While disassembling my '69, I found a matchbox car that had worked its way all the to the back of inside the drivers rocker. I could see the matchbox car while underneath my car through the square hole in the rocker where the rubber flapper goes. The car wouldn’t fit through the hole so the only way I could get it out was to run a long vacuum hose from the front of the car where I had removed the firewall. I was hoping it was an old Camaro but it turned out to be a ’73 Mustang “Piston Popper”. Yea, its not that interesting but I thought it may be interesting to hear of anyone else that had found long lost items when removing parts from your car, other than cigarette butts and beer caps under the seats. ;) Anyone?

While cleaning out my car to Por-15 the floors I found an old pocket knife and a receipt for a lb. of ham from a Safeway in Montana from 1985. I thought the receipt was neat because I bought the car in Texas. Someone had some good times on the road before I got the car.

The person I bought my car from LOVED Sunflower Seeds. How do I know? The shells were all over the inside of the car. I kept cleaning them up and they kept reappearing. Shells were in the bottom of the seats and under the carpet. I flipped the seats upside down and vaccumed the seeds out and installed new carpet. Problem Solved.

The only thing I have found so far is a pack of Zig Zags under the carpet. But I have a feeling I will find more when the time comes to take it apart :)

When cutting the quarter off I found between the quarter and the drop off panel a toy truck, a pair of baby socks, a shotgun shell, a little plastic fish off a roll of fishing line, and a carbruator gasket. As I reserched the car and was talking to the second owner, I found he was an outdoorsman with a young son and a baby girl when he had it.

I found what seemed like a enough bobbypins to fill a coffee can. the other neat thing I found was a Texas longhorn figurene in the heater box which I was cool because thats where the car came fom.

Bag of herb under the dash.

Red camaro, my wife found 50 bux.....and a pair of panties. unfortunately, the werent mine. We thought it was funny.
55 chevy was a prince albert snuff can full. and rollin papers.
my 41 was an antique clock and a set of Coke bottles from the late 20's early 30's.

On the subject of finding unusual stuff...I was burying a house one time in OKLA using a D7H Caterpillar and dugup/found an Astin-Martin car that was AT LEAST A 52-56 model looked like a mini-vette. was in pretty good shape. the old man showed up that owned the place and told me to mash it with the dozer. OOF. If the man paying you $175 an hour says mash, you mash. I know where theres a v-12/v-16 DEUSENBERG? car and engine not crushed tho....:D

Zeb, I think you better check that car a little closer. Those '73 Mustang "Piston Poppers" may be parasites. I hope your car isn't infested.....and:confused: turn into a Mustang!!!!:angry:

The only thing I found was a bird nest in the dash of my '67.

Russell

Mice! :beers::beers:

I have found a big black hole in mine that keeps sucking money into it... :yes:

Black eye liner pencil? In my orginal car? My girlfriend / wife then was blonde. Prolly someone from the factory putting junk down the defroster tube to rattle, they were doing that back then ya know.

Just found a spare set of orginal 67 keys with fob under the carpet of the convertible--some previous owner hid is his extra keys there...thanks for the extra set..

Also found a 1955 and 1960 penny there too

I found a spare key screwed to the radiator support above the headlight.

well i havent found anything unusual while taking apart a car(only 18), but my dad found a penny under the carpet dated the same as the car, thought that was cool. he use to paint cars and stripped a camaro and found grease pencil writing on the body that was underneath the pain and it was readable that the tail panel was to be painted black.

I have found a big black hole in mine that keeps sucking money into it... :yes:

Wow, we must have twin cars.

In the 69 I found a small round plastic container with 3 condoms in it and a 1969 dollar bill. Found this stuff in 1988


Scott

Edit double post

In the glovebox, there were some interesting items from my family's past. Haven't pulled the interior out of my Camaro yet, but I found some loose change and a razor blade under the backseat of my Impala.

The guys with ex-cop Caprices find all kinds of interesting things in their cars.

found a huge ball of christmas wrapping paper in the quarter panel in my roadrunner lol.

Found a watch inside the defroster vent, wound it up and it still worked.

Those are some interesting items found so far.. Guess after 40 or so years, were sure to find some hidden treasures.

