What stuff have you found in your cars from previous owners?

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Steve69Fish

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Today I ripped out the shredded old glove box in my barracuda, and in the dash grooves below it I found a treasure trove of random stuff, many items having locations on them showing my car has been in Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania before coming to sunny New York:

A ton of filth, of course, as a PO was evidently a mouse....
A few match books
Random washers, screws, nuts, and bolts
A 5/16 Wright socket
A restaurant business card from Georgia
An Atlas 15A fuse case with a burnt fuse in it
A few pencils from various places
A Hohner Harmonica box top
A knob for a seat adjuster lever
A broken off knob from a window crank
An Avon for Men "Tai Wind" fragrance sample packet, still sealed
Half a small scallop shell
An aluminum Golf Divot Repair tool
Some gasket that looks like Harry Potter's glasses
A partial wooden souvenir coin from Glen Mills, PA saying Buffalo Bill something
A Navy Peacoat Anchor button
A crushed roll of electrical tape
A Florida Institute of Technology ID for a previous owner, '71-'72 academic year
A 1965 quarter
A Partial Build Sheet
A pair of .22 caliber bullets

And all of that was just below the glove box. So what interesting stuff have you all come accross when digging into your cars?
 
The best part was the ID, though. Has a name, a picture showing awesome '70s hair, and a birth date, so I'm hoping to be able to find an email or contact info for him to ask about the car's history!
 
A bag of dirt weed, military blanket, a speeding ticket from 1986, and a lot of cig butts
 
I put a new heater core in my '72 swinger last winter and when I took out the glove box liner I found a moldy $20 bill and lots of coins, along with a few moldy matchbooks. All was found in the metal under the glove box liner, there's a reinforcement at the lower edge of the dash that collected it all.
 
Not an A body,A '69 Road Runner..(383 /727 cruise control/A.C car..)Had a couple of B body tic tock dash clusters,a complete 833 a body four speed setup,& unremarkable other stuff.. Remember, this is '92 .? The Road Runner is restored,I horse traded parts,for labor ,& ended up with a '72 Scamp..
 
A broken condom under the back seat of a 74. Might have dna from a new member? Wonder if they want it back?
 
I bought a more door Dart (73) for the engine, I found a very large bag of arrow heads someone picked up, and three rods and reels between the back seat and trunk
 
Bible, rosary beads, playing pieces from the game of Life and situation cards from the Six Million Dollar Man game- 67 Belvedere wagon.

That's the latest.

One of my friends found two crisp 50 dollar bills between the console lid and pad on a 66 Charger he bought to part out.
 
1970 KOA membership card in the dash of 1970 D200 camper special I bought.
 
Wow.

All I seem to find from previous owner is stuff he broke and didn't tell me about! :mad:
 
I bought my 73 Duster from an out-of-state state trooper. He told me he never really drove it much. When the insides were torn out under the dash there was some weird wiring that went back to the trunk. The connectors sure looked like computer or com gear connectors. Maybe he was telling the truth maybe he didn't drive it much. Maybe it just sat around for long periods of time. :)

Dennis
 
When I removed the backseat on my 66 barracuda - besides dirt, found coupons (expired early 80s), puzzle pieces, small coins, some seat form, mouse crap, and random stuff

Best of all found a ford key - so my cuda ate a mustang

Oh, and a build sheet

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My wagon came from LA and the PO must have loved the beach. I had at least half of Santa Monica beach in the and under the seats!
 
When I bought the 72 Dart Custom 4 door, the driver side front fender and under bumper fascia were beat to hell.
Within a few days I drove it from Chicago to just beyond Cincinnati into Kentucky.
As luck would have it, a major exhaust leak developed in SE Indiana.
Ohio state police sitting at the border took one look at me coming and wasted not one second pulling me over.
I explained I had just bought the car a few days before, and was on the way to a service call job, while the second trooper had a quick look through the car.
This was very late at night.
When I had a look around inside a few days later to see what the previous owner owner had left, there were marijuana seeds and a tiny roach in the ash tray.
I was more than a little upset, but very thankful that I had not gone directly to jail that night!
 
I bought a '69 Corvair Convertible from original owner. This was in the 80s & their son was selling it. In the trunk there was a glass bottle of washer fluid in a little sheet metal holder. Carefully tucked & hidden between the bottle & holder were two vintage condoms.
 
Some coins, a small bottle of touch-up paint (FE5), matchbooks and a coupon for a free game of bowling from a bowling alley in NJ.
 
Been discussed before, but I found build sheets for a car one year older with "Do NOT Build" printed on the bottom, along with other sheets saying "Last Job" dated for my birthday!
 
In the barracuda not nearly as much as I would have expected as the PO was the original owner so it had seen a lot of time/miles,

28 Pens
1 Steak Knife
1 AAA Membership from 1971
1 Notebook with random schematics, (PO was an Electrical Engineer)

oh and a street sign instead of a drivers side floor...
 
I've never found anything but the average stuff like you mentioned. However, when I was a tech at the local Toyota dealer years ago, the clean up boys found 3 bricks of cocaine and about 175K dollars in the spare tire well of a trade in. The GBI was up our every orifice the remainder of that week.
 
These are great stories. Some are downright funny, and some are just .... ewwwwwww. I enjoyed digging through my car's past based on that stuff. Every one of them has a story to tell. I'm wondering what else I'll find when I eventually pull the entire dash!
 
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