Previous Owner Stupidity

[toddtheodd]

Ok y'all.
What all have you found on your 67-72 trucks that the previous owners did that makes you want to track them down and slap them so hard it makes their underwear twist around backwards on them.

For me:

1) Soda can tabs and pennies in the fuse box. I still don't know why they used them, because when I replaced them with actual fuses, none blew...

2) PO had put a CB radio in where the radio was supposed to go. Dash is now cut to accept radio. Not too big a deal, BUT! There is now a hole in the top of my cab towards the back in the middle where the antenna used to be. If I knew how to weld, I would plug it. BUT WAIT... THERE'S MORE! Instead of running fresh wire up to the antenna, he cut the dome light wire, and used it. After I reconnected the wire both under the door trim, and behind the dome light, it started to work.

3) Letting an idiot at Pep-boys (or wherever) tell him what temp sending unit he was supposed to have. I bet he thought the gauge was broken. After arguing with a guy at an O'Reillys , I went through about 15 different ones at that O'Reillys, with an LMC catalog laying next to me, until I found one that "looked" right. After putting it in BOOM... gauge worked just fine. (On a side note, Autozone now lists 2 different ones. One for the idiot light, and one for the gauge)

4) I kept getting pulled over for License Plate lights not being on. When I finally lay down underneath the truck to figure it out, the PO had cut the wires up to use them for a trailer light harness...

And that's just SO FAR on my 72 c-10. You don't even WANT to hear about the crazy stuff I found on my 70 Chevelle that caused me to blow the motor.