Congrats on the few that have actually found money, I'm unfortunately with the others that have the black hole, or rust holes sucking away all available funds/credit. :yes:

I bought a 68 vette in 1969 and found a diamond ring behind front seat. I have it on right now!

69 chevelle inner quarter panel, written in black body sealant, "blank you".................... This could only have been done at the factory. Possibly a positive greeting used during those days, for co-workers, or possibly a time capsule thing for future generations to look back and fondly remember the good old days of precise, precision craftmanship, from the always happy at work American car builder................................See the USA in your "blanking" Chevrolet.......

found small, cheap, imitation gold, man's ring in defroster and several car cruise placques under the back seat from southern Calif. :)

Take a look at this old thread. Some interesting things have been found.

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=87879

I found an empty beer can in the drivers air vent by your left knee.
Also found an interesting book of matches from a strip/dance club in Cali.

Apparently my Camaro has seen some good times!

about 30 false fingernails (used) and strands of various womens' hair under the back seat.

Also, a never installed gas door behind the driver's kick panel.

A comb and a crappy weld job on floor pans.

When I was in high school I had a Girlfriend who lost two or three fingernails in the backseat of my car every Saturday night. Oh them were the days!

In the 80's my uncle was restoring a car and under the front seat was a pay stub from a movie theater with the late Johnny Carson's name on it. It turned out to be his fathers old car.

A few days after cutting out the floor of my 68, I found two .25 cal bullets on the floor of the garage. Oh and did I mention I used a torch to cut it out. One was intact unfired, and the second, i found a split casing, and a copper jacket bullet with lead melting out, in two separate spots. Thought the loud pop i had heard was just the torch acting up.

My moms 69' camaro that I'm fixing..
I found all sorts of things, maps, paperwork, baby socks, unknown keys, random tires, hand writtin directions, some kind of radio station card, wood golf clubs, a puse, and still finding more.. I guess when things sit around for 15 years things just become part of them.

When I was in High School my 67 always had a problem rolling down the back windows.

When I was replacing the rear panels, I found soup cans in the window mech.

A disgruntled assembly line worker I suppose.

I found some rust in the trunk of my 69 but that's about it.

I found a scrap of paper with a partial address that lead me to a past owner, once I found him, I hoped he could tell me more Re: history but had nothing.
The bad news I am sure I found the build sheet , but I just bought the car , just found this site and just finished the first repair (fuel sending unit) I didnt know what it was I thought it was from some paint I bought and threw it out , Can you belive it. Knowing now what I had, just makes me sick I think about it every day.

Found an old Chevron gas receipt in my camaro with my dads name on it-

Found a kitten in a parts car I had one time-

Found some legal papers and 9mm ammunition in the trunk side panel of a 95 impala police car I bought

Found some 12 ga shotgun shells, condoms and Marlboro lights under the console of a 93 tahoe I bought from the owners dad after he left for college:yes:

Very long, I am bored at work today:
Under the back seat I found a $45 check from Allstate. It was a check for a claim on the car. I figured I would find the owner and gain some valuable history on the car. I did an internet search on the name of the person on the check it was made out to. The good thing is that I knew the car spent most of its life in North Carolina. First call was the correct person. I explained to the gentleman the reason for my call. Of course he was hesitant at first but after describing some items about the car that only me and him would have known he opened up. He was shocked that their is still some honest people left in the world and was great full. He gave me his address and I promised him I would send the check to him, I did. As far as valuable information, unfortunately he didn't have any. He owned the car for about 5 years, didn't do anything to it, it mostly sat so that is why he sold it. Couldn't give me any info on who he bought it from, to long ago and didn't really know the guy. I bought it from the guy he sold it to and he didn’t do anything with it
either.
PS
The check was for a broken windshield, a baseball hit it.

Dirt dobbers nests under the dash, bird seed, pens in the dash. Interior was in great condition believe it or not. Oh and a bunch of spair parts in the trun, but that was expected :D

Its funny that this thread started out about a machbox car. Back in 94' I had my 68 apart for paint, and it was sitting in the garage while I was working on an assortment of items pertaining to my car and all the while I had my two year old daughter out there with me, and she too, had a bunch of hotwheels, and matchbox cars. I was wonderin where all the cars were dissapearing to. Well, recently when I have been taking my 68 apart again for my restoration I have been finding hotwheels and matchbox cars inside my fenders, rear quarters and such. now my daughter is fifteen years old and I tried to return thos toy cars to her, but she is only interested in one car------my 68!, Go figure!.........007

I found a pair of drive in ticket stubs under the back seat. They were from the Lincoln Drive In, Buena Park, Ca. They date to the early 70's. The car had a dealer emblem from Jim Rathmann Chev, Melborne Fl. on the back.

