Well i have already taken the LH sill of lizzie (1275LS) and it was
a little rough under there... today i took the RH one off and it
is damn near perfect underneath!! ( i took it off as i was thinking
there may be some nasty shite in there) but it turned out
to be good.. ANYWAYS in the sill i found $1.33 (yup a 2c and 1c coin as well)
and a hubba bubba wrapper!! hahaha

Al the coins are from the 80's so i guess it could be assuemd that is when she was
last on the road... but who knows..

but i was preety surprised at finding them in there!! anyone else found anyhting interestingunder there b4?

I was given a mini panel van that belonged to an electrician. He was a fairly untidy electrician and I found heaps of terminal clips and other electricians bits as well as some coins and things he seemed to drop.

Most interestingly - was the number of condoms I found hidden throughout the van. He was either eternally hopeful or had a mistress. Nobody else wou;d hide them all over the van. I am talking unused !!!!!

How do you know they were unused ? Hmmm, on second thoughts I don't want to know.

Yeeeeckkk

smithy

Back in my early mini days - a mate of mine and I used to goto the wreckers to see what we could find (vack in the days when the 12G295 heads were $50 I remember seeing one). My mate always used to go through cars (backs of seats etc) to see if he could find enough money for lunch..... and he always did we ate like kings after visiting wreckers.

I always threatened him tho that one day he will find he end of a finger or an eye or something ....... he slowed down on the money hunting after that - not sure why

Not a mini story but my 1st Car a 1981 VC Commodore, took the back seat out while replacing the carpet and found $4, Birthday list / shopping list, hair clips, lolly papers, n' other lil notes. So I'm guessing by what I found it was a girls car at some stage.

I bought an 850 mini few years ago, and while i was doing the clean up, I found "my first diary" so i took a read at it had address phone numbers etc. in it, so i gave them a call, and the diary belonged to the daughter of the first owner (this girl was 10 when writing the diary and remember the mini her mum had) they had the mini for 10 yrs, then the mini went to 3 other owners, They never removed the carpet in that time. SHE would have been 40 when i called.

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With my job of removing cars, i find all sorts of stuff in cars, i once found a paper $100 note taped under the rear set of a Falcon. But better, i picked up a barina from a cute young girl, & i discovered not 1 or 2, but 6 vibrators under the rear seat, so i took them back to her, you should have seen the look on her face, she said she had to hide them there so her parents would'nt find them, she put them straight under the seat of her new car.

I see her driving around every now & then, she always has a smile on her face, funnily enough.

Doogie

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clubmn thats an excellent find. a good way to find out the history of
the car.. did the lady ask for the diary backl??

HAHAHAA Doogie... can i have her number?

This isn't a Mini story, and it didn't happen to me, but I think it is a great story, and worth retelling.

I was photographing a 1952 VW Beetle for a VW magazine. The chap who owned it had stripped it and done a full resto on it.

When he pulled the rear door-cards out (the masonite bits, like in the rear pockets of a Mini) he found something very interesting.

VW used to use a black glue to hold the sound deadening mat to the body so it wouldn't move when the card was in place. When the sound mat was removed the glue had been painted on in the shape of a swastika. Remember, the VW was originally designed in Germany in the time of the Nazis, and this was just 7 years after the end of the war.

We will never know if this was done as a joke, or one worker's personal political statement.

However, the new owner left the glue on there as it was and has the mat and card in the car loose, so it can be removed to see this oddity.

Cheers, Watto.

I bought a VH Brock commodore off the local Holden dealer in Bathurst after the original owner traded it on a (then) new VL turbo. I knew the original owner from work so went and bought the car off the dealer. I kept it for a few years then sold it to my next door neighbour when I was about to go backpacking around Europe for two years.

After he had had it for only a few weeks, he tells me he was fishing around in the dash installing a new stereo and finds an unopened pay packet from the original owner (this was back in the days when you got paid cash in an envelope for you youngins). Our guess was Mark must have thrown it on top of the dash and driven away and it's slipped down through a gap or air vent or something. And no, the neighbour didn't offer to either share it, or return it to the original owner.
Unfortunately, I was always happy with the quality of the radio/cassette so never considered installing one of them new fangled CD players.
KB

A few years ago I imported a Fiat 124 Spider from California. Stripping it back to a bare shell uncovered a swag of empty 9mm and .45 calibre cartridge cases as well as a few live bullets. I'll bet it had an interesting history

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hahahhahhaha, look on her face woulda been gold... how could she forget she left them in there??...poor girl musta got lonely

I do some work with a local mechanic who works from home. We are constantly amazed that despite gun control and prison sentences for getting it wrong, the number of vehicles he services with live shells rolling around the floor and weapons with rounds in the mags. Only a foo lpops one up the breech before it is needed.

Mostly they want it with them in case they see a pig or a fox on the road near home.