messages found in Charger from the factory

RAWPWR · April 07, 2006, 08:19:48 PM

Has anyone found messages from the factory in there Charger? I did on an upper rear passengers pad.

How's this for 60's stuff MAN!

I'm a little tea pot short and stout
Here is my handle, here is my spout
When you tip me over to pour me out
Sock it to me baby, let it all hang out

TruckDriver · April 07, 2006, 09:04:39 PM

Ha! Til now, I have only heard of that stuff. Pretty cool.

mustanghater · April 07, 2006, 09:36:39 PM

please tell me you saved that part or did you put it back in.

89MOPAR · April 08, 2006, 04:05:55 AM

I hope that was not written by a woman .....

RAWPWR · April 08, 2006, 09:02:10 AM

It's out of the car on the bench in my basement..Gee should I put it on e-bay as very very very rare signed option??

Brock Samson · April 08, 2006, 11:46:34 AM

That's Classic! you should frame it...

I done Demolition at some of the old industrial shops here being converted to "lofts" and we would find cool stuff in the walls like beer bottles from the '20s and Camel ciggerette packs old letters and crap the builders' obviously left to be found... i thnk the '20s was about the earlist stuff we found, jokes written in chalk or grease pencil...
Have you ever left anything?..

RAWPWR · April 08, 2006, 01:25:21 PM

as a matter of fact I have. I've gone through my house, a two family 100+ year old and I have left beer cans in the redone walls with the year we did the make over..let someone else in the future have fun finding stuff.

JimShine · April 08, 2006, 01:47:14 PM

I have left little notes under the paint of some guitars I have restored. They are sandwhiched between paint coats, so if anyone strips the paint, it will get erased. It is pointless, but maybe someday the words will surface or maybe a blacklight will reveal them.

Silver R/T · April 08, 2006, 07:18:25 PM

interesting stuff

RAWPWR · April 10, 2006, 10:09:29 AM

has anybody else ever found any messages?? I any car. There are a lot of old stories about stuff like this..

CaptMarvel · April 10, 2006, 10:26:17 AM

Quote from: Stratocharger on April 08, 2006, 11:46:34 AM

Have you ever left anything?..

I was a ceramic tile & remodeling contractor for many years (usually kitchen & bathroom stuff) I have left several "time capsules" for future generations to find buried in walls & under showers. Once I left a note saying something like, "ha ha the owner will never find out where their remote control went" just stupid stuff...I have found quite a few things too. I was demolishing a building several years ago & found a stash of company ledgers dating back to 1916 in the attic. I also found some old playing cards from the 20's & some medicinal bottles from the late 1800's. Cool stuff cause I'm a history nut anyway...

Charger_Fan · April 10, 2006, 01:23:44 PM

Quote from: CaptMarvel on April 10, 2006, 10:26:17 AM
I was demolishing a building several years ago & found a stash of company ledgers dating back to 1916 in the attic. I also found some old playing cards from the 20's & some medicinal bottles from the late 1800's. Cool stuff cause I'm a history nut anyway...

Some of that stuff would probably fetch a decent price on eGouge too, if you were ever inclined.

I like the beer can in the wall idea, I'll have to do that with a couple rooms I'm finishing up at home.

Old Moparz · April 10, 2006, 10:00:27 PM

I never found much, maybe a few old newspapers that fell apart when you tried to open them. Haven't left anything to be discovered either, but a guy I used to work with would take a dump on a newspaper, fold it up & stick it in the wall if he didn't like the person he did the work for.

JimShine · April 10, 2006, 10:01:55 PM

I remembered another find. In my '68 Charger I found an old Budweiser bottle cap inside my steering coloumn.

cobradriver · April 20, 2006, 01:06:16 PM

i found a used condom wrapper in my 69 mach the found its way under the fold down rear seat....of course i think it was mine from 1984 when i was dating a cops daughter...lol.....

rare69 · April 20, 2006, 08:14:18 PM

there was a article in a mopar magazine a few months ago showing the quarter panel of a corenet from the inside of the trunk, and there was a mesage written in the undercoating stating, I'm not working Saturday!

Beer · April 20, 2006, 08:24:59 PM

I found a orange juice can strategically located and wedged under the the wiper assembly area of my 73 by the drivers side.

