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Posted by: xsboost90 Mar 21 2005, 08:55 PM

so im parting this 924s that i got a real good deal on, and happened to stumble across four hundred dollar bills wrapped tightly in a rubber band stuffed down by the shifter under the consule....almost got all my money back for the car!

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Posted by: Lou W Mar 21 2005, 08:57 PM

Any Coke residue?

Posted by: xsboost90 Mar 21 2005, 08:58 PM

ya know that is the number one response! I think it was the old guys emergency road fund. - hes passed on now so im keeping it-

Posted by: TimT Mar 21 2005, 08:59 PM

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Any Coke residue? ohmy.gif

LOL

the glorious results of a mis-spent youth

Posted by: LvSteveH Mar 21 2005, 09:01 PM

Tainted money.....

You better set things right by spending it on your 914!

Posted by: sean_v8_914 Mar 21 2005, 09:02 PM

does this go with teh Delorean thread?

Posted by: morphenspectra Mar 21 2005, 09:04 PM

$400, thats awesome. We found lots of coinage under seats and carpets, but never any cash.

HIEDI

Posted by: tracks914 Mar 21 2005, 09:05 PM

I found about $4 in my car when I tore it down.

Thats one way I knew it came from the US, it was all in American coins. (and a Californian matchbook from a Disco in the 70's)

Posted by: BMartin914 Mar 21 2005, 09:08 PM

Found $.50

Posted by: bondo Mar 21 2005, 09:13 PM

I found probably $1 worth of misc change in mine.. it was in amongst enough varmint droppings that it just went into the shop vac with the rest of the crap. Not worth $1... but I'd have gone digging (with gloves) for $400

Posted by: 9146986 Mar 21 2005, 09:24 PM

I guess I got you all topped! I purchased a real nice '74 2.0, bad paint but solid rust fairly rust free, great longs, five Fuchs, A/C with center console, Bilstein suspension pkg, front & rear sways, black with tan interior. Fair price not a steal, but worth what I paid.

As soon as I got the car, long before I ever started tearing the car apart, I tried to find the previous owners and got nothing but dead ends.

About six months later, I started taking it apart to start restoring it, and found a .75 carat marquis solitare engagement ring under the center console!!! Our local jeweler, without taking the diamond out of the mount roughly valued the stone at $1500!!!

So if any of you guys are getting engaged let me know, I'll give you a great deal on a ring.

Posted by: redshift Mar 21 2005, 09:30 PM

QUOTE (TimT @ Mar 21 2005, 10:59 PM)

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Any Coke residue? ohmy.gif

LOL

the glorious results of a mis-spent youth

924, not a DeLorean.

M

Posted by: GWN7 Mar 21 2005, 09:49 PM

How much for the right front fender off the 924? (if it's any good?)

Posted by: CptTripps Mar 21 2005, 09:57 PM

I bought an 87 Saab Convertable a few years ago, and when I pulled the carpet to weld a few patces in the floor-board, I found $106 in change. It kept creeping and creeping into the center tunnel, until it was packed solid. I got under there with a cut-off disk to clear the rust away, and quarters started dumping onto my chest. Then we started digging, and ended up with a SACK of rusty-ass change.

I found a mouse skeleton in my 914...Guess I used up all my good luck on the Saab.

Posted by: MattR Mar 21 2005, 10:04 PM

I found about 84 cents in change when I pulled my carpet

Posted by: Racing916 Mar 21 2005, 10:05 PM

:DMy dad found a old rusty screwdriver in the center tunnel of a car he was parting out. It was a crafstman and because of the lifetime guarantee he took it in and got a new one. I would rather find $400 bucks or a diamond ring though.

Posted by: scruz914 Mar 21 2005, 10:20 PM

Split it with your significant other. You won't regret it!

Posted by: Demick Mar 21 2005, 11:10 PM

All I found in my 914 was a bunch of business cards from a psychic. Dunno if the P.O. was the psychic, or just a nutjob who frequented psychics.

I wish I kept a card. Would have been fun to call up and ask the psychic if they knew why I was calling.

Demick

Posted by: Always Looking Mar 21 2005, 11:31 PM

I found a big ass screw and a 6 mm socket in the fan (sounded like Hell when i ran it the first time until the socket launched into the engine bay and the screw jammed the fan stuck) I kept them though.

