Im my latest Fiero, I found a pair of white golves under the drivers seat, and alternate liscene plates and live ammunition behind the passenger seat. Im kinda concerned. What the wierdest stuff you guys have come acrost?
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Coop9200 Member
Posts: 2076 From: Westchester, NY Registered: Oct 2002
when we got a '87 saab 900 for my sister's first car we found 2 knives (around 5 inches long), 2 baseball bats: 1 metal, 1 wood...and a nice collection of wu tang stickers. That certainly peaked our interests....Haven't found anything interesting in the fiero yet...
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Golden86 Member
Posts: 1191 From: Glen Ellyn IL Registered: Jan 2004
just bought a new Chevy Malibu, found a stray bolt laying on the frame....makes me worry....
I wouldn't worry too much. When we are doing a job (Work for GM) and drop a bolt, we don't pick it up unless it's easy to get to. We don't have time to do it. So, I wouldn't worry.
Kris
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Tinker Member
Posts: 220 From: Ottawa, Ontario Registered: Jun 2002
In a '79 Firebird I had years ago I found a ten inch long serrated bread knife and some blanks under the passenger seat. The most interesting thing I found in the Fiero was dog hair (yuck) and McDonalds Monopoly stickers under the console, I don't know how they got there. Kevin
I wouldn't worry too much. When we are doing a job (Work for GM) and drop a bolt, we don't pick it up unless it's easy to get to. We don't have time to do it. So, I wouldn't worry.
Kris
Thanks! the bolt didnt look like it was actually bolted to anything, the threads look virgin. and it was a Lansing build, so maybe you had a hand in it.
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gumert Member
Posts: 400 From: Hunderton, NJ Registered: Mar 2004
I've worked in a couple junk yards and around junk cars for many years.
One of the worste things to find.... Bees/wasps You often don't know they are in there until you do something to upset what is often a well esablished hive/nest inside the car body. Most other vermin is dead, runs away or gives you some warning. Not wasps.
Most of the cars I've owned came pretty clean. Change under things. nothing interesting.
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In mine I found a pink tree shaped air freshener, a drawing on Meijers stationary, and a Driving School card from Grand Rapids (where the car is from).
In my '86 I found three .22 rimfire cartridges, a pack of Swisher Sweets with one still in it, and a cassette tape with dead ants in it. No idea what's on the tape; one of these days I'll have to get a tape player I don't care about and see if the tape will play.
Oh, and $0.01...so far.
Ed
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sthtxfiero Member
Posts: 212 From: rockport texas Registered: Feb 2004
i owned an 86 parts car it had no keys so i broke the ignition so i could push it around.so when i was dropping the craddle i found a magnetic key holder(with keys) inside one of the slots in the cradle
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sardonyx247 Member
Posts: 5032 From: Nevada, USA Registered: Jun 2003
I found a crack pipe in my lastest Fiero, by the computer. So all the wireing has to be gone through now.(Never know what kinda of rigging job a crack head did.)
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Puck Member
Posts: 1501 From: Greenville, IL Registered: Dec 2000
In my first 85 se fiero i bought back in 98 i hit a stop sign sliding on gravel and switch bumpers to gt bumpers and when i took the front bumper off of my car to put the other on i found a $20 bill jammed in the absorbant....i was happy as a clam.
Adam
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wikid_one Member
Posts: 2838 From: Ocean City, MD Registered: Dec 2003
I was looking at a 79 trans am before I bought my fiero and there was a lot of wax fruit under the passenger seat. The guy was put in the mental institution and thats why the car was for sale so I wonder if he knew it wasn't real?
Nothing too strange in the Fiero...empty pack of ciggarettes and a few bad headlight motor relays - a few months later the passenger side relay went out.
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tesmith66 Member
Posts: 7355 From: Jerseyville, IL Registered: Sep 2001
A lottery ticket from 1988 with a lady's lipstick print on it was found in the pockets of my GT's visors.
Nothing exciting.
My wife's grandfather once had some GM car (don't know what it was) that had an awful clunk in it when turning a corner. After the dealer took the fender apart, they found a heavy duty air impact wrench in there. Most likely from the assembly plant.
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Posts: 2203 From: Orlando, FL Registered: Jun 2002
In my first car 85 or 86 chevy spectrum I found a Rolled up gay pride flag.... And 2 plastic tubs... I was young so I didn't know what the items ment so I left them in the glove department were they was stashed later that day I take my mom for a drive and she looks in the glove and finds those things my mom then looks at me with a blank look on her face and tells me.... Son we have to have a talk.
I finally learned what a gay pride flag actually looked like....... She never wanted to go into details about the plastic tubs.
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Eclipse Member
Posts: 2040 From: Woodstock, Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 2004
When I bought my 85 Coupe back in April, there was a parts car sitting there from which I was able to rip a bunch of parts. I found both cars just sitting in from of a boarded up repair shop which was for sale, and they had been dropped off sometime before Xmas. In the console of the parts car I found an old ownership and found that the car had belonged to my one of my old best friends who I had not seen since we were 7 yrs old. That was 23 years ago! I have often thought I should give him a call and let him know how his car is :}
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achawkins Member
Posts: 1891 From: Greenville S.C. Registered: Jun 2003
In my 85 or 86 fiero, can't recall which, I found a womans tulip ring. At least thats what my wife called it when I showed it to her. She cleaned it up and kept it. Now she can never say she hasn't gotten anything out of my fiero collection.
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in my 86 se i found about 200 tooth picks under the seats and in the center console, it was seriously like two big handfuls of them when i got them all out....a couple quarters, and a bunch of "acting and modeling" business cards from like 1988 in the console and map pocket..... the cards had some new york city address on it and most likely looked liked they were directed towards young girls.....
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88gtNewb Member
Posts: 922 From: Surrey, BC, Canada Registered: Aug 2004
i have found $15 in change in the center counsel, and $3 and a love letter in the sunvisor
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rogergarrison Member
Posts: 49601 From: A Western Caribbean Island/ Columbus, Ohio Registered: Apr 99
When I was working for a car dealer, we found a few grocery bags full of pot plants in the trunk of a trade in.
Oh yea, but not found in a car, but the guy who runs the car wash next door found a paper bag with $10,000 in cash while he was emptying the trash cans. He turned it in... ....figured it was a goofed up drug drop off deal.
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fierobrian Member
Posts: 2976 From: aurora il 60505 Registered: Sep 2003
in my 86 se i found a meat hook about 2 and a half feet long in the mesh on the back of the seat, and a cut pool clue on the driver's left side by the door and seat . but that is the only cool things out of 15 cars i have had . but did find over 10.00 in change in the shifter area , there was so much i coudn't shift gears