Made my day!

This may sound stupid to most of you, because you probrably knew about it, but I didn't. I have a 1970 Ford Maverick that I am currently dismantling to rebuild from the ground up. This weekend I was working pulling the interior. After getting the front seat unbolted, I removed it form the car and stood it in the corner of the garage. As I was pulling the build sheet from it, I noticed a little bag hung on a clip. It contained the original owner's manual, reciept of purchase, and other Ford documents. I was thrilled. Everything is in good condiution, except the receipt of purchase, which has half missing. I didn't know about the clip under the driver's seat, but it makes sense since there isn't a glove box. Well, it made my day so I thought I would share it with everyone else in case someone else doesn't know about the clip. Those documents will go nicely with my original Ford Maverick briefcase. My grandpa got it as a gift back in 1969 at the unveiling of the Maverick. He was VP of a Ford dealership in Philly at the time.

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Sweet! awesome to have that stuff.

 

Congrats, nice find! Would love to see pics of the briefcase.

 

Dittos to that.

 

i found the build shet, nothing as cool as you found tho

 

Waht years would have had the that info under the front seat? Or other wise loacated in the car, I've heard that build sheets or something were placed in fenders.
Does that vary by manufacturer?

 

Very cool finding the stash of paperwork.

My 72 Comet had the build sheet stuck in the springs under the drivers seat. It came out in about 8 pieces with several others missing. What I do have is now preserved, glued to a piece of cardboard.

 

I will try to get some pictures up for you guys soon. I broke my digital camera a couple of months ago and put off getting a new one. My fiance wanted me to wait until Black Friday because she says they would be on sale and I could get a digital video camera for the price of a still image camera.

 

tis the season for massive sales.

i dont think its worth fighting the crowds tho myself.

 

that's very cool. I wish I could have found anything on the cars I own.

 

Most reviews of video cameras that have a still photo feature that I have read said "don't count on this for good still shots". A lot of them are 1 megapixel or less, so they aren't quality shots. It is more of a convenience than an actual camera. I just picked up a comically-small JVC mini-DV camera for $199 that is loaded with good basic features. We still have to see how it does in low-light, but so far, we played it back through our big LCD TV, and for our modest purposes, this will be fine. Good picture. Since the move is on to hard discs in video cameras, anything that uses a tape is going down in price. Then get yourself a modest 3-5 meg still camera and you'll be set on both fronts.