What did you find restoring your car?

[mustanghater]

 We found so many things over the years it not funny. What did you find?

PS: does anyone know why their would be one radio in the dash and another behind it?

[Old Moparz]

PS: does anyone know why their would be one radio in the dash and another behind it?

Yes, sometimes shorter drivers get cold quicker than taller ones. The shorter of the short, can actually climb up inside the dash where it's a lot warmer since the heater originates from that point. Boredom can set in quickly since there's apparently nothing to do inside the dash frame, so Chrysler engineers thought they could create the convenience of being able to have a radio in there. Once you check for faulty wiring & firewall leaks, there isn't anything else to do, so you may as well listen to the radio.

[psykicpup]

da*n they told me the job was top secret!

[mustanghater]

of course this turns into a joke fest

[TheGhost]

We?

[Old Moparz]

    Relax.

The question made no sense, maybe wording it better will help. As for finding weird stuff, I found a mushroom growing out of the carpet in my Barracuda.

[JimShine]

A few dead rodents, lots of tools like screw drivers and pliars,, receipts, notes, change, broken ballast resistors, keys, garbage.

The neatest thing I have found was in my '68. When I removed the windshield the original little code tag for one of the keys was revealed wedged between the A pillar plastic, dash and glass.

[67RedCharger]

I found snake skins under the front seats as a result of the flintstone floor board on the passenger side front.   I gave "Ole Red" to the wife in 1971 and she never told me that the heater core leaked since the floor mats covered up the water.   Soooo a hole came into the passenger side floor board.   When I parked the car out by the cow pasture fence in 1982 I discovered the hole in the floor board so I threw the floor mats away since they were rotted.     I started the restoration in   2000 was when I found the snake skins along with a ground hog that had drilled out a hole in the ground under the car and had dirt piled up all around the sides around the car.   I used a FORD tractor to pull the car from the abiss of the critter world with only one wheel turning.   The other three wheels were rusted to the brake pads.   But with all of that bad aspect stuff, I found my little girls stuff under the rear seats such as hair bobs, crayons, pencils, tinker toys, coloring book, small dolls, etc: a working clear plastic wrist watch with a boy and girl on a see saw as part of the action figures ticking away (after I wound it up)   The little girl was 28 when she recovered her wrist watch in 2000.   "Ole Red" was completely re-done with every bolt removed and only the headliner stayed in the car, and the car was totally restored in every respect.   Kimberly will someday get the car when I can no longer drive her.   The rear differential was totally covered with dirt daubers 5 deep on the rear end.   I had to get the car steamed cleaned before my mechanic would touch it.   Exhuast system was done by TTI with 2 1/2 inch pipes with a H pipe, engine bored .040 thousand and blueprinted with a COMP cam per the reccomendation of Herb McCandless ( doesn't lope like a Cheby)   26" radiator 4 core with a 7 blade clutched fan with a Ingesol high speed water pump to keep the engine cool since the water jacket is so close to the cylinders. 8 track tape player still works along with the am/fm original radio but with new speakers in the rear trunk flap ( cut those holes in the trunk flap January 1967 first week I had the car)

  ~ 67RedCharger ~

[Charge It!]

The answers over here were not enough for you?   http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Test&Number=2062748&page=0&fpart=all
"We found so many things over the years it not funny".
Well what did YOU find in your LONG life of restoring cars?

[mustanghater]

I've helped out with a few times with my dad.
theirs the rely old pot
car parts
signs
tools
and that radio the puzzels everyone we talk to

[ChargerBill]

I think this was the 100th question I asked when I FIRST joined the old board.

Set of 915 heads
4 office phones
forks, knives, spoons
dish drying rack
Throw rug
1 silver quarter
2 silver dimes
bunchs of stuff.....

What gets me is that you already posted this at Moparts and were so bored you decided to post it here too.

[Brock Samson]

was it as confusingly worded, spelled and unpunctuated there too?..   

[ChargerBill]

was it as confusingly worded, spelled and unpunctuated there too?..     

Poorly worded? Did I confuse you?....

[Brock Samson]

  No! not you! HIM! 

[ChargerBill]

Oh

[TruckDriver]

Money
screw drivers (for some reason, I always find the phillips screw driver)
matches and lighters
garbage
pot pipe once
dead mice
spiders

[chrisII]

guesss that with the # of cars ive parted out or stripped for racing  i would have found more cool stuff....the normal 8 tracks and cassetttes, assorted wrenches (always look under the radiator on an older (72-92)  dodge truck) i have a nice stanley tape mesure, and a "buck knife"never anything cool tho.

