What's the strangest thing...

[El Jay]

Originally Posted by ol_skool_chevy

I found a Notice From the Japanese war in the Philippines of a Prisoner of war
for a man Named William Brown. P.F.C USA

They evidentially were able to send messages to family notifying that they were P.O.W's

Its a Treasure now
That war was the Death March of bataan in 1942.

The march, involving the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps. its said that between 6-11 thousand men died..
We'll never know if William Brown. P.F.C made it home....I'll pretend he did

OMG!

I don't know of P.F.C. Brown, or his family.
But I live about a mile off of Lone Tree Way in Antioch.

Would anybody have any kind of clue on how to research something like this?

[low'n slow]

There are several groups of survivors, supporters, etc... around the country. a quick Google search can provide lots of info. I looked yesterday and saw that at least 2 POWs named William Brown that died in prison camp.

It is a very interesting and tragic story.

[beebster]

Originally Posted by BadaSs_Cal

Under the carpet I found out the PO had cut out the hump to make transmission mounting a "through the cab deal"..lol

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dude, that is hilarious! I can picture him with a hoist and some straps,lowering that tranny down through the hole. LOL

[Longhorn321]

Originally Posted by beebster

dude, that is hilarious! I can picture him with a hoist and some straps,lowering that tranny down through the hole. LOL

I have done some clutches on Triumph Spitfires and that is the way you HAD to do it. The "tunnel" was a fiber-board piece that screwed down. There was not enough room between the frame rails to get the tranny out the bottom. It sucked working that thing under the dash!

Maybe he did it that way because he didn't have a good way to get under the truck and do it from underneath?

[Rush4x4]

I was in a junkyard this morning and found an original birth certificate with the footprints on the back from 2004.

[hchad18]

Special bondo plugs for the cab corners.

[jrdv]

A dried out snake.

[CURSED GEARS]

Found a one-hitter with some ancient weed in the corner while replacing my cab corners.

[chevy2tom]

A dollar bill, 93¢ in change,porn dvd cover(forgot the title) , a bag stuffed where the jack used to be with 2 scales & 7 crack pipes & a bunch of empty crack rock bags. I bought the truck from a tow yard in Arizona off of ebay.
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[oldblue1968chevy]

^gee that guy must've been a dealer lol^

I like this thread! I found a nice box cutte in the air filter (guy had altimers, not sure how to spell that)

[texasfunk]

i bought a 1970 cutlass recently with no title.. it is a 36000 ORIGINAL miles car, hadnt been registered since 80.it went threw a few owners and none of them had keys or tried to get into the trunk or any idea of a title so they sold it CHEAP..bought it..brought it to the shop...got the trunk open and all the paper work for the car was in the trunk..EVEN the signed title

[greenfc]

On a 69 I bought two years ago, once it was up and running I spent a couple of days chasing an intermittent, hollow sounding rattle. Finally determined it was coming from the gas tank behind the seat. After draining and pulling the tank, inside was the remains of a locking gas cap. From the looks of it, must have been banging around in there for a awful long time.

[5150.4.67]

A permit from 1975 to transport explosives......

[burkeens]

Chewing gum a couple of decades past its prime.

[kieth]

2 Large caliber bullet holes in the transmission tunnel (firewall)of the 66 gmc we are restoring right now. We welded them up yesterday, looked at the transmission but found no evidence of it being hit.

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-G...55795612_xCHrY

[67swb72klb]

bought a super cheyene in okc in 84 had a 38 under the seat

[sweet70beast]

Under the seat of my 50 3100 when I got it 11 year ago whre an unopened pack of 30 year old smokes. I forgot the name but it had a manufacture date from the early 60's.

[Vintage Windmills]

Just hauled home a truck today and theres a cat in there who's 9th life was up. Wedged between fender, cab, and door. Must have crawled in there after a critter and got stuck!

[pritch]

When I bought my Panel, I was chasing down a rattle coming from the back and I found a regulator from a 'B' tank. A 'B' tank (you plumbers will know) is a small acetylene torch tank, commonly used by plumbers for soldering copper pipes. I thought it was cool, because my old Dad was a plumber.

I recently bought a '68 long fleet that had a number of treasures under the seat.

A couple of gasket sets for a 235:





A new carter fuel pump, that looks like it was installed then removed and replaced in the box:



All wrapped up like some old Mummy, a complete set of extra fan belts:



And a piece:



OK, it's just a BB gun, but still.

As for all the bullet holes, used to be that a .22 shell was just the right size for an emergency spare fuse. Of course, if the short that blew the fuse was bad enough, the .22 would heat up enough to cook off!

[geunther]

Found this under the little foam strip that goes under the fuel tank. Could have came from anywhere but from where it was found I picture it coming from some final assembly plant tool.