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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:19 pm 
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Lifted out the vinyl that lines the dash shelf in my 68 Mini, looks like its never been out.

Found a 1 cent coin and a 101 hollow point bullet.

Whats the most unexpected thing others have found?

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Pulled of the door trim on one of my early Minis and found a $50 note in the bottom of the door, really crispy but still good, must have been owned by one of those people that slide things in their window rubber gap, cos they can :roll:


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When I had my grunt delivered I rummaged around high and low, sat in the drivers seat going vroom, vroom, all that stuff, and found an americas cup edition coke can in the back. Empty of course!

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:51 pm 
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phillb wrote:


a 101 hollow point bullet.






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When i pulled out my heater I found confettie from some trickster that had stuffed it in there a very very long time ago. That really is the prank that lasts for years. Who ever used this as their wedding car would more than likely be grandparents now.

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i pulled the rear seat out of our clubman ,and found about half a dozen mouse traps???? How do you accidently get mouse traps under the rear seat?fortunatly there were no mouses :)

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The last Minimatic I bought (which had recently survived the big Glenorie bushfire) had a very dead rat under the driver's seat.
Not smelly though, it was dried out to blazes. :lol:

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phillb wrote:
Found a 1 cent coin


What year was the coin?


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I just pulled the dash cards out of my '64 Mini and found a six-pence coin (1956). So is my Mini worth more that yours?

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found a mummified rat that had taken up resedence behind the wooden dash


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when restoring my 65, cooper many years ago, I found a 65 sixpence under the trim in the l/r storage bin..... one side shiney & the other side red. Still have it for "LUCK" (sic)


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Once i found a seringe needle under the back seat of my old HG Premier.
Had a small feeling i'd find something Nasty after meeting the people i'd bought it off, And reading in the paper a few years before they used to run drugs with it!


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