Drache · April 21, 2006, 12:22:58 AM

There was a 1500's or so Spanish helm found in the rafters of a house in the U.S. that was built in the 30's. How it got there no one knows!

70charginglizard · April 21, 2006, 02:13:58 PM

Quote from: JimShine on April 10, 2006, 10:01:55 PM
I remembered another find. In my '68 Charger I found an old Budweiser bottle cap inside my steering coloumn.

MUST HAVE BEEN THE SAME GUY WHO HAD MY CHARGER FOR A WHILE BECAUSE MINE HAD ONE THERE TOO...LMAO

41husk · April 21, 2006, 02:44:40 PM

Quote from: cobradriver on April 20, 2006, 01:06:16 PM
i found a used condom wrapper in my 69 mach the found its way under the fold down rear seat....of course i think it was mine from 1984 when i was dating a cops daughter...lol.....

That must have been the worlds shortest message

cobradriver · April 27, 2006, 08:03:28 PM

ouch that hurt...lol....

41husk · April 28, 2006, 07:12:10 AM

Just playin, Cobradriver!

Ghoste · April 28, 2006, 08:10:00 AM

A buddy of mine found a pack of rolling papers under the carpet in a 69 Charger he was restoring. I don't think I've ever seen any written messages in a car though.

Wakko · April 28, 2006, 09:05:04 AM

OldMoparz, that Gif is downright disturbing!

4402tuff4u · April 28, 2006, 10:29:26 AM

Quote from: RAWPWR on April 10, 2006, 10:09:29 AM
has anybody else ever found any messages?? I any car. There are a lot of old stories about stuff like this..

My next door neighbor has a 71 Cuda sassy green shaker hood 6 pack 440 and he found "Rocky was here" under the original carpet. I found a yellow paint stick number "72" on my 68 Charger and a one "OK" yellow painted stamp markings in the engine compartments.

jmanscharger · April 28, 2006, 02:34:44 PM

My dad heard a rattle in his door everytime he shut it. He took it back to the dealer and behind the door panel in the bottom of the door there was a coke bottle with a note inside saying "I wonder how long it will take you sob's to find this?"

chrisII · April 29, 2006, 07:34:16 PM

Quote from: 4402tuff4u on April 28, 2006, 10:29:26 AM
Quote from: RAWPWR on April 10, 2006, 10:09:29 AM
has anybody else ever found any messages?? I any car. There are a lot of old stories about stuff like this..

My next door neighbor has a 71 Cuda sassy green shaker hood 6 pack 440 and he found "Rocky was here" under the original carpet. I found a yellow paint stick number "72" on my 68 Charger and a one "OK" yellow painted stamp markings in the engine compartments.

I have read of other E bodys "signed" by "the rock" he is somewhat famous with the cuda/challenger guys, yet as far as i know nobody has found his true identity. think i read about it in one of the mopar mags a few years back

cobradriver · April 30, 2006, 09:32:20 AM

the ok stuff is normal ....quality control stuff.....had that all over my 69 mach1, 428cj......good times good times.....

RAWPWR · April 05, 2007, 08:23:54 PM

just bring this topic back :RantExplode:to the top

bordin34 · April 05, 2007, 08:28:51 PM

I found part of a Nixon resignation newspaper under the rear seat of my 74 charger.

Magnumcharger · April 05, 2007, 08:40:21 PM

I found Nixon under my back seat.
He was tape-recording my conversations...

jasonfromIKILLYA · April 05, 2007, 10:30:52 PM

I recently left 11 years of the painting profession and I've left many "time capsules". We wallpapered a doctors office once and had to work nights. We wrote all over the walls....

hemi-hampton · April 05, 2007, 10:47:52 PM

I found the Infamous ROCK written on a inside rear wheelwell on a Red T/A I was restoring, I here this is common on these E-Body's. P.S. I collect Old Beer cans & Pay big $$$ Hundreds for certain rare cans for anybody that has found any or has any. Let me know? LEON.

bordin34 · April 05, 2007, 10:50:29 PM

Now get this everybody. On my charger there is also a marking that looks like KO when put in a mirror. Weird isn't it?

PocketThunder · April 05, 2007, 11:23:20 PM

Quote from: bordin34 on April 05, 2007, 10:50:29 PM
Now get this everybody. On my charger there is also a marking that looks like KO when put in a mirror. Weird isn't it?

