Weird things found in your C3?
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Racer
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From: RTP NC
Weird things found in your C3?
OK, here's a can of worms!
Has anyone found any strange items either under the carpet, under the Park Brake Console or Center Console..etc?
The reason I ask is this:
I have found 3 iginition switches in my '76! One under the Center Console, one under the carpet by the drivers seat and one under the carpet behind the right rear wheel! All were still in a sealed plastic bag!!
Now I know that the carpet has never been removed and is the original since it has the sticker from a company in Ga. E.T. Barwick Mills with the yea,make & model and also was down pretty good in the car. Just wondering!
Has anyone found any strange items either under the carpet, under the Park Brake Console or Center Console..etc?
The reason I ask is this:
I have found 3 iginition switches in my '76! One under the Center Console, one under the carpet by the drivers seat and one under the carpet behind the right rear wheel! All were still in a sealed plastic bag!!
Now I know that the carpet has never been removed and is the original since it has the sticker from a company in Ga. E.T. Barwick Mills with the yea,make & model and also was down pretty good in the car. Just wondering!
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From: San Diego - Deep Within The State of CONFUSION!
OK, here's a can of worms!
Has anyone found any strange items either under the carpet, under the Park Brake Console or Center Console..etc?
The reason I ask is this:
I have found 3 iginition switches in my '76! One under the Center Console, one under the carpet by the drivers seat and one under the carpet behind the right rear wheel! All were still in a sealed plastic bag!!
Now I know that the carpet has never been removed and is the original since it has the sticker from a company in Ga. E.T. Barwick Mills with the yea,make & model and also was down pretty good in the car. Just wondering!
Has anyone found any strange items either under the carpet, under the Park Brake Console or Center Console..etc?
The reason I ask is this:
I have found 3 iginition switches in my '76! One under the Center Console, one under the carpet by the drivers seat and one under the carpet behind the right rear wheel! All were still in a sealed plastic bag!!
Now I know that the carpet has never been removed and is the original since it has the sticker from a company in Ga. E.T. Barwick Mills with the yea,make & model and also was down pretty good in the car. Just wondering!
Wow that's a strange one all right!
Race Director
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From: Scottsdale Arizona
I think the mouse turd was EBay. That may have been the funniest listing that I've ever seen.
The one that I remember was the guy that found a clutch pedal under the carpet from his car that was converted from standard to auto.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Palm City, FL
woop woop... this belongs in general..
In any case, when I put new carpet in this winter, I found a what I think is a poloriod of some GM workers posing in frount of what might be my car on the assembly line... who knows, but I thought it was a pretty cool find.
In any case, when I put new carpet in this winter, I found a what I think is a poloriod of some GM workers posing in frount of what might be my car on the assembly line... who knows, but I thought it was a pretty cool find.
Racer
Joined: May 2005
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From: Amelia Ohio
I found about 3 bucks in change, Mouse poop, a roach (smoking kind), toothpicks, lost interior screws, pine needles, a french fry. I believe that was it. It's a 79 so I can only imagine what the older cars can produce.
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Racer
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From: Oak Park IL
vintage picts
WOW that's so cool you should post it
Racer
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From: Oak Park IL
I just removed my carpet this past weekend and found a shotgun shell, lock button and a spare key that does not fit my vehicle but must have at one point prior to the removal of the doors and steering column 
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Racer
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From: RTP NC
Just a side Note, All Switches also had 1 Key with them.... very strange!
Le Mans Master
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From: Wildwood IL
Found an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workes (New York) T-Shirt bunched up under the bent seat track!!! Nice shim huh?? He also left me nearly $10.00 in change in and around the seats & retractor wells. Also left me the original leather seat covers...undisturbed....UNDER the new seat covers. 
Glad I rescued that car from Bubba...
Eddie
Glad I rescued that car from Bubba... Eddie