It seems unlikely that many cars from the era made it from one side of the country to the other that early in their existance.

I found a bunch of metal that was eat up by rust that loves to eat money as well. :)

In the camaro, have found an old box of matches and a pack of matches from a hotel with a girl's name and number on it.
While restoring the Cuda, pulled the windshield and found a WWII picture taken in Germany! I think one of the persons in the picture is the 'old man' I bought the car from. I never ended up calling him to let him know I had found it. When I bought the car, he was starting to get Alzhiemer's anyhow, so he most likely would not have remembered.

Working on my barn find. I found a crusty pair of panties, (got my needle nose pliers out) under the rear seat. Then I found my BROADCAST sheet about 80% readable on top of the tank. The following week I found the POP jammed into the kickpanel vent..Now I know it's a '69 RS/SS

It wasn't in my camaro but in my 62 c20 truck I found grain elevator tickets dated 1965 and other farm related letters with dates about the same year.
Bob

When pulling out the old carpet, I found some ticket stubs from the San Francisco Speedway from way back. Not sure when San Francisco had a speedway though.

A purple t-shirt and a pair of size 5 stilletto's.

Found a George Wallace for President button under the carpet of my 68 vert. Former Mississippi car.

A gang of squirrels stashed over 250 walnuts in my convertible body shell one fall- there are still some left in the rockers after many years of trying to get them all out. Tree rats, indeed!

Found a hash pipe under the console of my old '81 Z. Found a few mice here and there after winter storage. Quite a few dollars worth of change but nothing interesting really.

I had two uncles that owned a NAPA store years ago. One guy came in with a baby rattle and a note attached "I bet it took you a long time to find this rattle!" I can't remember the car, but I do know it was welded inside two panels. A line worker would have been the only one to put it in there. I also heard stories of finding tools inside of panels.

my friend Howard found a 1/2" impact gun in a finder odd thing about it ..it only gos clockwise. I only find trash:(

Larry

My car doesn't have enough interior or body panels to find anything in! :)

I just found a bunch of stuff last week... I ripped out the carpet and found a bunch of coins, a necklace pendant with "75" on it (it's a 69 Camaro???), and some plane tickets with someone's name... maybe the original owner :thumbsup:

Also found the skelaton of a dead mouse in the heater core, which was perfect because it was right before lunch and I need to lose weight anyway.

I found about $3 in change so that will help offset the cost of the rebuild!:thumbsup: However while replacing my door panels this weekend, I saw what appeared to be a build sheet in the rear drivers side window access holes. After cutting and sraping my arms up and trying to surgically remove the document, I was dissappointed to find out it was a wadded up section of the classifieds. :sad:

Was the build sheet find from a Los Angeles Car?

I had two uncles that owned a NAPA store years ago. One guy came in with a baby rattle and a note attached "I bet it took you a long time to find this rattle!" I can't remember the car, but I do know it was welded inside two panels. A line worker would have been the only one to put it in there. I also heard stories of finding tools inside of panels.

I've heard some stories like this in the past and I always wondered if they were true or were 'urban folktales'. If the stories really are true, then the American auto industry deserves the predicament it is in right now. And that's coming from a die-hard Chevy man!

I've heard some stories like this in the past and I always wondered if they were true or were 'urban folktales'. If the stories really are true, then the American auto industry deserves the predicament it is in right now. And that's coming from a die-hard Chevy man!

I did something like this but it was in something I made in my house saying when I did it and thanked them for F***ing it up because that was the only way the would find it.