Whoa!!!

bmoparmofo · April 06, 2007, 12:47:23 AM

I remember reading one of the mopar mags from the 80's I think, Somebody was restoring their car, removed the gas tank, and underneath someone had been playing tic tac toe, I was a prep maechanic for a pontiac dealer in the mid 90's and I also found a coke bottle in a door, misc tools, a rather annoying was on a grand am, the power sunroof wouldnt open all the way, after dropping the headliner down the was a pair of pliers stuck up there

, also in one car there was a sign on the dash that said OLD CAR PLEASE RUSH

not a good sign if youre the prep guy...lol, by the way that was proably the worst car I ever had to prep...Lots of stories about that job

68chrgrwife · April 06, 2007, 01:06:07 AM

i don't know about stuff being there already, but i do know that hubby is putting all of our handprints with our names and date on the cross section behind the rear seat. I think it is pretty neat....

1BAD68 · April 06, 2007, 09:20:36 AM

I found an old speeding ticket from '74 and a chain made from pulltabs from beer cans under the seats of my 70 Charger,
nothing from the factory though.

The70RT · April 06, 2007, 09:34:09 AM

I replaced a quarter panel on my Charger and the lower part had lots of budwieser caps lodged in there.

RAWPWR · April 06, 2007, 11:48:48 AM

I remember making chains from pulltabs

MichaelRW · April 06, 2007, 12:29:58 PM

Years ago when I worked at an Oldsmobile dealer after school and Saturdays a customer brought their brand new Vista Cruiser in because there was a rattle coming from the inside rear of the vehicle. Had a heck of time trying to find the cause of the rattle. Wound up removing the inside body panel on the right side of the cargo area and found an air gun that had been left in there at the factory when the car was being built.

old man · April 06, 2007, 02:29:45 PM

There was a guy about thirty miles away from me who about five years found a surprise tearing down a house. While tearing down a wall he found a Japanese submachine gun wrapped in a army blanket inside the wall. It was in decent shape and one night while drinking a great deal he was showing it off outside a bar. One of the guys walking out was a local cop who busted him for possession of a class three machine gun without a federal licence. He had to get a lawyer and cost him a good deal of money to stay out of prision. He wound up with a three year probation sentance. The gun was taken by the federal goverment and was to be cut up.

68chrgrwife · April 06, 2007, 02:38:02 PM

Quote from: old man on April 06, 2007, 02:29:45 PM
There was a guy about thirty miles away from me who about five years found a surprise tearing down a house. While tearing down a wall he found a Japanese submachine gun wrapped in a army blanket inside the wall. It was in decent shape and one night while drinking a great deal he was showing it off outside a bar. One of the guys walking out was a local cop who busted him for possession of a class three machine gun without a federal licence. He had to get a lawyer and cost him a good deal of money to stay out of prision. He wound up with a three year probation sentance. The gun was taken by the federal goverment and was to be cut up.

Wow, Now that is a story! You know that all military guys bring back some kind of war treasure......

old man · April 06, 2007, 02:52:08 PM

Quote from: 68chrgrwife on April 06, 2007, 02:38:02 PM
Quote from: old man on April 06, 2007, 02:29:45 PM
There was a guy about thirty miles away from me who about five years found a surprise tearing down a house. While tearing down a wall he found a Japanese submachine gun wrapped in a army blanket inside the wall. It was in decent shape and one night while drinking a great deal he was showing it off outside a bar. One of the guys walking out was a local cop who busted him for possession of a class three machine gun without a federal licence. He had to get a lawyer and cost him a good deal of money to stay out of prision. He wound up with a three year probation sentance. The gun was taken by the federal goverment and was to be cut up.

Wow, Now that is a story! You know that all military guys bring back some kind of war treasure......

Yes I bought three German Lugars in SS wafen holsters and about 10 different rifles from a lady whos husband just died and he had brought them back from WW2. I paid almost nothing for them and sold the pistols for $600 each two months later to a collector. The rifles I took to a gun show and sold them all in less than 15 minutes. I think I gave her $500 for the whole mess after she made the offer to me.

