Strangest stuff you have ever found in a new (old) car

[HillmanImp]

I have just cleaned out my new (old) Scenic and found a jumble of stuff hidden away in it.A load of tapes including Simply Red and an audio guide to Knowlsley Safari Park.A machete pouch (no machete unfortunately)What appears to be a catheter kit or something. Its a mask with a tube.A rubber fishWhat looks like an Indiana Jones action figure whip (or similar action figure)A wallet with a Barclaycard which expired in 2006.1 sock for children aged 4-5.This is just general tat. However, it got me wondering what the oddest things people on here have found in their many years of car buying?

[lovejoy]

have you tried out the mask + catheter kit yet ? the only interesting thing I found was a bloody great Bowie knife under the upright spare wheel in one of the Renault 12's spare location.(let us know how you get on with the rubber fish and the sock too........ )

[maxpower]

i found a (face shield) in my car... basically a little polythene mask for giving mouth to mouth to prevent germs being caught oh! and £1.24 in coppers in the ashtray

[Cavcraft]

Two thirds empty nodder packets, a lifetime's collection of half used sweets and an extremely scary cassette tape.The tape was basically some SRSLY weird girl or women sort of mumbling along to a Brittney Spears song. Imagine an escaped mantal patient, who can't actually talk after overdosing on Prozac, doing 'whooohoooo' noises and you'd be somewhere near it.It's probably still in a million pieces on the A41.Aside from that the usual array of God bothery type pamphlets, toys, foreign coins, the address to a prison and the odd love letter.

[Guest]

Thrush tablets and cream (in a clio)Soiled nappy (Audi 80)Bonio's (Vauxhall corsa)Stanley screwdriver set (Astra)Mouldy dog sick under the rear seat of a Escort estate bought when I had a cold-promptly swapped with a car dealer who also had a cold One bonus find in a mk3 cortina 2000e I bought was the handbook pack with the logbook-receipt from new and full dealers history. Car was bought cheaply with no paperwork

[AXrescuer]

My brother found a thumb and part of scalp in a car once. Mind you, he was doing motorway recovery at the time.

[Guest]

Weed (Piazza}Cat hair and fag ends (Celeste)1981 newspaper clipping (floorpan, Amazon).

[Tayne]

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[Rod/b]

I found an old five pound note in the seat runner of my Audi Coupe. I've still got it!

[HillmanImp]

1981 newspaper clipping (floorpan, Amazon).

I found 1989 newspaper clippings in my Imp. Unfortunately they were being used to pad out the filler. Not on a car but when i used to work on the buses, we once found a HUGE box of incontinence pads. It took us about 10 minutes to get them off the bus (until someone suggested we took them out of the emergency exit) as we could not get them through the door, so god knows how they got them on there in the first place.Another time i found my housemate fast asleep, drunk on the top deck*, so we stole his trousers.*I mean he was on the top deck of a double decker not that he was drunk after drinking 80's pop 'makes your breath smell like you have been drinking beer so you can look cool at school discos' drink Top Deck

[Station]

Found a receipt from a parking meter from the 80's in the Porsche I had. Could imagine it parked in London somewhere by some yuppie.

[Parky]

Previous owner of an old Chevette I bought left a spare battery unsecured in the boot which fell over and when I got it home noticed acid everywhere......Dead mouse in a Mini was another highlight.A mix tape called "1991 Summer in London" which had some half decent stuff on it taped off Robbie Vincents jazz funk show. Had that tape for years!

[pogweasel]

Bought a BMW 316 for £275, found a CD-rom workshop manual & parts catalogue thing in the door bin. Promptly bootlegged & sold about 100 copies at £4 a pop. Slightly made up for the fact I didn't realise the alloys on the car were worth mega-scene-coin, and the guy who bought it off me for £400 must have been made up.

[Albert Ross]

A couple of dozen 20 gauge handmade shotgun cartridges under the driver's seat of a Subaru Pickup! Swapped for beer!A full medical history of a mental patient under the rear seat of the Merc 300SE (promptly sent to the Surgery on the letterhead with an explanation letter, which merited a thankyou/compliments slip a week later!)A Leonard Cohen tape, which I still have. From a Mk1 Astra...