My car doesn't have enough interior or body panels to find anything in! :)

Ditto that here :)

Under the cowl panel of my '69 I just found a small plastic silver charm with a 4 leaf clover on it, and a faded note that said something along the lines of
Bill,
Call me when you get home from C U R.
I ne d to talk to y .
L v ,
T a


So either a previous owner had the same name as me, or my girlfriend in highschool, Tina, left the note on my car and it slipped through the cowl vents before I read it. I hope whatever she needed wasn't important. :D As for the little 4 leaf clover charm, that feels like a good omen, I think I'll leave it where I found it.

Unfortunately, the thing I was looking for when I pulled the cowl off - the hidden vin - was not there. :(

I know this is an old thread but I thought you all might like to see what I pulled out of the defrost duct when I removed it from mt 68 SS/RS today.


http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o70/x77d80/HPIM3152.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o70/x77d80/HPIM3151.jpg


I have owned the car almost 30 years & I have never seen it before, so I know it is at least that old. :)

When I first started to dismantle my 69 Camaro coupe back in 1996, I found a check the original owner had written out but never used. It fell into the defroster ducts and sat there ever since. I saved it in my paperwork folder for the car. Pretty cool. It was dated 1979 I believe. I will have to check and post a picture of it....

I was starting my dissaembly and found an old girlfriends ring was her baby spoon made to one, she asked me if I ever found it would I send it to her. Well after 22 years ohh yea guess what I found under the carpet! BTW she married my cousin?

I got;
A bag of nails
$1.22 in change
1/4" Snap on spanner
a doll's head
a hair clip

Oh, and during the build I lost $XX,000 somewhere.

Taking apart 68 camao, I found 2 old lighters and a cigarette, and a movie ticket. Intresting right. Someone must have been smoking after the movies.

Having spent half my earlier years working in auto salvage yards, it would take days to list everything I've found. 2 that top the list are a ladies diamond Bulova watch that was appraised at $1000 found when I was removing the seats from A VW Rabbit & a loaded .45 auto pistol found in a Ford pickup... Having to dismantle badly wrecked vehicles at times I've also found some stuff I'd rather not think about..

in my 70 chevelle ss ( when i owned it) i was taking out the rear seat ,to reupholster it and there was the build sheet crunched into the springs, turned out the color and top were not what i had on the car, lol couldnt believe it i havent disassembled the camaro yet.

I bought a 69 Z/28 from the second owner about ten years ago that still had misc papers i nthe glove box dated back to 72. One of the papers was a reciept from ellison performance in Cincinatti Oh with what I thought was the original owner. I did a search on the internet and found five people under that name and sent letters to them all. Turnes out the name was from a friend who had that engine work done on his "a different Z/28. The swapped engines since he was getting ready to trade his car in. The friend called me and explained this and also put me in touch with the original owner who sent me pictures of the car when new as well as the POP.

Who ever reuilds my old truck will find a hand full of wrenchs and punchs down the stake pockets courtesy of my nephew. Clang rattle rattle what the h**l is that noise? NOOOOOO!!

took the carpet and padding out of my '68. found a lot of old coins from the '50's and '60s. Also found a movie ticket that costs $2.50. It was tore in half so I don't know which movie.

I just opened up the trunk for the first time and found Jimmie Hoffa :D

My 67 was bought new in huntsville AL. found a drive in theater ticket for the huntsville drive-in. IN My 67 convertable found a high school play program 1972 for fidler on the roof and rolling paper machine instructions I bet in 67 they wasn't just rolling tobaco:)

I found a gold chain with a gold and opal pendant in defrost duct of my 68.I cleaned it and wrote a card and gave it to my wife on valetines days from my car.Now she wants me spending money on the car! Bruce

I just opened up the trunk for the first time and found Jimmie Hoffa :D

So he's NOT buried in my backyard! :)

So he's NOT buried in my backyard! :)

Just parts of him.

Just parts of him.

Yes - the head, which is filled with gold teeth --- so GET DIGGING! :D

HAHAHAHA! Alright already!

I really wanted an orignial radio, the original I had was okay but could use an improvement on some of its parts. I bought another original radio from a member here to combine the two and make a good radio out of all original parts. When I recieved the radio I found that the tuning needle moved fine but when it got to the middle it would stop and the dial would not even turn. I began disassembly for parts and found wasps or hornets had built a little home out of mud back there with there fossilized remains still inside.
http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww347/bacon104/A%2067%20named%20Nicole/IMG_0372.jpg