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

[Father Ted]

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?

About £40 a shirt down Afflecks Palace. I only found out about this a couple of weeks ago when talking to a lad who is getting out shortly.

[Jonnyvalenta]

£20 note folded up neatly in the (unused) ashtray of an old 205 diseasel I trailered home last year. Result!

[ashmicro]

Some years ago a mate bought a house, sight-unseen, at an auction. House an contents. The house was in shit state, with no interior walls, mid he only paid £3k.Imagine our delight then, upon opening up the garage with a crowbar (no keys) to find a Triumph 2500Pi. In the boot was a case of vodka and a gimp mask!

[ProgRocker]

The Escort diesel I just bought had an assortment of crap in it. Most useful was an invoice for a replacement tyre bought in 2007, which I have filed with my other car docs. All the old tax discs too and curiously, a box of Morrisons own brand coloured drawing pins.Most valuable was half a tank full of diesel. Classic Mini dashboards can reveal of cornucopia of spare change and other goodies!

[ashmicro]

Imagine our delight then, upon opening up the garage with a crowbar (no keys) to find a Triumph 2500Pi. In the boot was a case of vodka and a gimp mask!

I wondered where I'd left that parked, you didn't happen to find my Conservative Party membership card at the same time, did you?

You are David Mellor and I claim my 5 guineas!

[GJR 11L]

An Austin A60 that I'd just bought for £500 came with a nice surprise. The demister wasn't clearing the passenger side of the screen properly, so I reached in behind the glove hole and pulled the corrugated pipe out to find that it had been completely blocked.........by a roll of banknotes that came to a total of £770.Did I A) Drive straight back to the vendor's house to tell him that I'd found the cash.B)Spend the lot on wine, women and song orC) Use it to replace the engine that had been described as "recently reconditioned" when, after the cereal packet slices that had been preventing the ends from knocking disintegrated, an amazing 80 miles after purchase, justifying my action by telling myself that it served the bugger right for selling me a car with cardboard shells in the first place?No clues now....Oh, and I found a rather pleasant and almost complete Henry of decent puff in the ashtray of the 127, I needed to use some of that after driving the damned thing home with a binding front brake, 't'was a pity that they hadn't left any skins there to go with it...

[j-j]

C) Use it to replace the engine that had been described as "recently reconditioned" when, after the cereal packet slices that had been preventing the ends from knocking disintegrated, an amazing 80 miles after purchase, justifying my action by telling myself that it served the bugger right for selling me a car with cardboard shells in the first place?

I'm guessing this is the right answer?!?I've not found anything great but my first CX (a 1978) had nothing of interest until a day some months later when I removed the centre console surron=und of the handbrake etc and found a dropped ~Elizabeth Shaw chocolate "yes" I said as I proceeded to unrwap the gold dimpled foil to see the state of the indeterminate aged 70s, middle class nibble. What I saw there was no longer choccy but was the brightest, most luminous green powder you've ever seen - looking more like something that could take super man out I proudly brought it indoors to show everyone my ancient find only for it to be swiftly swiped out my hand by my mum and chucked in the bin. I can only speculate as to the chemical compounds that had developed in that foil wrapper.Also found some old 5ps and a big, heavy 50p old skool - I think these weigh half a kilo each - could take out a Jumbo with one of them. And a whole bunch of 'East Coast Motors' bus tickets from around 1989.There was also a number of tiny glass cubes suggesting a window had been smashed at one point in history - I kinda liked this as it gives a teeny insight into an event in the car's history but that the time/place or incident is lost. Break in? smash and grab? never know. Sometimes I have found old ice scrapers or old skool tyre pressure gauges in glove boxes and things but no goodies like cash

[Alexg]

When I was at a Vauxhall dealer a few years ago my mate took a Mitz L200 in chop. After the customer had left my mate jumped in lowered the sunvisor and a huge stash of 50s fell on his lap. Unfortunatly the customer was a pikey and phoned up later to say he had left some money in the car. Another collegue found a dead cat in a bag in the boot. It had been there a while... Other bits include tons of Cds cassettes etc, 5 litres of oil (unopened), still rapped up box of rewriteable Cds, the service history it never had, shoes, money, photo ID, Orange roof light, a receipt for work proving the car had been round the clock (I was told it was 95k but it was 195k, so got lots of money off), tools, kids toys, womens knickers with soiled gusset and a replica pistol....

[Pillock]

A roll of tinfoil and a sledgehammer in my Quattro.And once, a box of used, various nuts and bolts. Luckily not off the car I found them in, since there was about five cars worth in there. Foot-square box, foot deep in bolts. All oily, some painted heads, like they've just raided a scrapyard.

[Owain-328i]

A Chris Rea Album cassette under the passanger seat of my parents then recently aquired G reg Volvo 740 estate, this was circa 1992. A black and decker staple gun (proper beast) on the parcel shelf behind the headrest of an Orion i bought about 2005. Was still boxed too!!

[tonedepear]

My gImpian was a right mess when I bought it. had been used as a smoking room, and the floor was literally carpeted with tab ends that had just been left to burn out. Bit weird. The n/s/f headlight was cracked, which I knew was bound to be a pita to source. When I cleared out all the garden waste and poly bags that were in the boot, low and behold, there was a nice shiny n/s/f headlamp unit hiding away. Winner.

 

Bizarrely it also had a fully Proton main stealer stamped service book in the boot, which I was dead pleased to find until I spotted it was for a whole other car. Surreal.

 

Other than that, pads and the odd haynes manual in previous motors. Oh, and a USB charger and bluetooth headset in the Xsara, acshully. Fuck it, all free stuff is awesome, right?

[Wilko220]

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.

 

It was the spare tyre well in the case of an old Rover 75 I bought a while back. Odd.

[Cheggers]

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.

 

It was the spare tyre well in the case of an old Rover 75 I bought a while back. Odd.

 

Clearly not speaking from experience , but you generally only hide johnnies if you don't want the missus finding them

 

And to add to the tally of "finds", there was a fine collection of German pronography under the seats of the Porsche when I bought it.

[Father Ted]

 

 

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

 

Clearly not speaking from experience , but you generally only hide johnnies if you don't want the missus finding them

 

And to add to the tally of "finds", there was a fine collection of German pronography under the seats of the Porsche when I bought it.

Have a vasectomy, then you can sow your wild oats whilst guaranteeing a crop failure.

[Bren]

My sister purchased an old vw polo a year ago - in the boot were various implements that were obviously for "hook and cane" type burglaries and a letter from a one of her majesty's prisons.

 

I advised my sister to get rid of them or I would arrest her for going equipped.

[Skizzer]

Someone's spare front door key, loosely blutacked inside the fusebox of a Mini Clubman. Unsurprisingly this led to some interesting electrical failures and burning smells until we found and extracted it

 

I suspect I've left more oddities in cars than I've found, especially old tapes.

[scooters]

My BX had a pair of mother of pearl opera glasses lurking in the oily stuff in the boot.

 

as the BX had been owned by Messrs Vek Torsten and Nige Bickle I think we are entitled to an hexplaination!!