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08-24-2005, 09:45 PM | #1 |
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Found something really cool under the hood of my truck!
I was taping up loose wires that were hanging around in the engine compartment when I saw this huge clump of old electrical tape about four inches from the bulkhead connector on the firewall. I thought that was weird, and when I started unwrapping it I found some cool stuff. There was an old piece of legal pad paper with a name and a phone number taped over the wires with scotch tape, and when I was about to throw the elec. tape away I saw something shining in it and looked, and it was one of the original key knockouts! I just thought that was cool that I found that stuff. Anybody find weird things like that in, or on? their trucks?
EDIT Got the pic uploaded. The key wasn't wrapped in the tape, I just put it in the pic because that's where the knockout came from.
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08-24-2005, 10:04 PM | #2 |
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Hey that's pretty cool!
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08-24-2005, 10:05 PM | #3 |
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I found the original build list stuffed under the springs on the back of my bench seat. It was torn up, but I can still read everything on it.
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08-24-2005, 10:06 PM | #4 |
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All I ever found was rust.
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08-24-2005, 10:17 PM | #5 |
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I found 3 or 4 roaches in the azz tray in the old longhorn,does that count? didnt try smokin them tho, they looked a little petrified! L
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08-25-2005, 09:05 AM | #6 | |
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08-24-2005, 10:23 PM | #7 |
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I found a condom with a receipt in a bag. The receipt was dated from 1975 or 1976. I can't remember exactly anymore. Was that kewl or just odd?
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08-25-2005, 12:30 AM | #9 |
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I have found a lot of stuff in the nooks and crannies of my old cars... especially in the bottoms of the doors and behind the side panels. I think that the "archeological dig" aspect of restoring old cars is a lot of the fun, the stuff you find, the way the parts are worn from use, etc...
You'll think I'm nucking futs, but I truly believe that old cars and even the parts you put on them carry a sort of karma along with them. I always wonder where the part has been and if it's carrying good karma or not.... One of the funnier stories happened recently... I bought a bucket seat to replace the driver’s side in my blazer that was bent back real bad. When I took it apart to recover it, I discovered that the foam had been dug out behind the plastic seat back.... kind'a like a 'stash' spot. I told the wife "I think this seat has been across the border to Mexico a few times". She shrugged and gave me the usual "yea right". Later that evening when I was yanking the nasty old cover off of it I heard something metal drop out of the seat onto the garage floor... looking down, there was a Mexican 5 peso coin!
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08-27-2005, 09:21 AM | #11 | |
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I wonder what the warrenty is on a condom? Does it have a shelf life(or wallet life)?
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08-24-2005, 10:38 PM | #12 |
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I bought my K10 from the owner of a jewelry store. When I was digging the seatbelts out from under the seat for my drive home, I found a new Pulsar ladies watch new in the box. My wife still wears it everyday!
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08-24-2005, 10:43 PM | #13 |
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Does a golf ball count for anything???
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08-24-2005, 10:50 PM | #14 |
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I found a penny from 1897. I have it around here somewhere.
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08-24-2005, 10:52 PM | #15 |
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I did find a dime bag of weed in the old GMC...hence the name of the PO..the dope smokin old man.
Well.... actually, I didn't find it....the MP drug dogs found it. Man...I came REAL close to getting in some DEEP do do. |
08-24-2005, 10:54 PM | #16 |
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I found a dollar coin when I got my truck in the ash tray
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08-25-2005, 01:44 AM | #17 | |
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Okay, I give up. How did you get your truck in the ashtray?
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08-25-2005, 05:30 AM | #18 | |
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08-25-2005, 07:02 AM | #19 |
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1 live mouse and a handful of shotgun shells in the cab...not sure if the PO was a mouse hunter or not?
The bed had about a yard of topsoil, 1 living tree, and a storm door in it.
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08-25-2005, 08:31 PM | #20 | |
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10-28-2005, 04:50 PM | #22 | |
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Re: Found something really cool under the hood of my truck!
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08-24-2005, 10:58 PM | #23 |
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lol. i hope i find something cool in mine when i start taking stuff out of the cab. we'll see.
the condoms - can't believe it, that's...disturbing to think how many people had sex in the seat you drive in Wish I had an original key for my truc
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08-24-2005, 11:09 PM | #24 |
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All kidding aside, when I pulled the carpet there was a strange wire going through the floor about center of drivers floorboard. Turned out to be a PA horn, perhaps for a 2-way radio. The truck was construction equipment yellow, so maybe a state or county rig, hence the bull horn!
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08-24-2005, 11:12 PM | #25 |
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Excuse me, it is mounted under the floor, pointed straight down.
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