My car is/was a mess when I first got it, and it had some garbage in the back that I had to sort out.  When I got to the accessory box behind the passenger seat, I found a bowling ball...  Thought that was strange.  Too bad it didn't fit. 

  Um, about 20 lbs. of Bondo?

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I guess this counts, it wasnt in a car but in an amplfier I bought about 10 years ago...  I bought a 1965 Fender Twin amp that was part of a moving sale. It was a basket case, sitting in damp storage for what I thought was about 20 years. I figured the cabinet and hardware was still good and I paid 75.00 for it. The electronics were shot and 75.00 was a fair price. As im tearing the amp down, I got to the reverb tank. The reverb tank is a metal recatangle about 18x4x2 inches. It sits in a pouch in the bottom of the amp, the back of the amp is open so you just reach in. Under this reverb tank I found a wallet. It had an expired licence from 1971, a registration for a Ford, an expired credit card and a military i-d and about 7 bucks. I looked up the owner and I found the same name, in the same town at a different address.  I made a call and after I told them who I was  I said "did anyone lose a wallet about 30 years ago?  Long story short, the amp blew on a gig, a friend bought it because it woulda been about 35.00 to fix and a used one was about 75.00. The owner put his wallet in the back of his amp at gigs. When he asked his friend if the wallet was in the amp, he said no because he didnt move the reverb tank. The wallet and the owner were reunited..    KeBo2008-11-03 09:08:37

Kevin, what aboo the kewl sign you found under the carpet of one of yours recently? "Not built by Scabs"??!
I found some neat stuff under the carpet of my '74 when I first got it. Some sanding discs used by the St. Louis assy plant, for one...with GM part numbers on them!
I'm glad I didn't find a bowling ball in there, that's fer sure! I might expect that with the '85, since it was built in Bowling Green...

(sorry...it's the medications talkin...)

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Mouse nest in the heating duct, mouse turds, alot of corn dust. This wasn't in it, but there was a tractor tire leaning on it! bcliff2008-11-03 11:13:21

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Three dead mice up in front of the glove compartment.

I found this stow-a-way in the inner fender along with a lot of leaves:

The strangest thing I have found in my vette:

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An empty packet of heroin......Definately NOT mine!!!

I found a ripped up $5.00 bill.  Ten15, what was that?

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I found a couple of bottles of lead additive, a proof of car insurance statement (previous owner's name & address on it), a magnetic "hide a key" container, some different size screws, a sony power booster in the glove box thing behind the passenger seat along with the jack & lug wrench and the build sheet.              

Yeah - Ten15, what the heck was that thing?

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The strangest thing I have found in my vette:WAS ME
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I bet that ain't no bull!!!!


[QUOTE=Gribble123] An empty packet of heroin......Definitely NOT mine!!!

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Wow....!!

[QUOTE=Ten15] My guess would be a squirrel, but it could be a chupacabra.
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OR maybe a cthulhu???    

                                       

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Mouse nest with a hardened mouse insode the e-brake handle housing! Hard lil feller!!

I got my 80 in 83 so nothing to strange, all service records though, that was nice documentation to keep.

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Ex-girlfriend in the passenger seat?

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Dukakis for President 88 & Bentsen  Vice President 88 button.  Can anyone top that?

In working on my car i found that when my driverside fender was sanded down that it was glued in 9 different spots and my frame was bent by the front bumper but hidden with fiberglass.

Alright Glen, I give up. What is that box??

My Granddaughter Zoe after she climbed up the side of my freshly painted door.

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My cousin owend the car before me, he always said there was a metal like rattle on the right side of the car but he could never find it. He had the car since 1975. When I was working on the suspension I was laying on my back waiting for my buddy to get a wrench for me and was just kind of looking around, I looked at the frame and in one of the cut outs I seen something black, after about 5 min of digging I pulled out the rattle that has haunted the car, a screwdriver. Not as exciting as the bowling ball or that brown crud, but it does have a history.

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I found trailer hitch brackets on the rear end. Not my tail.

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Imma thinking it had more to do with momentum...as the car swerved, the weight would bump to the side. I doubt it really had much effect, anyway...prolly just another one of those JC Whitney miracle cures!

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the spare tire had been removed and a custom  made frame mount trailer hitch was in its place.  It was'nt factory but it was nicely done

When I bought the '76 vette it was fairly well documented - purchase order, salesman business card, build plate, warranty books on tires and batteries, knock outs from the keys, registration of all previous owners, and two owner's manuals.  But the one item I did not expect was a plastic replica of the car in it's original box and wrapped in what appears to be the original tissue paper.  Come to find out this was a gift item from the dealer on corvettes he sold at the time.