Dodge Don · April 06, 2007, 05:23:25 PM

When I tore apart my entire dash down to the frame, a piece of folded paper fell out from behind the cluster bezels.......it was a Chrysler Vehicle Pass to enter the St. Louis Assembly Plant

69Coronet · April 06, 2007, 05:23:26 PM

I live in a hundred year old house and up in the attic on two of the walls you can see two giant love notes written to his wife or girlfriend or something dated November 19, 1916 written in pink chalk.

On ebay i saw a 1968 Coronet forsale that hadnt been restored and in the trunk one of the factory workers got unhappy and wrote with trunk sealer " I'm not working Saturday".

quapman · April 06, 2007, 08:46:39 PM

I've had five E-bodies with "Rock" in them and at least one car with a Tic-Tac-Toe game. Swastikas seemed to be a big theme on one Cuda too. Usually behind the rear seat panels. I have pictures somewhere, but I'd need a week to find them!

Rallyecharger · April 06, 2007, 08:57:25 PM

Back in the 90's at the Ford dealer I was working at I watched our trim Technician look for a rattle in a minivan.He spent all morning roadtesting,pulling apart panels etc. He figured it was in the rear cargo area but no luck.Then after running out of options he pulled the rear bumper cover off.There stuffed in the inside of the rear bumper frame was a beer bottle!! The Ford assembly line guys must of had a good laugh!! But try explaining that to Ford Warranty hotline..............

The70RT · April 06, 2007, 09:36:52 PM

Behind my Chargers back seat is V W 8-20 in what looks like red magic marker about a foot long. On the drivers side floor is a big 2' X 2' - X in white spray paint. Im sure they are factory markings....any Ideas on that?

LargerCharger383 · April 07, 2007, 12:12:15 AM

that's gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever seen, nice find!

sunroofsuperbird · April 07, 2007, 09:17:09 AM

I redone a 71 camaro awhile back and under where the trunk spoiler bolts down and was sealed someone had wrote [ iTS FRIDAY AND IM THE F*** OUT OF HERE ] I though that was neat so I resealed the spoiler and bolted it back on and left it when I repainted it. Car had never been restored before so it was orig. I also have a 78 Super Coupe aspen that when I pulled the carpet out there was a new dome lamp assy inside door handel and fuse cover under there since new.

Brock Samson · April 07, 2007, 10:44:06 AM

i see we have grown from the FACTORY stuff to the found stuff in homes or wherever,..
so I'll incl. the stuff i found under the B.S.G.'s rear seat..

Yesterday Thurs. April the 25th 2006,10:00 am: i alloted 45 minutes to go down and pull the rear seat and take alittle look see,..
seat wouldn't budge,.. got a hernia,.. got another hernia and wrenched my back,.. seat no movee,..

finally after 30 minutes of rearranging my spine i pulled the one corner of the upper seat back that was unstuck as far out as i could and wedged my head behind it and under the parcel shelf and rear glass to see WTF was'a going on?...
couldn't see too much cause it was dark, but my head got stuck,.. did i mention i was swearing?.. ..alot?.. lots of time passed where i realized this was really a two man operation,..
one to cry in out pain and frustration and another to call an ambulance...
i'll cut to the chase...

went thru the trunk with a long screwdriver to bend the bottom out board hooks back to a position that actually allowed them to un hook...
upon removal of the seat, i discovered a treasure trove of items unseen since Jimmy Carter the peanut farmer was in office...

a diary with two entries,.. no year... in spainish.

a unused book of matches from Harrahs' Reno.

a small bottle of English Leather aftershave.

a school absence report from 1975.

a post card from Diamond Lake and Mount Thielsen. (to Linsey from Sandy, sounds like it was a nice Vacation but no postage or stamp so it was never sent )

a tooled buckskin wallett with a couple biz cards for spanish Biz development and a sears and robuck layaway receipt.

a small, round, sticker that says "People Really Count".

a wide variety of local Maps incl. a USA road guide & atlas and Penticostal relgious materials.

four pencils, two pens,.. a metal nail file, $1.26 in change, 4 quarters, two dimes and two pennies.

metal clasp like onna clipboard and a elastic cord...

alot of dirt and dust from the carpet jute and road dust,.. at this point i decided to abandon my idea of only cleaning the drivers side and leaving the years of grime on the Pass. side... so i got the scrapers and shop vac out...

