Re: Cool Stuff found in Cars

by Marshall.Pixley on Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:34 pm

a brand new painless wiring harness, and of all things a bag of herbs (not even the illegal kind, it was just ur average garden variety parsley!)

by jerry46765 on Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:07 pm

>>>the person that owned it before me mighta needed what I found to prevent his 3 kids... >>>

Haha, you can say 'condom.' I think this show is rated PG-13.

Or from the Blues Brothers, 'prophylactic' would work too.

by IndyG3 on Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:28 pm

jerry46765 wrote:>>>the person that owned it before me mighta needed what I found to prevent his 3 kids... >>>

Haha, you can say 'condom.' I think this show is rated PG-13.

Or from the Blues Brothers, 'prophylactic' would work too.

I know, I just think it's fun to use creative ways of saying things like condom. Plus it makes me sound smarter lol!

by dhw3971 on Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:27 am

After I re-bought my '75 station wagon last summer I discovered newspapers from 1989 that I had stuck under the passenger side carpets in a meager attempt to cover the rotting floorboard.

by Mcarlo77 on Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:43 pm

Okay kiddies...one more bedtime story and then I'm done! This one is called "Divine Intervention"!

Cabin fever had me out to one of the salvage yards about three weeks ago; despite there still being quite a bit of snow on the ground. Wasn't really expecting to accomplish much in the way of pulling parts, so I only threw a few basic tools and sockets in my smaller tool bag and left the rest in my truck in the parking lot. Wandered back into the yard maybe 1/2 mile and, as expected, was just too much snow to even access most cars. When satisfied that there wasn't much more I could see out there and, being tired and cold from walking in knee deep snow, I decided it was time to head back. At about that time, I remembered the floor-shift, tilt strg column in a '76 Century I had wanted to pull before winter had set in. Stopped at the car and, after pushing and kicking the snow away, was able to get inside and open the hood. However, I soon realized that I didn't have the correct socket to drop the strg column inside the car; nor, the correct socket to loosen the rag joint bolt under the hood. "Okay", I mumbled, "will get it next time out". Walked about 100 yds back towards the office when I spotted a '71 Grand Prix that had recently arrived. Always interested in exploring new arrivals, I wandered over to take a look around. While shuffling through items laying on the front floor area, lo and behold, there was a 12 mm socket sitting there...all by itself. I'm thinking, "how weird is this...it just might fit that rag joint bolt over on the Century". Still, I would need the 9/16" socket in order to drop the column. Oh well. Went back to scavenging inside the back seat area, when I find another lone socket laying back there. Can you believe it...a 9/16"?! By this time, I'm thinking I'm in some kind of Twilight Zone episode. These were the only two sockets I found in there! So, back to the Century... and yes, the 12mm worked perfectly; enabling me to pull that strg column out without having to trek 1/2 mile back to the office parking lot and then back to the Century in the damp cold to grab my own tools. THE END!