Hey there everyone,

Been having some fun taking back my LS1275 to bare metal and am now working on the insides. This morning I finally worked out how to get the seat belt mechanisms unbolted and removed (ie - pull out as much strap as possible to allow a racket in).

Anyhow, managed to find a gold earing and 76 cents in change. Don't know wear the gold earing came from as none of my girlfriends ever complained about missing any

Also have found lots of broken windscreen glass behind the dash - some to the pain of my fingers while poking around trying to loosen engine mount bolts.

Noticed that the seat belt mechanisms both had a hand written date of 28/6/78. Did Leyland write the date on these parts as they were installed into the shells or when they were received/inspected. According to the plate my LS1275 is dated as 78/8 manufacture.

So - what other interesting things have people found in there cars that they were not responsible for?

Cheers,
Birty

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Cheers,
Rob.

If you do a search, there is a story posted on here about someone finding a box of 6 vibrators/dildos under the seat of a car they just bought.

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"Life is not like a box of chocolates... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. Whatever you do today, may burn your arse tomorrow."

The wierdest thing that I have ever found is an old (AA) battery that had almost split apart, it was rusty and the amount of acid coming out - haven't found any $50 notes or anything yet...... BTW if you find any $50's there mine! Nah, just joking.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

i found a bullet casing and 1c in the moke

Not a mini, but I once had a Brock Commodore (VH). I had bought it secondhand from the holden dealer when the original owner traded it in. As it was a relatively small town (Bathurst), I happened to work at the same place as the guy who traded it in.

I then sold it to my neighbour a couple of years later and he found behind the dashboard an upopened pay packet containing nearly $1000 bucks when he was installing a new stereo, the pay packet was from the original owner. He'd obviously placed it up there and driven off and at some stage it had fallen down an airvent opening only to be rediscovered after my ownership when he decided to put a new CD player in.

He applied the finders keepers rule and neither shared it with me, or the original owner.
KB

Not a Mini either, but an imported 2 seater sports car from the USA. Lots of empty rifle shell casings and even some live ammo that had slipped under the seat cushions.

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Curly
'64 Cooper 'S' (Group Nb spec)
'67 Mini Marcos GT www.mm7056.wordpress.com

Don't you just love customs and their so-called quarantine inspections?

My Corona had three or four unused cigarettes, two used ones in the Ash-tray, three cigarette lighters, a man's belt, some drawing pins, several Yen coins and a packet of "Humding" brand throat lozenges inside it. All Japanese branded. Lots of dust too.

I paid Kiwi to clean it before the car was put on the ship! The engine bay and undercarriage was immaculate, but he inside was filthy.

Oh, and there was a dirty great sticker on the windscreen - QUARANTINE PASSED.

I guess I can't conmplain. They could have torn the car apart instead!

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

I found a packet of matches in Jenna
Old old old old... like same year as the car old.

I have them somewhere...

Oh, and how could I forget!!! Bog!!! Lots of the stuff and shelleys silicone and filler and crap too!

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Click here for the Turbo Conversion Thread!

from an earlier post where could jenna hide matches and there is no bog on her body

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busier than a 0ne legged man in a butt kicking competion

my lister bought an uld datto years ago well wen i say bought i mean traded it for a case of beer turns out after we cleaned out under the seats we found half dozen or so stubbies a few cans of coke and $24 in coins so she actually made a profit on buying the car

cheers bob

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1978 NUGGET GOLD 1275 LS

My brother got an old bag of dope in the boot of a Gemini Diesel (probably to make you think the car is going fast)

The date on the seat belt would be different from the build date on the plate because the plate is fitted when the car was ready to be delivered, not when the car was built.

I found a pipe (of the dope smokin variety), in amongst an unimaginable mess of french fries and other 'munchie' left overs under the seat of one of mine......

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1962 Morris 850.....with a 1310

1998 Toyota starlet.....161.1hp atw

my brothers car had an old tape cassette lodged in the rails for the seats of his car.......Norah jones stuffed the seat mechanism!!!

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00' Forester GT

In the Clubbie Kazjim and I named 'Druggie Clubbie' we found a syringe and some dodgy seeds

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No more Minis!......For now.

In the Sunshine :

fake fingernails, condom packet, 3 bucks, lots of maccas wrappers and thousands of redbacks.

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

All garage work involves equal measures of enthusiasm, ingenuity and a fair degree of irresponsibility.