[BigBlockSam]

i found a bar of ivory soup from the late 70's under the rear seat. i found that some one fixed both quarters and fenders with a old corrugated pool. it even had woodgrain contact paper on it. then  an inch of bondo. the guy was an artist, cause it looked good. Rene

[Brock Samson]

Ask Todd about his '69 quarters sometime... 

[hemihead]

I found an old lunch bag inside my lower 1/4, in front of the wheel well.I'm guessing from the assembly line because there were never any repairs made there.I forget the name on it.I also had a friend who bought a new 69 Road Runner and found cigarette butts in the valve train area.Later, I read guys smoking on the line would duck their butts in there so they won't get caught smoking on the line.

[CB]

pocket knife
coins
mouse skeleton

[Brock Samson]

about a third of a joint, in the map pocket, driver's side... 

[TheGhost]

about a third of a joint, in the map pocket, driver's side... 

Stuff you left in your car and forgot about doesn't count, strat.

[NorwayCharger]

I found my mobilephone that i have reported stolen 4 weeks prior to finaly getting started to rip out the interior
I was in the car making a list of stuff that was good/bad and things that i would have to buy new, then i must have droped my phone under the seats..
Then i found a lot of RUST..

[purple70rt]

Here are couple of things in my 70 plymouth.  I had the car in high school 15 years ago and just recently got it back.  Car never had a headliner in it when I drove it as a teenager.  I was putting new floor pans in it last winter in it.  Was on a creeper cleaning up frame rails and looked up and seen the big "RICO" spray painted on roof.  Also found a secret compartment someone made where the driver vent housing went.  Pretty good hiding place for "RICO".  I posted this on the old site so a lot of you have probably seen this, but here are a couple of pics.

[Shakey]

The answers over here were not enough for you?   http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Test&Number=2062748&page=0&fpart=all
"We found so many things over the years it not funny".
Well what did YOU find in your LONG life of restoring cars?

Hey Charge It,

Did you know:

Many people are members here and on Moparts?

Many people post similar or the exact same questions on both sites in hopes of getting the most possible answers?

That I looked at your profile and see under the section "show last posts" you have 3 pages worth and that of the 30 on the first page, posts:

1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,19,20,24,25

were all directed at mustanghater in a negative way?

I realize that the young fellow asks some foolish questions and can't spell to save his life but has he done something to you personally?   Maybe he has and I missed it or I just didn't do enough homework, if so - carry on.

I'm not usually one to stir up shit or pick fights, and that is not what I am trying to do here, but I am one for sticking up for people when I see them being treated unfairly.   I will not stick up for someone if they are being a blatant and ignorant asshole, which he is not.

[Shakey]

I was taking out my headliner a few weeks back and found a peach pit! 

[694spdRT]

I found a cool pair of '70s Elvis sunglasses that my dad must have wore back then. 

Other things like newspaper's and magazines from way back, tools, change, etc.

I did find a crack pipe in a IROC Camaro so maybe you do need to be on drugs to own a.....oh nevermind. 

[BigBlackDodge]

Rusty razor blades and little plastic baggies (empty of course!)............... The car sat in the hood for about five years before be rescued!


BBD

[andy74]

me and a buddy were at a junk yard a few weeks ago,pulled seat out of an older caddy,he needed em for some fucked up van thing hes doing,and we found a penthouse(1990,april)and 2 pairs of womens panties-does that count?

  always find stuff in the auction cars at the dealership,found a 20 dollar winning lotto ticket last week


and mustang hatter just gets on some peoples nerves,after that but hole deal he lost respect-charge it is just the most vocal,cut him a little slack

[ipstrategies]

Condoms (in wrapper)
Shot Gun Shell
1/2 Joint
I would say the Charger was the place to party in its day.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

my buddy is currently restoring a triple green 68 charger r/t ex-cop car and there loads of bullets and shells ranging fom pistols to shot gun to m-60 shells of course ther were a few bullett holes in car as well,oh and a cb radio was strapped to inside of trunk.-MATT

p.s. this was an ex-cop car in mexico so you can figure why there is bullet holes in car

[Charge It!]

