About 4 months after I bought my GTA, I noticed a little button next to the steering wheel. I removed the drivers side kick panel only to discover a tangled, cut-up mess of amatuer (idiot) wiring for a stupid alarm. Those all got removed. However, upon further inspection, I found a set of FORD keys, including what looked like a master key, behind the radio. When I tested this "master" key on doors of FORD and MERCURY vehicles - it would only turn them from unlocked to locked. Very confusing?? Who knows what other surprises I could find in this car. If Im lucky-maybe a thirdgen master key!!

 

Got a pick of this key? I'd like to see what it looks like.

Matt

 

My personal best to date is 4.72 in change. Never found any bills but the thirdgen console is a good place for change to fall in the from the shifter and the glove box.

Weird things found so far: an orange that was so dried up it looked like a prune, many pre-historic french fries, a dead squirrel and a pair of red crotchless panties. Sill looking for the owner of those!

 

Dudes there was once a time when i was at work, and at work they had a bunch of stray cats.i came to work one time early like at 5:00 am. by the time i was going to lunch at 11:00 am and i'm talkingh about cold rainy days. i guess when i had parked my z-28 in the morning. when i went to lunch there was a cat sleeping by the serpentine belt since the radiator i near there, well by the time i turned on the car the serpentine belt caught the cat and eventually it spliced the cat in half. (gross) so i heard the noise and when i lifted my hood i saw the cat in half with guts everywhere. obviously that spiled my lunch.. lol..so later on the day i cleaned it up after everyone left work. lol...

 

Now that IS disgusting! As far as change when I bought my Camaro me and my buddies had a big joke that I actually got my car for $3,489.56 because I paid $3,500 for it and the guy left $10.44 in the ashtray for me! Don't ask me how I remember the amount....

Bruce (90RS305)

 

When I went through my car, I found a rolex, 20some dollars, about 50 fuses all around the car and the entire center console had to be removed to vacume out all cigarette ash. Im talking about so much ash you could feel it when you shifted. Oh and a bag of skittles that were still good.

 

When I bought my car, finding weed that had been lost in the car was one of my biggest fears lol. So far, none found I have found a bunch of lipstick covered cig butts, life savers melted to the carpet, sunglasses, an old parking lot stub, lots of ash, 15 cents, a stuffed lion that was to keep the spare from flopping around and the missing fuse panel cover. Oh also about 3 bottles of power steering stop leak, a funnel, 1 quart of oil and a rag. Haven't lifted the carpet up yet, going to wait till I get a roll bar put in for that hehe.

Some of the cars I see coming through the shop though omg they're terrible. I can't believe people would have a landfill in thier car! One came through with mushrooms actually growing on the floor Then there's the ones that have a bunch of empty beer cans and bags of fast food that haven't been thrown out yet. Even worse is if you have to get in one that's been sitting in the sun and you find out the windows don't roll down LOL then you say to the next guy, you can move this one in and I'll take that new truck over there Then laugh as he gags at the smell.

 

Ok here is my story, With every car that I own with exception to my Envoy i have found a used condom in each of them. I was working at a cadillac dealership and I lifted the hood on one and found a tampon under the hood, luckly it was unused. For the last one he owner must have thought that his cadillac fleetwood was hungry so he poured dog food all over the engine and the ac ducting. He was complaining of a weird noise when he turned the fan on

 

This thread rules!! Ok.. I used to change oil for a living..some people need to clean their cars out..and why do ladies always have to hug the steering wheel? One guy came in for his oil change and had some mcdonnalds bags full of trash under his hood.pop bottles..2 ltr...and some crazy stuff..but my story...I had a horizon...and the guy rewired the whole car..not just the radio but the breaklights and everything...not one wire was oem....and he did the whole car..in black wire...power, ground, speakers, lights, turn, didnt matter..every wire was black..so it took me like 3 hours to put a radio in this beast..then i pulled the carpet in the back because my tail lights kept blinking...all black wire...it was also wired for a trailer...and the one tail light was spliced into the other one so when i turned right...both lights blinked and when i turned left, none of them blinked..i loved that car though..which i had a photo to show you..

 

Talk about wiring, look at what I did,







It'll take an electronics engineer to wire up this puppy.

 

yeah, i saw those picts in your other post..thats just sick....poor car..now, just imagine if all those were black..lol..that was me..

 

i never found anything too weird in my car, just a few new bic razors scattered around the car (wtf?). i live out in the country where there's lots of critters like grasshoppers, about a week after i moved into my plave i lifted the hood to check the oil and there were THOUSANDS of dead hoppers everywhere in the engine bay. took almost 15 minutes with the garden hose to get them all out.

 

Someone report this to the moderator!!!

This thread rules!

We should have a "story" forum also. Including, but not limited to the following:

- Foods in the trunk.
- What's that under the seat?
- Kids in the back.
- Changing a tire.
- Money in pocket, and ashtray, seat, carpet, door jamb, etc.
- Where did this wire go?
- C&C (Clothing and Condoms)
- Nuts and Bolts (Dropped tools, bolts, nuts, and where they were found again)
- Animals in my car. (Dead or alive)
- Boogers.
- Darwin close calls. (Lifting the car in neutral, no hand brake. Pouring gas in the carb and setting yourself on fire, etc.)

