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that was what shook out of my fuel tank sunday morning. First I laughed, then I decided I needed a f**king beer, at 8am. Then after ethanol therapy, I looked inside with a flash light, there was another mouse body in there that I had to fish out with a coat hanger... it was like I was giving the car an abortion. That required the wrest of the 6 pack. |
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Location: North Australia | A mate of mine here in Australia in the 70's was removing parts from a wrecked Rambler Matador in a yard he was working at and he found part of the drivers foot in a tennis shoe up under the drivers side dash. He still used the high performance engine and other parts from that car to upgrade his own Matador.
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Location: Under the X in Texas | I had my "field find" 300C convertible in remote warehouse storage for most of two decades. When I picked it up found a cat had apparently crawled into the passenger footwell many years ago and died of starvation as I found little more than skeleton. Prompt burial. |
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Location: Montreal, Canada | This was under the back seat of one of my 1958 Dodges:
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Location: Williams California | I went to the Sparks, Nevada Pick-N-Pull yard when they first opened, there were a few older cars then, I jimmied the trunk lid open on a '56 Buick, and the entire trunk was FULL of loose charcoal briquettes.
Not sure why, maybe someone had planned a Car-B-Que.
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | EWWW!
Well, I've found lots of dead mice, and mouse nests, in many, many cars. And rats nests, in some I've hauled back from Saskatchewan...
I have a '59 Chrysler here, with a home made tie rod end on it...I'm not sure how they got any kind of alignment. |
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Location: California | Years ago I got a 57 fireflite back on the road after sitting for a few decades. The cooling system was full of Beatles. Had to flush it several times but eventually got it clean. |
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Location: Houston | I've found lots of dead vermin. Probably the weirdest was a 66 Fury I dragged home for parts. It had a nice hood....but the underbracing was FULL of acorns. I guess some squirrel had decided it was a good place to store them. It took me many hours to get them all out, I even had to drill a couple 1" holes in order to be able to get them all out. |
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Location: NorCal |
I pulled the intake manifold off of a '65 Dart 273 and found a putty knife lying in the valley. |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | I bought a couple cars from a guy in Virginia, sight unseen. We arrived at dusk and anxious to check out what I bought, he said go ahead but take a stick, walk slowly and make noise. He said because copperheads love to live in old abandoned cars. I made my way towards one, doing as instructed and feeling a little apprehensive, opened the hood and as I got it up, part of the hood insulation fell done! Scared the hell out of me!
I got the cars home and as I disassembled one I found two full size snake skins under the back seat!
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Location: Chicago | Ha! I parted a '61 Windsor in Northern Wisconsin in the early 90's, found a full snakeskin up in the dash.
Bought a '61 New Yorker 2 door from a junker on the edge of downtown Chicago mid-90s - there were LIVE rats in it. The homeless guy that had been sleeping in it was already gone.
Lastest aquisiition - G convert last year - had a pile of raccoon fur and bones in it.
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Location: Indiana | Paul Hettick - 2015-08-17 3:35 PM
The cooling system was full of Beatles.
Lennon or McCartney?
Most wrong thing I've ever found was a small tin can of miscellaneous spare nuts and bolts...
Each and every one of them was METRIC and there ain't a metric nut or bolt ANYWHERE on my American Classic... |
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Location: Alaska | This was not a forward look but I was looking at a 64 Barracuda in 1969 thinking of buying it, opened the hood and someone had put a small block cheevy and trans. in it. I walked away fast! |
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Location: Indiana |
Yeah, dad's '31 Model A Ford Victoria has a Chevy 350 in it, I've never understood that but I can't say as I understand the fascination with Model A's either...
oh, my very first entry into Classic Car ownership was very nearly a '56 Ford Crown Vic - and it had a Chevy 350 dropped into it also!...
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Location: Florida | Bought a rusty '59 Windsor a few years ago - it was home to two mice, a live rat and one live snake. The floors had been replaced with plywood, and served as a home to an active colony of termite ants. And it had a plant growing out of one rear fender.
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Location: Hickory, NC | All I ever find are dead vermin and garbage...
