What's the strangest thing you've found...?

Some things I have found,

Over $100.00 in quarters in baggies hidden around the inside of a truck ($20.00 per bag) and they were not rolled.

A sour cream container full of rattle snake tails.

A complete westward 1/2 inch drive socket set and a bunch of other tools in a truck I bought used at a dealer.

But I have found some of my best stuff at Pick In Pull like a $50.00 when I pulled a passenger seat out of a Ranger, found a Snap on Ratchet screwdriver and a bunch of other tools like hammers, pry bars, wrenches, sockets, plyers, vice grips and a small bag of green stinky stuff with rolling papers which I just left.

 

This is fun, while finding the build sheet under the back seat i found a Parole Restitution receipt and some rolling papers

 

Had to dig this thread up again.

I was pulling stuff out of the nicest 74 4 door Comet today .... 64,000 miles, garage kept, and sold for scrap and sitting at the U-Pull-It , nonetheless. Sad.

Anyway, while I was rummaging around in this car, the butt end of a plastic bottle was sticking out from under the drivers seat.

At first, I thought it was a drink bottle.

Then, I turned it around, looked at the odd shape, and read the lettering on the cap .... U ...R ... I ... (insert small shriek here ala Homer Simpson) ... NAL ....

I instinctually flung it into the back seat instantly. Ewwwwww ....

Got some nice stuff out of the car.

 

some change and LOTS of rat poop when i pulled the lower part of the back seat. spare keys in a magnetic case in the fender well.

 

I found deodorant, pepper spray, and a bible.... not as cool as some of the other stuff. Oh and butterfly jewelry things......

 

Found a vibrator when I was pulling a seat at the pull and save. Reached under to unbolt the seat and turned it on with the back of my hand... lol
Still got the seats... but that startled me to say the least. vvvvvvbbbbbbbvvvbbbb.

 

EWWWW!!! I dont even want to know what was done in that seat. Hope ya recovered it. LOL.

 

Actually I have no idea if it was recovered, as I sold it on craigslist...to help pay for my exhaust replacement coming up this thursday.
I can't remember if I told the guy about what was under the seat...lol

 

At a U-Pullit yard, I found an letter dated 1898.

It was addresse to a person in East Des Moines, Iowa.

My guess is that it was somones relative. I tried to goggle the name on the envelope, to find someone doing the genealogy, but came up empty.

 

If you enjoy detective work, don't give up. Check the genealogy web sites for that name. I had an old family bible with names, birth and death dates. Found a member of that family and got it too them.

Key is to find someone in the family that has an interest in their family history. Otherwise, it'll just get lost anyway. If you find someone researching that family they'll treasure it.

 

About 5 dozen plastic roses and other assorted flowers in the trunk, a check stub from a former owner for 40 hours at $3.25 per hour, the original spare rim and tire, apparently never used (maybe that's not so unusual??) and a strange contraption made of a stainless steel plate and bolted into the inside of the car above the right rear shock that is apparently designed to stablize the shock mount in some way... Still looking into that one but it doesn't seem to be a good sign.

 

i found a penny under my back seat thats the same year as ther car 1972

 

bloody camo panties, cleaner panties, hair extensions, road sign floor pans, really old cigarettes (lucky strike?),

original up to the newest insurance papers / registrations, maintenance records (written in the owners manual til 24k miles), ford credit card thing stapled to the owners manual with both the original owners name, address signatures and a build sheet in a 66 ford custom car with 27k miles i bought for $200 in 2002 and drove home (limping) (reason for my screen name..)


someone traded my car for a ranger...

 

When I took the dash out I found a wallet with $237.00 in it, a crack pipe and a 8 ball of coke.

 

Where was that car?