This could be a hot topic. I have a tire changing story but it would not fit this forum of animals, boogers, and foods. Awsome thread though.

 

You forgot "back seat experience with the Mrs."

 

imagine buying an iroc from ur uncle. your little brother (me) loses a piece of paper, reaches under the seat for it. the kid pulls out your Aunt's underwear, with skidmarks, and a bra.... we threw that shiz out da window, dat is nasty.... my aunt had just got done tellin my bro how if he got mad at his parents he could just go for a ride and let it all blow away in the wind or somethin like that.... we got alot o laughs out of that one...

 

:hail: This thread is the shiz.

 

Bought my 1986 SC in the UK in 1994. The lady who owned it, (and her family) had moved their business from Stockton, CA to our East Coast (Hull) a few months earlier and had brought the car with them. Unfortunately for them (fortunately for me!) it was too wide for the roads there, so I bought it. When I was painting it red (from the original white), I found a californian driving license (with the ladies photo on, and other personal details) and insurance document and $3.44 in change behind the centre console.
I contacted the lady again and returned everything to her! She said that they had lost these things around 1991 and always wondered where they went to!
Didn't tell her I took copies though!! (For my records and history file you understand).
The $3.44 are absolutely useless to us!! Still got it 9 years on! Plus $5 in change I found under the carpet of the 91RS I bought in 2002. Both cars still going strong. The SC has done a total of 700 miles since 1994. Doesn't come out of the garage much! Will next summer though.

Keep the stories coming!

For some reason this thread reminded me of the time I watched this guy change the cylinder head gasket on his 4 cylinder mini. When he had finished it, he was just putting the hood down when he spotted a brand new head gasket hanging on the garage wall. Guess where that should have gone?!! I had never heard such bad language in my life up until that point! I was dying to laugh, but daren't! Did later though!

Andy

 

When I bought my 83 Z I had to replace the shifter plate, instrument bezel; stereo/AC bezel and enitre dash; (not just the pad) because some 70's reject glued wood paneling to all of it.
I'm wating to find narcotics somewhere in the car.

 

My friend bought a car that had sat for year or two. and rats decided to make it there home. Well after we picked it up we tried the ac, and all we heard was somthing thumping around in the blower fan!

 

When i bought my car, it reeked of cologne. Good smell though. I wish i knew kind it was. I wouldn't wear it, but I would dump a whole thing of it into a thirdgen to remind me of my Trans Am.

Unless you hang out with criminal people or are known by the local cops for getting stoned with your buddies everyday, lost bags of ganja are really no concern. What are your chances of being pulled over and searched? You do have a fourth amendment right by the way. No one is going to call the police if you are spotted throwing away a dried up bud. Firing it up in a 3 foot bong with all of your friends in your front yard,however, can attract some unwanted attention!

Drug dogs can smell anything, and I mean anything! If you plan on crossing borders, you may want to ask the police about a 'free drug sweep of a used car', I'd like to know myself. It seems like taking apart some key parts of the interior, like seats and panels are a good way to find all of the surprizes right away.

the guy with the airbag should find a replacement connector, if it was really messed up. always disconnect the battery completely when meesing with air bags and never put your face infront of it, even if the power is disconnected.

 

It's never a good thing to buy a car with fuses, extra fluids, or the like kicking around in it... but I haven't caught on yet lol

My first car, 87 SC, had fuses and a warehouse worth of oil in the back... that car had so many wiring problems!!! Put it this way, the guy messsed up so bad putting the radio in, the driving lights were always on!

My 88 Iroc that I have now, I found tons of change in, mostly in the console when I put my short throw shifter in.

I also found a New England Dragway ticket for Racer's admission under the dashpad (and he said it was babied!!)

 

I my newest camaro, while i was vaccuming the other day,I took off the shifter plate to disconnect the hatch switch because i have subs and dont my hatch to open so easy, anyway, I took it off and it looked like the former owner had kept it off and used it as an ashtray... There had to have been like 30 cigarrette butts in there and a ton of ashes. EWWW so i just sucked it all up and now have nothing like thati n there. Both ashtrays were full too... But i took care of that. In autoshop i took them out and put them in a bench vice and used screwdrivers, pliers ect to pry off the round thing you put it out with, then i sandblasted em. They now look like polished aluminum

 

HA HA HAAAAAAA!!!!! This thread is hilarious! When I bought my GTA, the drivers side seat squeaked and had a hard time reclining, and I was going to run speaker wires under the carpet anyways. So, I thought I'd take it out and repair and oil it. It's a cloth seat. So, I unbolt it and notice something crunchy on the underside of the front of the seat! I flipped it over only to discover that the previous owner was a compulsive booger picker/wiper. YYYYYIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! NASTY! This stuff was THICK. And CRUNCHY! Since I couldn't afford new seat covers, I just washed it the best I could. Interior looks great otherwise. I guess the dude would drive around, just picking away and wiping them under the seat. When we bought my wife's Cadillac, I decided I'd check the air filter when I got it home. So, I pulled the cap off to discover a dead squirrel wrapped around the air filter with a bunch of nuts in there. Weird. Matt