Treasure found in my floorboard!

[Flatie46]

I found a goodie in my car the other day.I was pullin up the rubber mat to start patchin the floor and found a 1936 buffalo nickel.Now that really put a smile on my face.I found an old pocket knife in the fender when I was cleaning the engine bay out a few years ago.Anybody else find any treasures in there car or truck?

[P-12 Tommy]

I don't think this is a real treasure but I found a full pack of Marlboros in a hard to get to spot by the back seat. They look really old! The tobacco is all there in the cellophane but no paper.

[fireman_033]

I bought a 97 chevy crew cab about three weeks ago removed nasty carpet to clean and low and behold there was a bank envelope under the rear half. I picked it up and it was really heavy. Opened it up and nothin but 100s started countin and started gettin weak in the knees at about 20 in all there was $3600 and some change, I didnt count that. Called po as he is a friend and he insisted I keep half...........

[T120]

If I had 36 - $100 bills and some nickels,dimes and quarters to stuff in an envelope -I'd probably just toss the change

[David Strieb]

Bought my '40 P10 in 1972, was put in storage in '52. Found a '20s dime in the glove box, and some nasty non filter cig butts in the ash tray.

[wayfarerstranger]

A few weeks ago about 2 AM i heard some noise , went out side and found DON COATNEY pushing my WOODIE WAGON down my drive way , his blue race car was in the street with an empty car trailer behind it .. claimed he was sleep repoing ??? I gave him a bottle of moonshine & a moonpie and sent him back to a MURFREESBORO ..

[Don Coatney]

Guess I made too much noise. The moon pie and shine did put me to sleep in short order.

[Plymouthy Adams]

come on Don..no way a single moon pie did the trick..even if a double decker

[jimainnj]

How about mud wasp nest in ever nook and hidden place on the P15 filled a 5 gal pal

before I was done,sure glad they where dead, they came from Ark.

[Joe Flanagan]

I found a bunch of old horse racing slips from a race track in Maryland under the seat of my 49 Plymouth when I started tearing into it. They were from the 70s-80s. I was going to show them to the lady who gave me the car but then I remembered that they probably belonged to her ex-husband, who she divorced for a number of reasons, one of them being gambling. So I kept it to myself.

I did find on the door post a maintenance sticker from an Atlantic Richfield station. It was too faded and damaged to read but it looked very old. The car came from the west coast and I know Atlantic Richfield was big out there.

[TodFitch]

  Joe Flanagan said:

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I did find on the door post a maintenance sticker from an Atlantic Richfield station. It was too faded and damaged to read but it looked very old. The car came from the west coast and I know Atlantic Richfield was big out there.

According to this web site:

http://www.answers.com/topic/atlantic-richfield-company

Atlantic and Richfield merged in 1966. Not sure when they started marketing themselves as ARCO (short for Atlantic-Richfield COrporation). Were that sticker really old and the car from the west then it would just be Richfield and might tout the magic of "Richfield Boron" gasoline.

[realgonekatt]

While disassembling the seats in the 46' I found the crome for the front window

finishers, my rearview mirror and a 30's coffee can full of nos bumper bolts.

Two weeks after buying the car, the fella calls and says he found the bumpers and h. caps, when I scoop em up, They are wrapped in paper from the chrome shop (1984) never opened!! I Love this car, My mercury didnt come with nothin but rust and an exhaust leak!

[BobT-47P15]

I've found various small items in glove boxes, under seats and in the trunk of old

cars. Can't recall any too unusual or valuable. Were a batch of soda pop caps

in the 54 Plymouth I had last year....some brand not made now. Also in the trunk

were several empty transmission fluid bottles......which would lead one to believe

the tranny was leaking when parked.

[spartanbilly]

While removing the carpet and seats from my '47 Chrysler coupe I found a couple of dollars worth of silver coins, all from the 1940's, a bobby pin, an old pencil with a telephone # that didn't use the current prefix number......something like MUrphyhill7-4808 so it had to be pre 1960's. Also some matches with the striker on the front cover. Some Chesterfield cigarette butts and some Juicy Fruit wrappers. Kinda fun to think they had been lost all those years waiting for someone to uncover them.

