Strangest things found in your car

[ThirdeYe]

I was browsing through my car one day when I was inspecting the spare tire's inflation, and underneath the tire next to the jack was a rusty old razor blade. No idea how it got there or why, but it was from the previous owners.

Earlier tonight, I was detailing the interior and looking at miscellaneous things in my car, and found a hidden little coin compartment underneath the steering wheel, opened it up and found about $5 worth of change also from the previous owner, score!

What are some strange things you've found in your car?

 

[Master ACiD]

i just bought a yamaha waveblaster a few weeks ago. when i got home i was cleaning it up and found syringes hidden inside the hull. the previous owner must have done some hard core partying on this thing. kind of creeps me out to be honest.
like what kind of person rides around high on drugs on a personal watercraft, and what lack of maintence did this thing get i wonder?

 

[sprintman]

Johnsons Baby Oil in the boot. I'm not going to touch this one...s

 

[Colt45ws]

sterile hypodermic needles under the back seat.

 

[CBDFrontier06]

I found a roach (not the insect) down inside the parking brake housing of my 78 Monza. I guess the previous owners enjoyed the occasional toke while driving.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

When I bought my 94 GC, I found several packages of condoms hidden behind the plastic trim that covers the left upper front corner post. Ditto in the spare tire well of the 88 Lebaron GTC convertible.

Not needed here.

A few years ago while removing a front seat from a mopar in the JY, I started finding coins. After pulling out all the seats and carpets, I found more then $26 in change, much of it was real silver coins. I paid $20 for the seat.

 

[The_Jeff]

I was GIVEN a saturn that the guy had curbed and tweaked the subframe. I found a gun sight in the trunk. Sold it on ebay for thirtysomething bucks. The car that pays me.

 

[Pablo]

Strangest things found in your car? Usually my breath.

 

[Anduril]

I found a movie ticket stub from the '70s in my bug, but strangely no weed.

 

[Patman]

When a detail shop was cleaning out my wife's car a few months ago they found this little pump which is used to pump up balloons. But it looks very much like the "pump" in the first Austin Power's movie! So we got a good laugh out of that one, as I said to them "it's not mine, really, it's not my bag baby!"

 

[Pablo]

The best thing I've found in cars are tools and parts. I found some cool Snap-on interior work (trim) tools in an old Volvo once. Got a good tool box full of stuff in another.

 

[Laminar Lou]

My friend used to manage an Enterprise rent-a-car. They used to find all kinds of drugs, handguns, etc. all the time. His best score was some magazines for a 1911 loaded with some speer ammo in them. He was going to buy spare magazines that very day for his Kimber and he saved himself a trip.

He noticed a very high correlation between cash rentals and drug/gun paraphernalia left in the car. They would always look hard for blood in the trunk for those rentals when they came back, but they never found one that did.

 

[rpn453]

I took apart the center console of my '87 Grand Am while wiring the alarm in and found seven 1987 loonie dollars (first year they were minted). I figured they must have been there awhile.

 

[wantin150]

Not my car, but I once found two women hiding in the trunk of their little Mazda. Their clothes and boots were on the front floor boards. Does this count?

 

[ekpolk]

1) Just when I needed it in 1979 (shortly after a fuel line had disconnected itself from the carb in my 69 Beetle, flooding the engine compartment with raw gas and fumes), I found an ~18 inch length of fuzzy fuchsia yarn under the seat. With this, I was able to perfectly "McGuyver" the fuel line back onto the carb -- and I drove the car that way for another year or so. Clearly, G o d had bigger plans for me, as He could easily have incinerated me on the spot with one push of the "SMITE" button on His Heavenly keyboard.

2) More recently, while digging around behind my back seat, I found this large, heavy, metallic-looking box with "high voltage" warnings all over it, and ominous orange, electric chair sized cables attached to it. Wonder what that might be...

 

[Chris142]

I found a pile of Cigarette butts in the door panel of my Scout. The pile was about 8 inches thick! I was taking the door apart to find out why the window wouldn't go down.........It was hitting the butts.

 

[alreadygone]

First car I ever owned, a '63 Buick convertible F85 (little aluminum V8). Had been an older fellow's son's first car. When I got it home to start cleaning found a folding stock (paratrooper model) M1 carbine under back seat! My father made me return it. Old gent was overjoyed, he had smuggled it back from European theater WW2 after loosing his leg in combat. Still regret returning though, if he'd been in touch, his son wouldn't have confiscated it, and it would STILL have a good home.

Bob

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

Way back in High School, I found Judy in my car. I never wanted Judy in my car. Heck, she could barely fit in my car--a full size '78 Ford Country Squire wagon.

That was strange. And scary.

 

[alreadygone]

Also back in the 70's, two guys working together in Ford tractor dealership. One asks the other to change oil and "grease her all over" while car owner's out on a field service call. Sure enough, when he gets back and gets in car to go home, ther is grease on, DOORHANDLE, SHIFT LEVER, KEY, and best memory serves, BRAKE PEDAL!!!! Guy never said a word, coupel weks later when trickester got in his car and reached in back floorboard for "liquid lunch" found instead a VERY unhappy 8-12lb very alive snapping turtle. Jokes discontinued.

Bob

 

[simple_gifts]

Found an uncashed pay check; bought a 1976 LeMans for $150. Found a battery charger, hedge trimmers and a picnic basket complete with a jar of mayo in the trunk. (it was august in Virginia)