Thread: What have you found!!!!! stories???????

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I forgot all about them ,till you guys started joke'in around. There probuble not that old but ,I've never seen or heard of these brands ! I guess " the old owner was just being a little 2 optimistic!" I'm going to try and post them ???/

probable open them up and it would just be dust Anyway ,Ya ..I got it to work but I made it to big ! I hate it when you have to scroll over to read! I'll keep them small from now on. good stories guys! thanks for sharing.

It wouldn't let me repost it smaller in the edit page,?........or I couldn't fig-r it out

OK we are thru-with "compooters-4-dum-hicks 101." back to the stories.

The ability to find stuff just kind of runs in the family. A great uncle of mine bought a wrecked panel truck in the 50s. Turns out it was a guy's work truck, and when it flipped, all his tools got stuck in the roof supports. He cut the roof off and made his money back in the tools he found. As for what I've found it depends on the car. I regularly drive around the countryside looking for parts, and on one expedition I struck gold. My uncle had been searching for a particular 1960 GMC B model for 20 years, and I just happened to find it. We bought a wrecked truck that had a case of 22 rimfire bullets open on impact. Apart from finding 20-30 on the floor, you knock on the dash or seat and look to the floor and you will find a few. I have gone to work on old abandoned projects and found tools that were new and went missing 30 years ago. I went trampling through the woods on the family estate, and found no less than 10 Porsche 914s I had never seen before, and 5 no one remembered we had. Bought a 1972 Suburban and found a bunch of tools and parts in it. Unfortunately the previous owner reclaimed the tools, but at least we got a good Corvair Monza with the deal. I have gone searching through old cars and found parts no one knew we had. I'm sure when I start disassembling my Nash LaFayette I'll find some good stuff, as a cursory search already turned up some missing parts. My cousin went looking around the 914s and found enought spare parts inside of them to nearly put together a new one. But no, I haven't found any dead folks in trunks or things of exceeding value, just a bunch of interesting stuff, apart from that 1933 double eagle gold piece I found in an old Buick. I have found an assortment of old coins in the cars I have worked on. Including the antique pennies left as date markers. It appears when a car was parked on the lot, a shiny new penny of that year was left somewhere in or on the car. An iteresting habit I carry on today. Makes for a good refrence when trying to remember just when that car came in.

True, Streets, times do change. Also money decomposes and has a mysterious way of disappearing soon after it is placed there. At least with pennies they seem to stay just where they were left. We had vandals come through and bust the glass out of all the Fairlanes, most of the Corvairs and Corvans, the Edsels, an old Willys Overland explorer. The interiors are now shot. We even found the people who did it. The law wouldn't touch them. That glass had been there for 30 years with those cars. People used to be more considerate. Yep, times do change. That is why I only use pennies and try to park the cars closer to the house.