No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your car?
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I can only assume that an overwhelming majority of third gen owners are not the original owners of the cars. Unfortunately for those of us who appreciate the cars, many of them are beaten, trashed and disrespected horribly. On top of that, let's face it, the cars are approaching 20+ years old, so they've probably had a lot of owners who left a lot of things, hopefully accidentally, in the car.
The reason I bring this up is when I bought my '91 z/28, there was this really loud rattling coming from inside the drivers door whenever I hit a bump. Not even a rattling, more of a thumping noise. It wasn't causing any harm, and I was busy with school and work, so I let it rattle it's little brains out for about a month until yesterday I finally had a nice day and some free time to pull the door panel off and find out exactly what on earth was making that noise.
Well...here it is :
it's a solid steel coil spring. Weighs almost 3 pounds. I have no idea what it is/where it came from, as I've never seen one inside a third-gen door before between owning 3 and junkyard diving countless times. The only thing I can equate it to is one of the springs that older cars used to hold the hood open.
Well anyways, since I've made this astoundingly odd discovery, I was just wondering if anybody else has ever found anything weird in their third gen.
edit - crap, I made a typo in the title.
The reason I bring this up is when I bought my '91 z/28, there was this really loud rattling coming from inside the drivers door whenever I hit a bump. Not even a rattling, more of a thumping noise. It wasn't causing any harm, and I was busy with school and work, so I let it rattle it's little brains out for about a month until yesterday I finally had a nice day and some free time to pull the door panel off and find out exactly what on earth was making that noise.
Well...here it is :
it's a solid steel coil spring. Weighs almost 3 pounds. I have no idea what it is/where it came from, as I've never seen one inside a third-gen door before between owning 3 and junkyard diving countless times. The only thing I can equate it to is one of the springs that older cars used to hold the hood open.
Well anyways, since I've made this astoundingly odd discovery, I was just wondering if anybody else has ever found anything weird in their third gen.
edit - crap, I made a typo in the title.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Well I am just starting to rip out my interior. So far I've only found tons of garbage under the seats. Also a half full packet of Skyline Chili hot sauce. I feel so lucky.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found something very disturbing yesterday. Pennies, nothing weird about that right. Well how bout 13 pennies inside driver side valve cover. A couple of them were smashed flat but there doesn't appear to be any damage to the valve train. But seriously, how ****** up do you have to be to put change there?
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I pulled the carpet out of mine and found a chip-n-dales "dude info card", a salena picture sticker and an old pair of panties. I almost stopped and sold the car after I found the last one!!!
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
lmao they were pretty big, I think they might have used them as a parachute at the track!!!!
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
HOLY ****! i seriously found the exact same thing in the spare tire compartment. I also found a scraper that had a velvet handle... weird...
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I know it's not really the inside but my 83 Z28 had a hornets nest in the passnger side mirror. I had it for 3 days before I finally figured out where they were coming from.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found some motley crue tapes in mine.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I can only assume that an overwhelming majority of third gen owners are not the original owners of the cars. Unfortunately for those of us who appreciate the cars, many of them are beaten, trashed and disrespected horribly. On top of that, let's face it, the cars are approaching 20+ years old, so they've probably had a lot of owners who left a lot of things, hopefully accidentally, in the car.
The reason I bring this up is when I bought my '91 z/28, there was this really loud rattling coming from inside the drivers door whenever I hit a bump. Not even a rattling, more of a thumping noise. It wasn't causing any harm, and I was busy with school and work, so I let it rattle it's little brains out for about a month until yesterday I finally had a nice day and some free time to pull the door panel off and find out exactly what on earth was making that noise.
Well...here it is :
it's a solid steel coil spring. Weighs almost 3 pounds. I have no idea what it is/where it came from, as I've never seen one inside a third-gen door before between owning 3 and junkyard diving countless times. The only thing I can equate it to is one of the springs that older cars used to hold the hood open.
