a cement colvert in 1970 . It sat there since. I was taking the clutch pedal assembly out when i felt something move across my hand. We saw it and flushed it out with the accetyline torch. When it came out we killed it with a shovel
The next day when I opened up. I walked in the shop and there were what looked to be like little cat turds all over the floor. As I walked by one it jumped at me. They were everywhere. for months until winter set in you had to be carefull of everything you moved. What was amazing no one got bit.
My next door nieghbor worked for me back then at age 16. I was just over there last night to tell him about my heartattack on the 18th and we started talking about old times. All the cars we did. The snakes were brought up last night . I remember not taking my nephew to the shop for a long time He was about 7 years old. he is now 32. That was a long time ago. I have pictures of that car and I believe the little turds.
Found alot of things but those stuck in my mind the most. I have been around buying stripping and restoring cars for a long time. I remember when I was 13 and had to help my dad. He was into Chrysler 300's. I loved looking through the cars for money. I think the first thing I learned was how to take a rear seat out. You know still today the first thing I do when a parts car comes in is look under the back seat. I have a Neon to do tommorrow. I'll make someone take it out for me but I will be the first one in. Those are the rules here at the shop.
Dusteriffic
Stink finger
Did the goat have a smile on its face?
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