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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Beeville, Texas
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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.
![]() 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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RJD 1984 Chevrolet C30 welding truck 454/SM465 1977 GMC C15 pickup 350/TH350 1970 Chevrolet C20 pickup 350/TH400 1970 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 454/TH350 1969 GMC 8500 478M V6/5 spd winch truck Last edited by Robert1970C20rstbukt; 08-24-2005 at 11:04 PM. |
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Hey that's pretty cool!
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Location: CA
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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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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: South Mississippi
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All I ever found was rust.
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Location: rock island,il,usa
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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!
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Martinsburg, WV
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You been messin' around in my truck dude? ![]()
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Lexington, KY
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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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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Evergreen, CO
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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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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: NW ARKANSAS
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Finding it would be "kewl".Using it would be 'odd"! ![]() |
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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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WTB this ad
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Lafayette Georgia
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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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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Does a golf ball count for anything???
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Cheney, KS
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I found a penny from 1897. I have it around here somewhere.
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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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. |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austin, Tx.
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I found a dollar coin when I got my truck in the ash tray
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Location: Magnolia, Texas
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Okay, I give up. How did you get your truck in the ashtray?
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its all about the +6 inches
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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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Re: Found something really cool under the hood of my truck!
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Atlanta
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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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#24 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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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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Excuse me, it is mounted under the floor, pointed straight down.
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