Well anyways, since I've made this astoundingly odd discovery, I was just wondering if anybody else has ever found anything weird in their third gen.
edit - crap, I made a typo in the title.
The reason I bring this up is when I bought my '91 z/28, there was this really loud rattling coming from inside the drivers door whenever I hit a bump. Not even a rattling, more of a thumping noise. It wasn't causing any harm, and I was busy with school and work, so I let it rattle it's little brains out for about a month until yesterday I finally had a nice day and some free time to pull the door panel off and find out exactly what on earth was making that noise.
Well...here it is :
it's a solid steel coil spring. Weighs almost 3 pounds. I have no idea what it is/where it came from, as I've never seen one inside a third-gen door before between owning 3 and junkyard diving countless times. The only thing I can equate it to is one of the springs that older cars used to hold the hood open.
Well anyways, since I've made this astoundingly odd discovery, I was just wondering if anybody else has ever found anything weird in their third gen.
edit - crap, I made a typo in the title.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
when mine was a roler, i had it parked in front of my mom's house. got a buddy to help me load it on a trailer to move it to my house and i kept smelling something funky.
turns out there was a dead squirrel under the drivers seat!
turns out there was a dead squirrel under the drivers seat!
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
That looks like the spring from a window regulator, are you sure your spring is still on yours?
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found something very disturbing yesterday. Pennies, nothing weird about that right. Well how bout 13 pennies inside driver side valve cover. A couple of them were smashed flat but there doesn't appear to be any damage to the valve train. But seriously, how ****** up do you have to be to put change there?
They "changed" the oil.
I'll be here all week.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found something very disturbing yesterday. Pennies, nothing weird about that right. Well how bout 13 pennies inside driver side valve cover. A couple of them were smashed flat but there doesn't appear to be any damage to the valve train. But seriously, how ****** up do you have to be to put change there?
Weirdest thing I ever found in a car was a quarter...and I don't mean change.
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I purchased a 89 formula 350 for the 12" disc rear end and found a $100 & $50 poker chips under the back seat. Tried to return them but they change them out periodicly to avoid counterfieting(that sucked).
I recently purchased an 80 Z28 and found a dead squirel under the front seat
I recently purchased an 80 Z28 and found a dead squirel under the front seat
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Ooh i found something else.
I took off my door panels to replace my weather stripping a while back, and inside the window was some ticket to a club named like "Rocksalt" or something and there was a VIP badge in the passenger side mirror. Lol looked from early 90's
I took off my door panels to replace my weather stripping a while back, and inside the window was some ticket to a club named like "Rocksalt" or something and there was a VIP badge in the passenger side mirror. Lol looked from early 90's
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
in my first camaro that i ever bought, an 84 berlinetta, i got it for $400, found several roaches, 3 clips, the oil that they forgot to put back into the engine after the change and a wad of cash under the seat, the wad was $300 so i got all that for $100, i was pretty happy lol
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I recently bought my 92, and under the driver side rear seat, I found a towel that was used to soak up rain water, under the driver seat I found a 2 year old bag of cheetos..., and under the passenger rear seat, I found a transparent pink recorder. LOL...I was like wtf?
I also vacuumed up which what appeared to be 5 years worth of straw collected under the hood and in between the hatch top / body... ****ing pigs lol.
It looked like this
Cept, dirty, sticky....ugh lol glad that went in the trash! WTF
I also vacuumed up which what appeared to be 5 years worth of straw collected under the hood and in between the hatch top / body... ****ing pigs lol.
It looked like this
Cept, dirty, sticky....ugh lol glad that went in the trash! WTF
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
i found in my 88 gta 9million band aids and cotton ***** everywere scopion seat covers floor mats and sterring wheel cover lol gay! and a used seringe wtf man
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. Although the snow was cut pretty damn bad
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I removed the back seats in one of my camaros and found a pack of easy widers papers. They seemed as old as the car. Of course I called the police right a way!
