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[Rick]

I've a feeling this has been discussed some time ago, but have you ever found anything interesting in your classic - say under the seats, under the boot floor, or say dropped down behind a door trim?

RJ
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[kevin2306]

| Found this tucked away in the glove box






Kev

[Rootes75]

I've got a 55 Minx waiting to be worked on, when I bought her we found all manner of small bits and pieces, Woodbine packets and small receipts etc. Very interesting small pieces.

[Ashley]

Well it's a find in a classic of sorts.

A bit like rummaging in a dustbin bag in the corner of your garage.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2704017/Surgeons-discover-5-inch-sex-toy-womans-vagina-10-YEARS.html

[BigJohn]

Some years ago I found a large amount of rat crap under the back seat of a pre war Chrysler.............

[Riley Blue]

I once hired an aircooled VW camper for a week. In one of the cupboards I found half full bottles of whisky and gin and a packet of dog biscuits.
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1963 Riley 1.5
1965 Riley 1.5

[colwyn500]

40 year old fag ends

[colwyn500]

40 year old fag ends

[D4B]

I found a menacing looking (dead) spider in my Aussie import Splitscreen VW campervan....

And in one of the fuel tanks of my Peugeot D4B van:

[ka]

Many years ago I worked in a body shop, welding and the like. In came a Mk1 escort to have a rear wheel arch fitted (old one rusted through following accident damage).
As usual, open boot, good look at the insides, and recognise just how much sealant Ford uses to bung up the holes, remove rear seat, off we go.
So busy cutting away, flare edges, grinding, new arch gripped in place, welding away, stopped by my spotters shouts.
After the bucket of water was thrown into the wheel arch area, we took the interior trim off, and found a tin of new potatoes, wrapped in the charred remains of a February, 1969 newspaper. So if the Ford worker wonders where his shopping went, I have found it!
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KA

Better three than four.

[Uncle Alec]

I see your AA papers, old sweets, fag ends, and various consumer products, and raise them by:

[Richard H]

6d (1966) under the Somerset's back seat.

Circa 1957 ticket for Lymington toll bridge in Hampshire (cost either 3d or 6d IIRC) in the glovebox in my dad's Austin 7 Ruby.

1970's British Leyland wing badge (the type fitted to Landcrabs and Maxis), complete with Black Tulip overspray on it, found inside the drivers seat of my A35!
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[mikeC]

I think the best find I made was in an early Herald Coupe, which I had bought for a nominal sum because there was no id or paperwork with it. The glove box was locked, but by fiddling about with a selection of keys I had, I managed to open it, revealing the original buff logbook, service record and a detailed hand-written log of everything spent on the car - win! win! win!

[OuBallie]

[Landy Des]

I bought a 1968 Cortina 1600 GT back in the late 90's and on taking out the rear seats I found a circa early 70's leather jacket, complete with waist belt and big round collar and an unopened, well past the sell by date "packet of three"

I wore the jacket from then on as a garage jacket until it fell apart, but decided it best not to use the other find....