[Father Ted]

Not really found in second hand car, but found in mine when I got it back from the police impound...Approx £40 worth of heroin (4x £10 bags)Assorted needles and syringesCitric acidCouple of spoons and some filters.VHS video recorderSeveral pairs of jeans (prison issue)Couple of shirts (prison issue)Couple of grey sweatshirts (HMP Lancaster Castle issue)Bag full of letters to someone in prison (HMP Durham)3 Benefits payment books in different namesAssortment of screwdrivers and other tools (which I kept)A couple of quid in cashLots of fingerprint dust which I never washed off. I put everything in a big black binbag for the local rozzers. I was a bit surprised it came back with the drugs, though admittedly they were under the back seat and the rest of the stuff was in the boot.

[wuvvum]

I found a 1968-vintage bottle of Fairy Liquid in the boot of the Vauxhall 10. And a tin of Luvac shock absorber oil. A selection of house keys in various cars. And an old-style 50p in one of the Saabs, which I've still got (the 50p, not the Saab). Can't remember owt else.

[Station]

Approx £40 worth of heroin (which I kept)Assorted needles and syringes (which I kept)Citric acidCouple of spoons and some filters.VHS video recorderSeveral pairs of jeans (prison issue) (which I kept)Couple of shirts (prison issue) (which I kept)Couple of grey sweatshirts (HMP Lancaster Castle issue) (which I kept)Bag full of letters to someone in prison (HMP Durham) (which I kept)3 Benefits payment books in different names (which I kept)Assortment of screwdrivers and other tools (which I kept)A couple of quid in cash (which I kept)

[HillmanImp]

I put everything in a big black binbag for the local rozzers. I was a bit surprised it came back with the drugs, though admittedly they were under the back seat and the rest of the stuff was in the boot.

When I lived in Hull, my my mate Oz had his car stolen and it was used for an armed robbery. Took a few days whilst the police 'did forensics', but eventually he got it back. He was driving it home when he opened the ashtray and there were some shotgun cartridges in the ashtray.....Great forensics lads. We buried them in my mates back garden down Cluff Road. Probably still there now unless they scared the gardener being overly enthusiastic with a spade.

[VWPowered]

i found a unused jonny (best before 2002)... no score for this boy then

 

[Claypole]

In the scrap BMW a box of books, still have 4 cigarette card albums to put on Ebay but rest were rubbish and a sheaf of letters between the previous owner and the garage and solicitors regarding work paid for and not done which accounted for the bottom half of the car being beyond repair.

[wuvvum]

Several pairs of jeans (prison issue)Couple of shirts (prison issue)Couple of grey sweatshirts (HMP Lancaster Castle issue)

Aren't prison jeans and shirts supposed to be worth a lot of money on the outside?

[Minimad5]

In the fiesta pocket i found a handfull of soggy sweetcorn, tonnes of animal hair and behind the rear seat ... that hamster "stuff" . Ooh and a pair of glasses, which i must return !In the rebel i found a pack of 3 Unused comdoms which expired in 1985.In my first car (mini city E), i found a pair of adjustable pliers.In the Nissan Micra i had, i found a paper Thong ... mhhm lovely.And in the Peugeot 106 i had, i found some costly speaker wires.

[warren t claim]

A set of trade plates found in a Dolomite. Yes I used them loads of times!A start and charge in a XR3.Best of all a fully functioning Shell card in a salvage Mondeo I repaired to use as a taxi. Worked for about two months and 8000 miles before being stopped.

[Milford Cubicle]

i found a unused jonny (best before 2002)... no score for this boy then ]

What's it doing behind the light cluster?

[VWPowered]

buggered if i know there is actually the rear washer bottle that sits in that space

[Cavcraft]

buggered if i know there is actually the rear washer bottle that sits in that space

 

There must be a thing about stashing nodders behind light units, found a few myself there.

[Milford Cubicle]

"Sorry love I just need to change the tail-light bulb..."

[Tayne]

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[reallyloud]

A family of dead mice (Datsun Sunny)CO-OP stamps and a tufty club badge (Datsun 100a)A half written love note asking why she had left him (VW Beetle)3 unused winter tyres (Saab 900)RAF issue parachute buckles and some cord (BMW 2002)Almost a full collection of PG tips 'Mysteries of our times' cards and bits of Meccano (Renault 12)

[Timewaster]

A hammer and a selection of screwdrivers in an old mini (the hammer came in particularly handy on that one)A pocket am\fm radio in an AxGt.27 tyre valve caps in a mk2 cavalier - they were everywhere!Half a ton of mud and a bottle of weedkiller in the TransitA hoover bag full of dog hair in an Astra estateA shocking pink lipstick in a vitara (no surprises there)Plus a handful of (usually sticky) loose change in most things I've bought But the win for me was the £400 reciept for the Mintex discs and pads that had been fitted to the Sierra 4 days before I bought it!