for years I've been doing a thing where I take a knife and cut the bottom back part of the seats(front seats) Once pulled out 450 dollars in silver dollar coins from em.
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for years I've been doing a thing where I take a knife and cut the bottom back part of the seats(front seats) Once pulled out 450 dollars in silver dollar coins from em.
Never found any money, just a trunk full of new power tools.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronny
We changed out current coins a few years ago, now all the coins I find are the old unusable ones.
Thou' heres a funny story.
I had a Mazda Capella, it was a 'Jap import'. We import used Jap cars & re license them for NZ.
The passengers seat never moved much forward & back, it was never comfortable.
One day, with a friends Japanese student in the back seat & me in the passengers seat, I used all of my weight back & forth full on untill something gave & it returned to its normal adjustment.
I look down & see something, so i grab it & lift it up untill we can see it.
Its a Japanese parking meter coin, musta been in there for 14 years... We nearly wet ourselves larffin.
I once found 3k worth of horribly made counterfeit 100$ stashed in the headliner of a car in the junkyard. When you touched them the ink rubbed right off and all the serial numbers were the same.
I really wish it was genuine money though. I was insanely disappointed when I realized they were some ****ty fakes!
I usually dont look for money because i just feel like its a waste of my precious time. But then again theres a lot of things that i should do when it comes to scrapping that i dont, oh well thats just how it goes i guess.
I used to work at a dealership detailing used cars...usually the money that was in the open was taken by the salesmen or techs who saftied the cars...then I got to them...busted out my 3/8 impact, and zipped out the front seats to hand scrub the carpet underneath...and reap the spare change nobody else would dig for...once pulled close to $5 in change out of a VW Jetta...I never found a whole bunch, but enough to keep a nice piggy bank on my bench and never have to use my own money on the vending machines...
I actually got happier finding parts in cars that people traded in and I cleaned up for them to go straight to auction...found oil filters, relays, tools (cheap hand tools, but tools all the same), cell phones, portable cd players, knick knacks...and those nice headlight bulbs that are $10-$15 a piece at the parts store.
Once found an EXPENSIVE ring, under the spare tire in the trunk...kinda thought about pawning it, but then my better side kicked my evil sides a**, turned the ring in, woman shows up next day happier than a pig in crap and hands me a $50 Best Buy giftcard...can't argue with that.
The van I drive now and have been driving for 2 years doesn't have a radio. Went to the yard and got one. Got under the dash to put it in and found a five dollar bill and opened pack of smokes. Tossed the smokes and got lunch.
I'd say that is the most I've found in a car.
$8 cash in the ash tray of a 93 mazda protege. tons of spare change in other cars but only a dollar or two in each car if any. I get tons of cd players and cheap tools/tire irons, oil, tranny fluid, washer fluid etc.
Wasn't scrappin a car, but bad at the junk yard pulling an ashtray assembly for a 99 Taurus I was selling (pain in the ass to get out) this thing wouldn't budge..so my frustration got the better of me, I leaned the seat back and kicked the crappy out of it! Lol, well the assembly came lose and moeny went everywhere!!
Needless to say I was pumped, turned out to be mostly
Ones but $65 total..so yeah I was happy!
That reminds me. When my dad passed away 6 years ago moma sent his little Toyota p/u over here. Took me 5 years to do anything with it. As I was going through it I found 2 of his old Swisher Sweets Cigars. Individually wrapped. Well, I kept em and that night I lit one up. Brought back so many great memories of him and I and all the good times we had. Best **** cigar I ever smoked. Gonna save the other one till next Fathers Day and smoke it with him at the graveyard. That's the best find in an automobile I've ever made.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdahoScrapper
Have to cherish every moment of it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by skylinejackjr
my uncle had just got paid and had cashed his monthly check and was about to go hit up all his utilities etc to pay his monthly bills. he needed to stop at the junkyard to grab a part really quick. got there got the part and walked to the counter. reaches for his wallet to pay and dang it fell under that car he was under. he ran back to the car and what do you know, wallet is there empty. it was a rough couple months for him after that.
Theres been a couple of cars in NZ that after a accident, a big bagga gold coins fell out from under the dash...
i know this thread is about money but i didn t want to start a new one. today we scrapped the junkiest honda accord you have ever seen, i may miss something but ill try to get it all.