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Why would you call the police????Rolling papers arent illegal.One time I found like 5 packs of ez widers in a junkyard camaro.You know I put them to good use
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
My First Car was a 1964 VW Beetle. The Driver's Side Floorboard was actually a Stop Sign. Poetic Justice?
I Had a 1986 Chevy Truck: The Radiator was held in place with Zip Ties, The Exhaust System (What there was of it) was held in place with Coat Hangers, When you turned on the Turn Signal, the Entire Dash Blinked with the signal. They Put the Radiator Overflow in an almost Horizontal position on the Fender. It was useless there.
I Had a 1986 Chevy Truck: The Radiator was held in place with Zip Ties, The Exhaust System (What there was of it) was held in place with Coat Hangers, When you turned on the Turn Signal, the Entire Dash Blinked with the signal. They Put the Radiator Overflow in an almost Horizontal position on the Fender. It was useless there.
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I always seem to find a different color of a girl's hair in my car...front seats, backseats, under the hatch, you name it. So far, Blonde, Brunette, Redhead, Black hair (complete with hairtie *ew*). trust me, not that many girls actually want to be seen in my car.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found about 10 boxes of ammunition hidden under the plastic panels in the trunk area. Previous owner admitted to running weapons and ammo across the mexican/california border.
BTW, the rounds were tracer rounds... 7.62x39mm ... Can you say AK47 round?
BTW, the rounds were tracer rounds... 7.62x39mm ... Can you say AK47 round?
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Or M-14 Round, or M-60 Round, or 240B Round. Yeah, i'm in the Army, What of it?
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Holy ****. Pictures! That's insane man.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Ripped the carpet out of the '79, and there was a whole mess of Coors beer bottle caps.
Which explains the crappy work on the car done by owners past.
Which explains the crappy work on the car done by owners past.
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found like 8 dollars worth of quaters all over my car under the seats in the trunk backseats everywhere lol
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
In my first car, a 97 rs, after the engine blew and my dad and I were stealing the NICE 30th anniversary seats for his 93z28 we found three used condoms and a ziplock bag of cocain, which we threw away at an old dumpster. Then in my third car, an 89 formula, I found in the trunk a pair of golf clubs, a cd with crappy music on it, and the lid to the console which was wrapped in 100% real SNAKESKIN! And I haven't found anything odd in my 92 rs... yet...
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
When I bought my Trans Am in '99 the long-time owner said that his baby girl had been driving it to college for the past two years and that his princess had been good about keeping it maintained and always clean.
When I got it home and started detailing it I found unused condoms, rolling papers, the remains of a broken glass pipe, and a bunch of used up Bic lighters under the seats and in the door pockets.
Why don't I ever meet chicks like that driving sweet f-bodies? Seriously!
When I got it home and started detailing it I found unused condoms, rolling papers, the remains of a broken glass pipe, and a bunch of used up Bic lighters under the seats and in the door pockets.
Why don't I ever meet chicks like that driving sweet f-bodies? Seriously!
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Wow, some of these things you guys mention makes me want to run a junk yard. I'd have an unbelievable amount of fun just gutting the interior, and on good days, probably find at least 20 dollars in change.
I'm kind of disappointed after it's all said and done. I remember posting on this thread before I started gutting my interior, mentioning how I should find a lot of odd stuff. Found some change, a brake rotor, and some Old spice cologne (Which I actually kept, it smells good).
I'm kind of disappointed after it's all said and done. I remember posting on this thread before I started gutting my interior, mentioning how I should find a lot of odd stuff. Found some change, a brake rotor, and some Old spice cologne (Which I actually kept, it smells good).
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
Havent found anything yet but the places I havent checked such as rear seats, panels ,under carpet,spare tire area etc. Im bound to find something. This car of mine is to clean not to have anything hidden in it! Will let you know!
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
i found a pool cue in mine while i was taking the interior apart
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Re: No doubt a pointless thread, but what's the weirdest thing youv'e found in your c
I found a new (older) eldelbrock manifold in the truck of my maro 
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