Once I was in a junkyard and spotted a '56 Chrysler. I told the other guys with me that there oughta be a hemi under the hood. One guy said that there wouldn't be. They didn't have hemis that early. Well a bet was made so I walked over to the hood and pounded it a couple times. That usually makes furry friends scatter out the bottom. No sign of life so I pulled the hood open and a giant black cat leaped at my face! I laid into cussin as I jumped back. Everyone got a good laugh and I got my money. The hemi was still in the car...
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| Bought a 1970 Boss 302 off the internet sight unseen.....excited to do a full restoration so worked on it for about a year...stripping paint and so on...rebuilt the motor, trans etc...while stripping the trunk I noticed there was no spare tire canister holder which all boss 302s have in 1970..., the car was originally Calypso Coral.....but when stripping the trunk I kept finding grabber blue paint....which again, I thought was odd, cause it was under the factory undercoating....so then I started to check sheet metal date codes..and again not what they should be ....and the final straw to make my heart stop beating was I checked the vin plate area by the shock tower and someone switched the vin area (not very well I might add...with a Boss 302 vin tag...so needless to say, my $80k Boss that I did a complete resto on turned out to be a 428 CJ Drag Pack car...which these days is worth more then a B2 done correctly....
Moral of the story on these high end cars....gotta beat the pavement and make sure they are legit...was about a $40k mistake on my part!!! |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | I have a photo at home of a 1960 Chrysler Windsor with a Chevrolet straight six and powerglide transmission. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Not mine, but I saved this photo of a 1960 Chrysler Windsor with what looks to be a straight 6 engine installed....... It was on Ebay many years ago. Can anyone ID the engine? Not a slant six either. Wonder what tranny was hooked up to it.
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | As far as wrong on my own car, when I bought the Saratoga:
The oil gauge was dead.
The ammeter gauge worked.
The fuel gauge face had been installed over top of the temp gauge and vice-versa, with the fuel gauge wire then hooked up to the temp gauge.
It was obviously a DIY repair from many years ago before the advent of easily found NOS parts. Looking at the Astra-Dome you will understand what they did to make a working fuel gauge from a temp gauge.
The photo below is of a correct setup. The gauges themselves are not interchangeable from left to right but the faces just slide off, and that's what had been done. Since the fuel and temp gauges work in the same manner, it was a relatively easy fix..... at the time..... I guess it was more important to have a fuel gauge than a temp gauge. The gauges in my car now are all correct and functioning.
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Location: Some Island called Prince Edward | How about "The most wrong piece of info you've ever found out about your old car"? I had a 54 Chevy that I bought off a guy in Michigan. I was told it was a barn find: original paint all the typical "patina" etc. It also had a bunch of dents on the roof. Seller stated kids played on it all the time. Anyway, I get it home and get it running. I post pics of it on one of the more popular old car forums and I get a PM from a guy who said he used to own it. Sure enough he sent me a photo of the car when he had it. When I asked him for info on it being a barn find he says "Uh, It wasn't in a barn. I bought it from an estate sale. Guy that had it climbed up on the roof of the car and hung himself from the rafters of his garage. All the dents are from the firefighters climbing on the car to cut him down. Needless to say I'd get a little bit weirded out when working on it by myself at 2 in the morning!
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Location: northern germany | got a new company car and i found in it: french engineering!!!!!!!!!!! well okay, its a citroen, but wth? one could think a 2014 car should be an improvement of cars from 30 years ago?! this is ABSOLUTELY the W-O-R-S-T car i have ever driven in 30 years! they managed to make things so wrong and annoying, you didn't even think about before!!! this is a bad joke! i can't believe this. i may start a thread about that pos in the nether region. |
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| like top gear says then, "we'll tell if your car is good, or french"
That said... on the bike ride home there is a DS for sale. It's been there for a few months.... I've attempted suicide before, I can admit to that. Choosing to buy that DS could well play out to be an even worse decision. |
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Location: Alaska | Ian, the pic you posted looks like a 235 cheevy 6 but missing parts, water pump intake & exhaust etc. |
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