half in break over bar
grease gun with grease
2 new quarts of power steering fluid
52 cents
a new never opened 24 ct crayons
3 cell phones (they must have know we started saving the stuff) :)
a roll of paper towels
a phillips screwdriver
a slime tire guage with magnet
ice scraper
for whatever reason 2 to 3 lbs of melted lead in the passenger floorboard
2 pairs of channellocks
50 to 60 alum cans
a pair of jumper cables
a boss cd player in the dash
couple of bungee straps
a black sharpie
rubber mallet
a welding hammer
that may have been it ill edit if i forgot something my partner had the cat, radiator and the battery off before i was finished digging thru the car
kinda odd stuff this was the biggest variety i think we have found. we always find some change , a few loose tools, fluids are common also just wondering what the rest of you have found
just remembered a can of spray paint used to cover rust still new
do you guys ever rebuild these cars and resell them? if so, that explains why all the cars in Va never have the tire irons, jacks, or any change in them, lol
we stopped keeping the tire irons probably 20 cars ago, we will keep a 4way tho, and the jack it just depends if we think we will use it or not , change we got a 44oz cup over half full just from cars saving it up till its full and we gonna eat something nicer than fast food that day :)
Back in the 80's I cleaned out cars for an uncle who had a small used car dealership. I got paid $3 per hour and got to keep what I found. My most surpising find 8 dollars in change and a snubnose .38 out from under the backseat of a Bonneville. I also found numerous pot pipes, drug paraphernalia, lighters and pocket knives.
Best score I ever had was a $60 Matador Wagon that was an ex-forest service patrol vehicle, it had secret compartment by the spare tire well that held a gov. issue .38 (never fired) and a really nice set of Craftsman tools(also gov. issue), and $18 in quarters out of the bench seat. Car probably changed hands 4-5 times with the goodies undetected.
that one will be hard to beat
Bought a 72 Caprice as a driver a few years back. Over 10 bucks in change, brass knuckles, Gerber boot knife some dope pipes and other misc under the back seat. Worked in a service station until the early 90's went in and under the seats on every car I had time to. Endless list of stuff and lots of change and bills over the years.
is'nt that theftQuote:
Originally Posted by bejak
Found 22 dollars in an old dryer one time. Thats right were talken cars. sorry!
when i was a kid i use to go out in the junkyard to search the cars to have money lol used to find everything ppls sin cards money u name it probably found it . lately sense i starting scrapping cars my last one i found a bunch of euros
Guess I Made myself look like the bad guy. Made many people happy returning lost wallets check books credit cards watches jewelry etc. Stuff I kept was under back seats with the gummy bears and moldy French fries. We detailed cars and this was part of the service for odor removal.
i found over $40 in a car my friend was cleaning out for a friend of his, and i spent it on 2 sets of strings
What a waste, you could have bought a TV,,,Quote:
i found over $40 in a car my friend was cleaning out for a friend of his, and i spent it on 2 sets of strings
Nice story, thanx for sharing. Good ol' dad eh buddy! :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by skylinejack
Hehe, well PT, looking for and picking up money, to me anyway, is Not a waste of my time. As a matter of fact I taught both of my children soon after they learned to walk, how to "eyeball" the ground, where ever we went. Believe it or not, once they got going at it, they were averaging 6 to 8 or 9 coins daily on a mile long walk to the closest mall and back. I taught them that it was a skill that they could utilize their whole life and those lost pennies and the other coins they'd find, all add up. They could count to a hundred, using their very own found coins, long before they went to kinder-garden. :) To this day, I'll still somehow find the time (a second or three) to scoop a penny up off the sidewalk as I'm passing by anyway. The squatting or bending involved while retrieving that cent, adds to my mini-multi exercise program for the day and helps keep me fairly fit. Anyway, each to his/her own, but wanted to share my Canadian 2 cents here in Ronny's thread. :) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by Ptscrapper
That's neat stuff Wes, I did similar in my late teens. Scrapyards used to let you tour around looking for your own parts back then but I'd be check'n ashtrays and the floor and any spaces between the seat and the tranny cover, under all the seats and then I'd jam my skinny hands into the space where the back of the back seat (in bench seat models back then) meets the seat of the back seat. Found a gold wedding band in one of the first cars I ever searched. That kinda hooked me on car searching. ;) lbQuote:
Originally Posted by wescrapmetal
I actually found $21 of my own money that I dropped between the seats and center console of my own car that I had to scrap after it got totaled. Over the years, loose change would fall from my pocket into the gap between the seat and console. Sometimes I even would drop it in the gap in an attempt to put it in the utility tray between the seats.
Then after the accident, I got a nice settlement check and bought the car back from the insurance company for $100 to reclaim all of the new parts that I put on it. I ended up selling the seats in the process and once I got that driver's seat off, I could see where all the change went.
$500 found under the dash of an 86 olds hoopty car. it was obviously drug money so I of course did the proper thing and tuned it in, not:
I average about $5 per vehicle, sometimes more sometimes less, but its usually the other stuff i find thats worth than the money like tools and other items left behind, ive found $100 worth of scrap/items in a car. It was loaded to the hilt with trash and construction waste in the back of an suv. I kept sifting thru it and finding copper wire, brass, copper pipe and other misc items / tools.
My wife found a $100 bill while stripping out a car for demolition derby. Same car also had a Cartier (FAKE) watch.