The answers over here were not enough for you?   http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Test&Number=2062748&page=0&fpart=all
"We found so many things over the years it not funny".
Well what did YOU find in your LONG life of restoring cars?

Hey Charge It,

Did you know:

Many people are members here and on Moparts?

Many people post similar or the exact same questions on both sites in hopes of getting the most possible answers?

That I looked at your profile and see under the section "show last posts" you have 3 pages worth and that of the 30 on the first page, posts:

1,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,19,20,24,25

were all directed at mustanghater in a negative way?

I realize that the young fellow asks some foolish questions and can't spell to save his life but has he done something to you personally?   Maybe he has and I missed it or I just didn't do enough homework, if so - carry on.

I'm not usually one to stir up shit or pick fights, and that is not what I am trying to do here, but I am one for sticking up for people when I see them being treated unfairly.   I will not stick up for someone if they are being a blatant and ignorant asshole, which he is not.

I apologize.

[mustanghater]

I deleted it when it. I didn't know it started till a few hours into the post.

[Shakey]

I deleted it when it. I didn't know it started till a few hours into the post.

Hey Pal,

If you want to help yourself with regards to the way you get treated around here, try proof reading your posts out loud to yourself before hitting the post button.  Ask yourself as you read it - does this sound proper and make sense!  Will others understand what I am trying to say? 

With all due respect, I have no clue as to what you are saying here.

[chargermick]

When I was installing a new turn signal switch, I couldn't get the new wiring to pull up into the steering column. After shining a light into the column, I found 3 Coors beer bottle caps. That deep into the column, I figure they must have come from the factory. I bet my car was built on a Friday.lol

[Wakko]

Nothing.  Nada.  Zip. 

[ChargerBill]

Hey Wakko...you get my email?

[psykicpup]

I deleted it when it. I didn't know it started till a few hours into the post.

Hey Pal,

If you want to help yourself with regards to the way you get treated around here, try proof reading your posts out loud to yourself before hitting the post button.   Ask yourself as you read it - does this sound proper and make sense!   Will others understand what I am trying to say?  

With all due respect, I have no clue as to what you are saying here.

I believe the young man is referring to the unfortunate picture incident on his website- which he has repeatedly apologised for- and I think may safely be dropped as a subject matter.

I have noticed, if few else have that 'mustang' is trying very hard to be less irritating so cudos to the guy

lets keep the teasing for when he deserves it yeah

PS that was very mature & gracious of you 'Charge it'

[andy74]

i am still working on not putting the f word in all my posts,ill let mustang boy off the hook until he does something else stupid-he is just a young kid who doesnt know any better

['CUDA360]

I bought a green '74 'CUDA a while back but it had lots of spoons with a white chrystal substance dried on them.
As I dug deeper I found some used up syringes

I am told that guy got out of jail recently

[Spartan]

My car I only found mouse crap in the hood pad and my headliner, and junk the factory guys didn't want to clean out before they put in the carpet. I also found a slipper of mine this summer behind the rear seat.  I lost back in 88 when I moved out of college for the summer.  Too bad I threw out the one I did have about 16 years ago

My dad's "new" 67 we found .22 shells, spent and live ones; a page out of a book in spanish, and some other unsavory stuff when we gutted it.

[Lowprofile]

Interesting things found over the years.....

A pearl Necklace [ ok, stop right there!]   in the dash of my 68 El Camino
A Craftsman Torque Wrench behind the back seat of a 68 Coronet I was parting out [I still have it!]
Womens undies [70's bloomer style] under the front seat of my 69 Charger. It was also accompanied by a used Trojan & wrapper. 
A Sun Dried Rodent of some kind in the headliner of a 70 Camaro my brother owned.
A disassembled Ford flathead in the trunk of a 69 RoadRunner I bought site unseen from a Junk yard about 15 yrs ago!  

Too much other stuff to remember!

Good Thread MH  

[JimShine]

Seems like most of us have found dead rodents. Here is the mouse I found huddled up by the dome light under the headliner of my '68. They must eat the insulation as I think only about 25% of the liner was still intact.

[HeavyFuel]

This was it.  Don't ask me what those triangle things are, I don't know.  But they were under the carpeting.

[TheGhost]

Extasy, I think...

[JimShine]

Cool key tag there Heavyfuel. I have a buddy that collects the Maine versions of those. Too bad they don't do those today.