P.S.
the build sheet (in shredded pieces) was handed to me by the previous owner who apparently bought the 78K mile '71 340 for $4K in june last yr... im attempting a reconstruction of the B.S. in plastic, still needed... it was under the front seat...

the trunk contained recepts for the three sets of "Big O" tires the car has appearently worn... a Carb box containing the original 850 Cfm carb. two fan belts, the original Polyglass f-14 70... & the jack never seems to have been out of the car..
Seems im slowly stripping her for cleaning...

oh, i nearly forgot, hanging from the rear V Brace behind the rear seat, was a really neat silver and gold medallion i would guess is from the '70s..

Brock Samson · April 07, 2007, 10:45:53 AM

the post card:

Brock Samson · April 07, 2007, 10:47:25 AM

what it says:

68chrgrwife · April 07, 2007, 02:14:50 PM

Quote from: Brock Samson on April 07, 2007, 10:44:06 AM
four pencils, two pens,.. a metal nail file, $1.26 in change, 4 quarters, two dimes and two pennies.

I'm no math major but that only equals $1.22 not $1.26.......

Spike · April 07, 2007, 03:16:09 PM

I found Jimmy Hoffa in my trunk

BigBlackDodge · April 07, 2007, 06:32:39 PM

Quote from: 68chrgrwife on April 07, 2007, 02:14:50 PM
Quote from: Brock Samson on April 07, 2007, 10:44:06 AM
four pencils, two pens,.. a metal nail file, $1.26 in change, 4 quarters, two dimes and two pennies.

I'm no math major but that only equals $1.22 not $1.26.......

Inflation perhaps?

BBD

Telvis · April 07, 2007, 06:44:01 PM

Quote from: 68chrgrwife on April 07, 2007, 02:14:50 PM
Quote from: Brock Samson on April 07, 2007, 10:44:06 AM
four pencils, two pens,.. a metal nail file, $1.26 in change, 4 quarters, two dimes and two pennies.

I'm no math major but that only equals $1.22 not $1.26.......

RDR-838 · April 07, 2007, 08:17:23 PM

A couple of days ago, I removed the uper passenger door pad from my '69. On the back side of the pad, "Bart" left his signature.

Brock Samson · April 07, 2007, 09:13:17 PM

yeah,..

Who Knew?. $:-\$

MorePwr · April 07, 2007, 11:05:12 PM

I've never found anything as cool as Rawpwrs find. I think I'd frame that one. I did find a six pack of really old, beer and 5 empty, but one full. I was hiking along an old highway that had been closed for 60 years or so. they were laying next to to an old wood spoke wheel with a badly shredded tire. I imagined someone getting buzzed while changing a tire. back in the day when it was ok to do that. heck, he probably shared it with a trooper that stopped to help

Brock I like your time capsule there. I think I'll go pull the back seat in my Satellite and see what treasure I might have

JR · April 08, 2007, 08:39:28 PM

I've never found anything in any of my cars. I found a pic of the last owners son in his baseball gear under my rear seat. Thats it though.

However, I do work for an Auto Trim Design and have left stuff in others cars. There was this one air force guy who bought in an 87 Tercel Hatchback for a headliner one day. I should have known he'd be an ass when he spent an hour picking out what color he wanted in it. He chewed us out of 77 dollars because I broke the bottom corner of some old, brittle trim. Anyway, he went over it with a fine tooth comb when he came to pick it up. This is an 87 Tercel mind you, he sees some MINOR imperfections, and I mean MINOR, when he throws a fit and demands it gets redone. He had also just got it painted and the engine rebuilt and told me its very fast...

Anyway, when I pulled the headliner back down, I wrote on the backside, "I'm sorry you had to work on this &^%@suckers car!" for whoever is unfortunate enough to touch it again....

deputycrawford · April 08, 2007, 09:16:46 PM

I had another deputy tell me that he worked as a mechanic at a chevy dealer when he was a kid and had a Corvette come in with a very wierd sound when the car turned a corner. After MANY test dirves and strip jobs, they finally cut the end off a box frame cross member. Out came an entire loose pack of BB's you might find for a BB gun. Apparently they would roll back and forth as the car turned corners.
They would check the car out and send it home. Supposedly it took them months to find the problem. I hope they checked the VIN and found the date, shift and person who did it. i hope they lost their job over it.

dongar69 · April 09, 2007, 08:00:37 AM

My dad and I bought a '64 Impala SS in 1979. During disassembly for rebuild, we found a 1964 silver quarter under the back seat.
Dad still has it.