Posted by: TonyAKAVW Mar 22 2005, 12:41 AM

I found a 911 front suspension, cookie cutter wheels, SC brake calipers (front) bilstein shocks, 911 sway bar, newly powder coated trailing arms with new bushings, vented rear rotors, with early 911 hubs and stub axles, 944 parking brake parts, all good rubber seals, decent seats, perfect dash, perfect late guages, complete chrome trim...

-Tony

Posted by: MattR Mar 22 2005, 12:51 AM

didnt they ban you?

Posted by: SpecialK Mar 22 2005, 01:03 AM

You guys lucked out........all I found when I pulled up the carpets on my '74 was RUST!!

Posted by: william harris Mar 22 2005, 07:04 AM

My car (originally from Kalifornia) yielded a receipt dated 1984 from a Redondo Beach speedo repair shop! I kept it and about .25 cents in loose change. Oh, all the rust was free!

Posted by: xsboost90 Mar 22 2005, 07:08 AM

well, my gf's brother was over helping me take the interior out, and when i pulled the consule out he found it tucked in a little "pocket" in front of the shifter. I almost told him to keep it cuz it lookedl ike a buck or two, then i saw the 100's and im like WTF!!!!!! So i split it with him.

Posted by: Steve Thacker Mar 22 2005, 07:52 AM

I found a dime bag of weed in a parts car. It was stuffed under the dash.

Posted by: vsg914 Mar 22 2005, 08:11 AM

QUOTE (Steve Thacker @ Mar 22 2005, 07:52 AM)
I found a dime bag of weed in a parts car. It was stuffed under the dash.

A cop found a 35mm film can with weed in my top storage handle cup. It wasn't mine! Mine was in the front trunk!!!! He threw it away and gave me a strong lecture. Whew!

Posted by: Mike T Mar 22 2005, 07:42 PM

In the early '70's I bought a 1962 VW Beetle. During the first tune up I slid under the car to adjust the clutch cable. I used to clamp a vise grip to the end just at the clutch arm to keep the cable from turning when I turned the nut. (this was before the wingnut adjuster) There was already a pair of vicegrips clamped to the cable by the PO.

Mike T

Posted by: JOHNMAN Mar 22 2005, 10:26 PM

My dad just bought a 1974 taildragger (mostly original) and found SMUT in the front trunk. This must have been pre videotape or at least before video was main-stream. It was in its original plain yellow envelope (opened of course). It was mailed in 1975.

It was 8mm film. Pretty low quality porn, but it was porn. As expected, it was mailed from California.....

Posted by: Eric Taylor Mar 22 2005, 11:59 PM

Sounds like you had the most luck out of us all XSBOOSt , all I got was babie wipes from the 70's when I pulled the gas tank out. Why the hell they got their I will never know

Posted by: msglaigaie Mar 23 2005, 11:37 AM

I have a mother in law just across the border in Canada, eh. So when I was cleaning out my newly purchased '74 2.0 last jan,low and behold I find a small bag of maryjewanna under the passenger seat. Laughing my butt off in the diveway, I then pictured myself crossing the border. The shop vac came right out and a detailed cleaning began. I then went down to the State police, turned in the aformentioned SMALL bag of marajaweeny and was bestowd a "get out of jail free card" just in case. cool. Thirty two years in the military, getting "randomly" picked for every damn urinalisis and I finally get a "get out of jail free card" go figure.
MSG L

Posted by: scotty b Mar 27 2005, 09:59 AM

QUOTE (Mike T @ Mar 22 2005, 05:42 PM)
In the early '70's I bought a 1962 VW Beetle. During the first tune up I slid under the car to adjust the clutch cable. I used to clamp a vise grip to the end just at the clutch arm to keep the cable from turning when I turned the nut. (this was before the wingnut adjuster) There was already a pair of vicegrips clamped to the cable by the PO.

Mike T

Damn, that brings back some memories!! My best friend in high school had a Karmann Ghia with a bad clutch, so we towed it to my house and pulled the engine. I put a new clutch pressure plate etc in, put the engine back in, and the damn thing wouldn't start f-ed with it for the rest of the day Sat, and most of Sun. tiwed it back to his house and he borrowed his dads car to go to school. He calls me on Wed. and said he got the car running. "How?" I asked. His response........"you want your vise grips back?" I forgot to take them off of the fuel line