What is the strangest thing that you have found in your car when restoring it

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I figured I would see what you guys have found. For Example (I know its not a Mopar) I did a 69 Camaro for a guy. I had to pick the car up in Union NJ and bring it up to my shop in Washington NJ. During the tear down I found a old news paper classify under the rear seat. Its was for the Camaro back in 1972. It was advertised by Birds Chevrolet (now out of business) in Washington NJ!!!! The real freaky part was the shop that I rent was the old birds Chevrolet body shop.

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That's a cool story! I've never restored a car, or found anything crazy in a used one. Just a few bucks and change over the last 8 cars.
 
I didn't restore this car just got it for parts but it was 68' barracuda
and while removing the dash I found a bag of weed! wohoo
it was so damn dry you could make powder out of it
 
My 65 Newport had a square cut-out behind the rear seat. You could hear the rear-end pretty good. Maybe for stuffing contraband from below. I bought the car from an AF officer who got it from his grandmom who owned it since new, so maybe a deviant relative was having grandmom unknowingly haul their stuff.
 
Or maybe just a drug tot'en grandmother. Rum running was getting to hard for her LOL
 
cudascott said:
I didn't restore this car just got it for parts but it was 68' barracuda
and while removing the dash I found a bag of weed! wohoo
it was so damn dry you could make powder out of it
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Roll a Fatty for the Pimp Daddy and Spark it up man!!!!
 
I bought a pu from an old man it had a 1/2 hole in front of the seat couple of months later I ask the old guy what it was for he said on long trips he would take a funnel put a peace of hose on it and pee Thur it.LOL Oman I wish I wouldn't have asked............Artie:eek:ops:
 
godfatherofchry said:
I bought a pu from an old man it had a 1/2 hole in front of the seat couple of months later I ask the old guy what it was for he said on long trips he would take a funnel put a peace of hose on it and pee Thur it.LOL Oman I wish I wouldn't have asked............Artie:eek:ops:
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Lol, portable john the old method.
 
Back in Dec 2011 bought my Polara and when I took air vent hose off which leads to the
heater , I found a nest with almond shells in there. Some kinda rodent and about a month
later my wife started noticing lemons being ate .Caught me a roof rat.
 
Friend picked a 70 El Camino 350/4spd,numbers matching. Started to clean under the carpet,found the original bill of sale,and all the dealership maintenence paperwork for 18 years.The guy we got if from never looked.
 
I found the assembly line repair sheets for my Swinger under the carpet. A buddy of mine found a pistol under the back seat of his Nova
 
I found the title in a '70 dart I bought as a parts car for $200 with no title! It is now my beater with a 318 and OD four speed. Originally /6 auto.
 
PST said:
Sorry about that I didn't mean to snag your thread. I be sure to do a better search next time. To little time and to many forums to keep track of lol

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James
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LOL...no worries...I dig these stories. I just figured you would dig them too. So i posted the link...

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I am sure the statue of limitations has past. When I was still high school my moms plymouth station wagon was in for service and they gave her a loanner car ( yea they really use to do that). I had the car out with a buddy and in the glove box was blank gun but it looked like a 22 auto. My DA buddy pulls it out and points it at people walking on the side of the road. He starts yelling like a mad man and starts shooting this thing. I sure they thought it was real and scared the crap out of them. Needless to say I left that neighborhood and did not go back with this car and it went back to the dealer the next day. I pretty much quite hanging with this guy after this. :-k
 
Lol the gun was more of a paper weight. It looked like an old break top H&R, 38 short maybe not sure. The bore of the barrel was pitted up pretty bad and the gun over all was super rusty. Its probly still hanging on the wall in his mom and dads barn.
 
A friend bought an old beater Ford pickup for a shop truck off a newspaper ad. When he got it back to the shop we must have found and removed at least ten partially full pint and half pint whiskey bottles hidden throughout it. Every time we would work on it we would bust out laughing when we would discover another bottle hidden in some obscure place. I'll bet before he got rid of it he had found 25 whiskey bottles stashed, taped, tie wrapped or otherwise hidden in the thing.
 
Great Stories Guys! Another one is I had a customer that had a fetish with Lincoln Town Cars from the 80's. He was a Big Guy original from Cuba (the enforcer type). He had about a half a dozen and everytime I turned around he would drop another one off for either engine performance mods or repaints and body works but we never complained as he always paid in cash. Well one day he drop off one of the Lincolns wanting a repaint. So I started the usual removing of moldings. I then pop the trunk to get at some of the speed nuts for 1/4 moldings off. There buried in the drop down section of the trunk was a night stick and a rather large knife wrapped up. "The Gods honest truth" when he came to pick up the car I asked him what type of work he used to do as he was "retired now". He said that he owned a trucking company for garbage disposal lol. There on in I never ask any questions. LOL

"The Disposal Business" wink wink
 
I have found weed and meth in salvage yard cars. My friend Chris used to work on Police cars for KCPD and would find all kinds of neat stuff in the cop cars. He had a bunch of ammo and paint blanks on top of his toolbox that he'd found in cars that came in for service.
 
A seedling in my 68 Coronet, and several black widows in my 66 Sat (almost caught the car on fire w/ the spray can and lighter....)they came back the next summer, none this year and I hope it stays that way!
 
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