Big J · April 10, 2007, 04:42:00 AM

While disassembling a '69 Charger R/T I found a set of keys from a Ford with a really neat "Esso" keychain. The keychain had a cast medallion with the word "Esso" on it and a 3D casting of the Tiger. They were under the carpet of an original car parked since 1974 so I'm pretty positive they came from the factory. I put the Charger's keys on it & used it for years until the chain loop on the medallion broke.

Also, while cutting off the lower rear quarter of a 1968 Coronet R/T, I found about a dozen bullets lying right in the crack where the quarter meets the trunk extension and only a few inches from where I was cutting. Thankfully I was using a cutting wheel & not the torch.

tricky lugnuts · April 12, 2007, 12:07:43 PM

When I got my car 7 years ago (from Arizona) I found a ton of really old looking poker chips under the back seat, a sand-filled plastic bag of "Tom's Spiced Drops" in the brakes (My name is Tom) and a ton, literally, of crazy looking bird feathers in my heater box. There is currently a pair of scissors stuck in between my quarter panel and trunk extension on the passenger side. They don't rattle and I can't get them out. They look like some pretty old scissors. I can play with them through the body plug in the bottom of the extension, but there is no way to get them out that I have been able to find.

LL1 1967 Coronet · April 12, 2007, 12:25:51 PM

I lost my virginity in the rear (folded down seat) of a 1981 TC3....oh, I'm sorry, we're talking about things that were found - - my mistake.

The70RT · April 12, 2007, 12:57:56 PM

Quote from: LL1 1967 Coronet on April 12, 2007, 12:25:51 PM
I lost my virginity in the rear (folded down seat) of a 1981 TC3....oh, I'm sorry, we're talking about things that were found - - my mistake.

71 Fury for me

Drache · April 12, 2007, 04:26:02 PM

Quote from: The70RT on April 12, 2007, 12:57:56 PM
Quote from: LL1 1967 Coronet on April 12, 2007, 12:25:51 PM
I lost my virginity in the rear (folded down seat) of a 1981 TC3....oh, I'm sorry, we're talking about things that were found - - my mistake.

71 Fury for me

'69 Camaro

JR · April 12, 2007, 05:13:55 PM

Quote from: Drache on April 12, 2007, 04:26:02 PM
Quote from: The70RT on April 12, 2007, 12:57:56 PM
Quote from: LL1 1967 Coronet on April 12, 2007, 12:25:51 PM
I lost my virginity in the rear (folded down seat) of a 1981 TC3....oh, I'm sorry, we're talking about things that were found - - my mistake.

71 Fury for me

'69 Camaro

99 Ford Conversion Van here. Fold down back seat baby!!

skyhawk61 · April 12, 2007, 06:06:50 PM

Since you mentioned fold-down back seats...ahem...In 1970, I took the rear seats out of the 67 Barracuda Formula S that I had bought used in order to clean the carpets. I found a pair of women's blue bikini undies and one nylon stocking jammed in the space between the seat bottom and the fold-down backrest. Perhaps this explains why I used to see these cars parked with the rear window facing the screen at the drive-in movies..back when we had drive-in movies.

daves68 · April 12, 2007, 07:49:13 PM

Bought my 68 when I graduated from HS in 71. Had a rattle in the left rear I could never find. Replaced the rusty rear quarters in 76 and when we cut them off, out fell an extra trunk hinge arm. It had been wedged between the panel and the inner fender. Out of sight but not out of mind.

69-DodgeCharger · April 12, 2007, 11:28:58 PM

Quote from: jmanscharger on April 28, 2006, 02:34:44 PM
My dad heard a rattle in his door everytime he shut it. He took it back to the dealer and behind the door panel in the bottom of the door there was a coke bottle with a note inside saying "I wonder how long it will take you sob's to find this?"

LMAO that is awesome

CharlieCharger · April 13, 2007, 05:27:19 PM

My dad and I found some pesos in the kick panel area..of his mexican ramcharger when redoing the interior

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