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#21 ·
Andy's Auto Repair said:
Not a Chevelle story but dates back to my mullet years. In 1987 I bought a 78 400 4 speed Trans Am off a used car lot when I was 16. Working full time as a tech I was swapping on a set of new rubber. In one of the tires was a scrap piece of paper with a name and phone number. Just for the hell of it I called the number and it turned out to be the original owner. The car was bought locally at Stewart Pontiac and the guy literally lived five miles from me.

I drove over and he checked out the car. He wanted to know who painted it red and wanted to know if I wanted any of the old paperwork he had kept in his home office. I said sure and I got everything from the window sticker to the bill of sale.

Needless to say, very cool.
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#22 ·
On the drivers side... four different quarter panels spliced together with brass brazing rod, then covered with 1" of bondo to hide the mess!:mad:

A bunch of coke cans worked into pot pipes, couple of hustlers in the trunk, old tools in the kick panels and a ton more rust than I expected.:p
 
#23 ·
In the 80's I bought a 65 Nova SS for $25 ... running. After driving it home I opened the trunk to find an intake manifold and some type of mechanical device. I was young and naive so I gave it to a friend. Later I found out it was an entire Corvette fuel injection unit with the aluminum intake. The last I looked it was worth about 18K.
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Not a Chevelle... but I found a syringe bottle with red fluid of some sort under the back seat of my 1972 Cutlass Supreme. The car was originally bought by our family doctor (long since passed), then by my grandmother, then to myself 20yrs ago. I took the bottle to our current family doctor (who just happens to be late doctors son), and it was 'vitamin' stuff apparently.
 
#26 ·
In the 71 ss I bought in 1980. I found a Grocery list, stuck between the back seat and rear panel. it had a list of stuff like milk, bread, hamburger ect.. in capitol letters the Guys wife/girlfriend wrote DON'T FORGET THE EGGS THIS TIME!!! LOL. I also found 2 green plastic army men and a matchbox dumptruck under the back seat. I still have the Chevelle and the dumptruck.
 
#27 ·
as i was cutting up a 71 cutlass i bought for 300$ i cut the drivers quarter off and there was a social security card sitting at the bottom, out of respect i immediately shredded it, but it belonged to a Ms. Nancy....the last name was far from readable
Another one....
while cutting off my pass side quarter on my 79 camaro i found a windex aerosol can dated 1973......ooops!
 
#28 ·
I am in Tennessee and purchased a 64 Impala convertible from Ohio. While doing the restoration in the defrost duct work there was a post card from a drive in 30 miles from me. The card must have been from around early 70's from the cars in the picture.
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#29 ·
Not a Chevelle, but when we were tearing down my brothers 67 gto for a restore we tried to turn the motor over by hand and it would only move about 2/3 stroke. The car had been stored in a barn for years so we figured the motor had a spun bearing and that was why it was parked, it was when we cut the exhaust pipe off corn started pouring out . We pulled the head and found the cylinder packed with corn, mice had packed the exhaust with the corn and jammed the engine so it would not turn over.
 
#30 ·
realz69 said:
Not a Chevelle, but when we were tearing down my brothers 67 gto for a restore we tried to turn the motor over by hand and it would only move about 2/3 stroke. The car had been stored in a barn for years so we figured the motor had a spun bearing and that was why it was parked, it was when we cut the exhaust pipe off corn started pouring out . We pulled the head and found the cylinder packed with corn, mice had packed the exhaust with the corn and jammed the engine so it would not turn over.
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We had a similar thing happen when firing up a new rebuilt (sat for years unfired) motor in my buddies 55 Chevy. Fired that bad boy up uncorked and it started shooting dog food all over the garage. The mice had packed the cylinders (ones with exhaust valves open) full of dog food. Lucky we didn't hurt something.
 
#31 ·
Lots of little trinkets in the 7 Chevelles, but the coolest was a Funny car hot wheel (from the 70's). I thought this things gotta be worth something, looked on ebay and there were 4 or 5 on there just like it for less than $10. I said, no way. Kept it. it sits on a little nik-nak shelf in my den.
 
#32 ·
Just yesterday. 3 acorn shells (big ones) inside the heater core housing. So that's what's been rattling around with the blower motor on.
 
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My dad bought my 71 Chevelle convertible for me whan I was 13. He and I fixed it up(painted it and put a new top and carpet in it) when I was 15. When I turned 16, I started driving it. About 2 weeks after I turned 16, at the local drive in movie theatre, I went to the concession stand to get popcorn and soda for me and my date, and what I found in my car when I returned was my date naked in the back seat. She was fully clothed when I left. I don't know if that counts as the strangest, but that was the most memorable thing I ever found in my car. I'm not sure if that is the knid of story you were looking for or not, but its the truth.
 
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#36 ·
I got my 70 as a project from the classifieds here. He pulled it out of a field and never touched it. found a bullet hole in the pass door jam, spent shell casings under the seat, and a lot of little plastic baggies tucked down the side in the trunk.....along with the muncie.
 
#37 ·
In the last Camaro I had, brought her home from a towing lot, mechanic's lien applied, and cleaned out the back seat, floorboard, and trunk.
Filled a 30-gal bag of stuff.
But, the stuff included a pair of red size 5 five inch high heels and a small long bodied gray T-shirt.
 
#40 ·
heimjoint said:
Empty .357 casings under the seat, HMMMMMMM.........
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I found 2 almost full boxes of .357 magnum hollow points and 3 full boxes of .45 ACP in a used pickup I bought in the 80s. They lasted about an hour at the range.
 
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