[Charger_Croatia]

Coins
Some old Scotch tape
Black sunglasses
Few screws under the carpet

[HeavyFuel]

Cool key tag there Heavyfuel. I have a buddy that collects the Maine versions of those. Too bad they don't do those today.

Yeah, it was kinda cool to find those.  I remember my dad having one of those tags on his keyring when I was a kid. 

The set pictured was wired to the radiator support, I suppose in case the guy locked his keys in the car.  Kinda risky, I guess, since the hoods don't lock down, but those were different days then.

[ChargerBill]

This was it.   Don't ask me what those triangle things are, I don't know.   But they were under the carpeting.

HeavyFuel, where did you get the license plate key ring? I want one....

[JimShine]

Some states gave you two of those when you registered your car, in some areas they sent you these in the mail after registration. Veterans made them and they matched your plates. If you lost your keys, they were dropped in the mailbox and sent to a place in Ohio that looked you up by your plate number and returned them to you at the address of registration. Not sure when it ended, but I don't think it made it through the 70's. Most little plates I see in junk stores around here date from the 50's-60's. I have yet to find a matched set of plates and key tag plates. It would be cool to find some '68s for my Charger.

[ChgrSteve67]

A string of 5 Condoms still wraped and connected together under the ash tray between he rear seats. How they got there I'll never know and don't want to know.
An old Coke key chain.
2 of the three chrome heater fan and heater control knobs.
A bunch of missing and finger tight screws / bolts.

During my engine rebuild my uncle kept saying "Your not going to believe this"
I kept telling him that nothing suprises me about my car anymore.

The people that I saved my Charger from definately were not car people or mechanics.

[CaptMarvel]

The usual grime covered dimes from 1974 & oh, about a 3 inch corner of my build sheet under the rear carpet of my 68 R/T. The rest had returned to the environment from whence it came, being under passengers feet for 35 yrs or so...Several rusted out tools (pliers, gear puller, torque wrench etc.) in the trunk...

[HeavyFuel]

This was it.   Don't ask me what those triangle things are, I don't know.   But they were under the carpeting.

HeavyFuel, where did you get the license plate key ring? I want one....

That is pure vintage late sixties, baby!  I think that some insurance companies sent them out as promos with your insurance notices, with your actual license number on the little tag.  The tag has a statement on the back about if the keys are found, drop them in the nearest mailbox, postage guaranteed.  How the post office found the rightfull owner of the lost keys after that is beyond me.

And like I mentioned before, it was wired to the radiator support for about 30 years.  I just got lucky, have fun finding one now.

[The Mad Scientist]

Working on project cars I have found; four and a half mice, a couple of dollars in actual silver coins (pre 65), a farm jack, a family of raccoons living in a trunk, a nixon now button, a couple of fragments of build sheets, a fountain drink cup that I place somewhere in the mid 80's, a bag of charcoal, a chamois, a doughnut spare (in a car that doesn't take one), some old A&W drive in menus and trays, car magazines from the 60's, and other stuff that I can't remember.

Working on customer cars in shops I've seen/found/been told of...   Hidden canibus shoved in the vcr of a conversion van (they brought it in because the vcr quit working), a tampon stuck in the cage of a blower motor, a nasty looking stripper's work clothes (sequin thong and pasties), a dildo(sitting on the back seat), a tazer (rattling around in the door compartment), nude pictures (laying on the passanger side seat, and another time I found some pinned to the headliner), Hillary Duff CD's cranked loud as can be in a "macho steriod ridden tough guy's" truck, and a couple of throwing knives. 

That's all I can remember.

[4402tuff4u]

Lots of new credit card charges!!

[JimShine]

This was it.   Don't ask me what those triangle things are, I don't know.   But they were under the carpeting.

HeavyFuel, where did you get the license plate key ring? I want one....

That is pure vintage late sixties, baby!   I think that some insurance companies sent them out as promos with your insurance notices, with your actual license number on the little tag.   The tag has a statement on the back about if the keys are found, drop them in the nearest mailbox, postage guaranteed.   How the post office found the rightfull owner of the lost keys after that is beyond me.

And like I mentioned before, it was wired to the radiator support for about 30 years.   I just got lucky, have fun finding one now.

Nah, it had something to do with the Veterans. If they were insurance promos, nobody up here would have had them.

I did find a site on them:
http://www.keychaintags.com/

[HeavyFuel]

Hey Jim, right you are.  I took another look at it and it did say Disabled American Veterans on the back.