[Flatie46]

Oh yea, in my 47 plymouth club coupe parts car I found an antique side shaft engine, a model a dash[i think] it has the ribbon type speedometer and the little manual on the clock and how to set it and so forth.I'm like a kid at Chistmas when I find neat little usless junk.

[Joe Flanagan]

One of my brothers and I used to play in salvage yards when we were kids. We used to pretend we were driving the cars. When my parents found out that drunks were using the place as a hotel, they put an end to that pretty quick. But my brother was so lucky. He'd find all kinds of good stuff. Once he found a silver dollar from 1876 in the back seat of a car. My father was a cop and he called the owner of the salvage yard to report it. The guy said, "God bless him. Let him keep it." Me, I would go to the one car in the lot that had the wasps' nest under the hood. I'd find things like some old lady's bloomers or a notice for non payment of child support (actual examples of the "treasures" I discovered). Kind of reminds me of the time I had a summer job with the post office and found a pair of women's underwear and a half-eaten jelly doughnut in a mail box. It kept me up at night for years, wondering if the two were related.

[Flatie46]

You ain't right Joe!

[40phil41]

After I pulled my '40 from the field in 1968 I found a small metal container (like an aspirin box) under the back seat with a couple of condoms in it . None of my wife's relatives would own up to whose they were. I still have it!

Phil

[Joe Flanagan]

  Flatie46 said:

You ain't right Joe!

I suppose not. Most people would just say, Well, it was two different events. But I kept coming up with ways they could be related. Some of them highly irregular, to say the least.

[pflaming]

Some mechanics used condoms to 'bandage' a cut finger, so don't get too personal.

[Don Coatney]

  pflaming said:

Some mechanics used condoms to 'bandage' a cut finger, so don't get too personal.

I have (actually still) use electrical tape and shop rags. Today I used an ice cube, kleenex, and a rubber band to secure it to my arm after I ripped a 1/2" square hunk of skin off of my forearm.

My lock jaw shots are current:cool:

[Powerhouse]

not too exiting to most people, but I found a salt packet from "some name"'s Clam Shack, "some town" Massachusetts...in the door of my old 31 Chevy rumble seat roadster. It was OLD...it was just a tiny 2 x 2 envelope...looked just like a mailing envelope with a graphic of a hand pointing at the corner saying tear here. It wasn't torn...I guess it just dropped in the door and was never used. Salt was gone though...must have gotten wet and disolved. I also found in the very same car a mouse nest in the clutch housing...after I turned over the engine...cotton stuffing from the interior was the base of the rascals home.

[wldavis3]

"The thing" to put on cuts is a wetted (in water) styptic pencil --

the little white pens that guys used to use when they cut

themselves shaving. It "smarts" a bit when first applied, but

usually stops the bleeding.

[Joe Flanagan]

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When I removed the headliner I found all kinds of critter dung and acorn shells. .

Oh yeah, found LOTS of that in my car. Also, a mouse nest next to the clutch cover. There was a huge blue velour drape in the back seat. I don't know if they were using it as a blanket or if they had a reupholstery job planned, but the thing weighed a ton. Bright royal blue and full of dust and some other substance that made me sneeze till I almost passed out. I stuffed the thing in a trash can and then heard the garbage men struggling with it the next morning. The medallion at the center of the steering wheel was smashed but as I was sorting through all the stuff in the trunk I found a replacement in excellent condition. Let's see, Washington, DC license plates from 1976; a bingo token; shopping receipts; empty Lucky Strike packages.

[knuckleharley]

  pflaming said:

Some mechanics used condoms to 'bandage' a cut finger, so don't get too personal.

I used to use them on rifle muzzles when I was in VN. Helped to keep the mud and rain out of the bore,and when you pulled the trigger the condom just dissapeared.