Not sure if this question has been asked, but I would love to know what people have found in the cars when they have pulled them apart during restoration.
I found an old RAA card in the previous owners grandpa name on it tucked up under the dash. Helped me track down history of the car.

Cheers
Nat

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog!!

1976 Mini SS
1971 Mini Ute (Custom) - really hubby's but I will claim half
1976 Mini SS Shell
Oh and an 850 shell waiting for our dear son to start his resto!

About half a dozen .22 caliber bullets, 3.50 in old change and an unopened letter from 1987 telling the owner he had won 300 bucks...

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SooperDooperMiniCooperExpertEngineering

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

I was once stripping a Mini and when I pulled the back seats out I found an 18C Gold pendant.... No one claimed it ! Car was saved from the Crush any way. I bought it from a scrap merchant. Pendant was worth much more than what I paid for the car thank you very much. Finders Keepers Loosers weepers case.

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DID I MENTION THAT I AM THE BEST SUPPLIER FOR MINI ELECTRICAL PARTS AND REPAIRS?
"Let us remove your "SHORTS"

About 20 years ago I had a Mini Brought to me by a Car Yard as they wanted the Dash lights repaired for RWC. As I removed the Dash Card on the Right side I spotted a very old Yellowed looking Piece of paper screwed up in there which ended up being an envelope that someone had hidden many years before. It contained 16 Fiftty Dollar Notes. Geee we had a great night at the pub that day !

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DID I MENTION THAT I AM THE BEST SUPPLIER FOR MINI ELECTRICAL PARTS AND REPAIRS?
"Let us remove your "SHORTS"

I recently had a fuel tank out of a customers car which i could hear something floating around in. I ended up pulling a little finger doll of Ernie ( i think it was Ernie) and $1.50.

Lots of .22 cal in landrovers

couple of bags of dope in an old starlet

somones wedding photo in my elf - looks as old as the car!

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

Not in a car, but while demolishing the old chook shed at the back of our place shortly after we bought it, I discovered a glass jar with about $2500 in paper notes stashed behind the chopping block

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

10 Cigarette lighters in a Datsun 1200, inside the defroster ducting. Previous owner was a smoker and kept their lighter on the dash - as soon as they went round a corner the lighters must have slid down the defroster outlets and collected in the ducting. Still using the lighters for heatshrinking and other miscellaneous jobs in the garage!

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Dave - 64 Nurburg White Morris 850 & 67 Morris Mini Deluxe (Bro's Car)
Previous Rides - 62 Morris 850 (Sold '03 - Now 'Lulu-62') & 76 Clubman S (Sold '99 - SFW-863)
+ Too many other classics

a old coin a screw driver & a smiths rev counter in the rear pocket bin it works as well.

You'd really have to crane your neck to read it though.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

I found a bunch of mid 70's bank transaction receipts stuffed in the roof lining on the 850 van i had.

I generally find bog in them too

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Dean Hutton's first car was a Mini.

lol.. side swipe a few hitting 5000 revs

Not a mini, but a customer came in complaining his cd player would not work in his near new car. Found his kids had jammed about $2 of loose change and a VERY coarse sanding disc in there which was almost exactly the same size as a cd..... Pulled them out and it still worked! (suprisingly!)

My Corona Coupe arrived from Japan with:

- Several used cigarettes in the ashtray.
- A lace doily thingie over the rear seat back.
- Several cigarette lighters, yen coins and parking tickets under the seats and carpet
- A man's belt and a few drawing pins behind the rear seat back.

So much for cleaning fees and customs inspections!

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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

pulled apart my first mini to find original hand written receipt from purchase, user manual for the car and receipts for NRMA road side assistance dating from original date of purchase up until around 1998!

then tucked up under the lower dash rail wrapped up in some tissues a small jewlerry bag with a gold chain inside

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The BLUE BRIK