Thread: roadside treasures???

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what is the coolest thing you guys have found on the side of the road? I saw this on another forum and could not resist, I have found four squares of new vinyl siding still in the boxes, my dad found a brand new ghetto blaster, and a coleman cooler full of iced down pabst, has any one ever found any useable car parts?

Only ever found a few tools on the roadside,but about the best was a 25 mm ring spanner,good quality unit,now I just need a big nut to try it out on....No smart remarks,Whiplash...

Not exactly by the roadside(but out by a guys garbage cans set out for the trash pickup) two complete 40 Ford front brake setups. Complete from backing plate to drum, with all internals and even bearings, painted a nice shiny black. Evidently he was switching over to new fangled disc brakes and put these out as garbage. I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted them.

One mans trash is another mans (old school) treasure.

I did see a racing slick laying along the interstate near Jacksonville one time but couldn't stop because I had my boss in the car making sales calls and I don't think he was a hot rodder.

Don

155MM artillary round!

A leather back pack with a undisclosed amount of cash

flowmaster muffler, along with most of the cat- back exhaust from a small ricer- ish car ( huge exhaust tip, and no hump for the rear end so it was FWD ).. I took the flowmaster and left the piping there.. then sold the flowmaster to a friend for $20

My old cat, Monica, when she was just a kitten. Still got her 12 years later. Actually, I found two. The other ones name was Bill, but he didnt make it more than a few years before he got mowed down in the street.

One Sunday afternoon a couple of years ago I'm riding my motorcycle on Mulholand Drive in the Santa Monica mountains.

The road is a two lane "no shoulder" old county road in the mountains. I cruise over a rise and into a small valley and spot a completely restored 1900 era car of unknown make to me, that is barely off the road and the owner is looking at the rear wheel like it's broken. Hey I'm a car guy, and he's in an old car and broken down so I continue up the road to a safe point to turn around and go back to see if I can help him out.

I pull up to the car and ask "what's the problem", the guy says he heard something fall off the car and thinks he lost his hub cap about a quarter of a mile back. The car has wood spoke wheels and the hub cap was small about the size of a soda can but made out of polished brass that screwed on to the hub. I told him I did not see anything but I would go back and take a look for him on the side of the road. I started off and he turned around and followed me. Sure enough about a quarter of a mile back on the side of the road I spotted the small shiny brass hubcap and stopped to point it out to the driver.

I told him that he might have a hard time replacing that at PEP BOYS, we both laughed, he thanked me and we went our way.

Oh, by the way.......driver was JAY LENO.

My son was pissed when I told him the story when I got home, he said that you should have at least begged him for a tour of his garage!

Was out hunting pheasants many years ago with my brother. Found a Watch that was in a box on the side of the road. Worked good.

Another time, found a large roll of heavy gage plastic sheeting on the side of the road. Used that as vapor barrier when I finished my basement.

I have found a few tools over the years. Best one was a 3 1/2 pound ball-pein hammer with an unbreakable handle. It was in the middle of the road during a pouring rain storm. Had to drive around the block due to traffic and was surprised to find it still there when I got back. I have used the hammer for the past 20 years.

I found a bbc 454 in the middle of a street one evening, years ago.........wait back the truck up here!
I had lost it about an hour earlier, when it roll out the back of my truck,(I had a camper shell, and the whole back door lifted up when I had pulled away from the stop sign.
It was about 2:00 in the morning, I had to get my younger and older bothers out of bed to help me go get it.We laughed so hard it took us about an hour to roll it up a plank in to the bed of the truck.,luckly no one ran into it!

i found a sack full of money but my older bigger brothers took it from me

well i do not know if she was a treasure but i pick up someone wife she was in need of a ride . i drop here off at the next block when the guy in back of me was wanting her back

A guy that lives about a mile from me found a Rolex watch in the middle of the road working fine one day. He found it November and reported it to the local sheriff and did not hear anything until Dec.24 when I showed up at his door to claim it. I had put it on top of my car while working on it. Forgot. Took the kids to get ice cream and lost it. This was a gift from the company I worked for completing 15 years of employment with them. My name was engraved on the back and I guess he did not think of going to city hall to check the name out. I walked the roads every chance I got sick. I had put a sign at a local store about a lost watch. Christmas eve morning the phone rang and it was the sheriff asking if I had lost an expensive watch. I said yes and he said someone had called him and reported one. I said do you know their name and phone number and he said no. But I know where they live. I met him there. It was a good Christmas gift.