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Jbarela

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Concours Lincoln penny?
« on: April 06, 2020, 01:46:21 AM »
Tearing down my 65 fastback since the shelby is done. Pulled the door glass tonight and low and behold, inside the driverside door in the very corner crevice i found a very nice patina 1964 penny that I am assuming a worker threw in there. So if it left the factory with the penny in the door should I put it back to be concourse correct?  :D

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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2020, 08:50:54 AM »
I found a 69 quarter by shifter area under carpet of my 69 purple Shelby and have found all sorts of odd things under carpet paper cups etc . A guy told me he had a hump under his carpet and when he removed it there was a smashed pop can in that spot but the best story I got was a guy finding a nickel bag of weed under his carpet!! Ford workers used paper water cups in the plant for workers and they had many slogans wrote on them over the years as I got about 2 different ones from the Dearborn plant worker that ended up in lunchboxes. They had different colors with different writings and the smashed cup I found under my Shelby carpet was the suggestion program says if u had a good idea to help assembly line in any way u got a bonus.
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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2020, 09:13:24 AM »
When I restored my 69 Mach SCJ (1986) I removed original interior and found an assortment of Mexican currency and funny looking cigarettes under rear seat/trunk,but best of all was a SECOND headliner installed with access near rear window.....if cars could talk  :P

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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2020, 10:27:04 AM »
I have a baggie with the items found in our '68 Shelby tear down, which include coins, hairpins, a comb, a matchbook, and a parking violation citation, plus various nuts and bolts, screws and clips.  Thank God the build sheet survived waded up in a ball stuffed up in a corner to the driver's seat.

The '65 GT tear down in the mid-eighties produced a foil packaged condom slipped under the carpet.

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« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2020, 10:43:18 AM »
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!

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« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2020, 11:41:55 AM »
Useful!!!

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« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2020, 11:43:28 AM »
Being in the auto repair industry 50+ years I have come across all kinds of stuff when removing seats, carpets, trim panels and upholstery. Now days I mostly find nasty food remains, dried up beverages, hair ties, small toys, pens and some coins. It is very rare that I would find any spare parts from the assembly line in a vehicle built in the last 25 years. Working on vehicles built in the 60's and 70's though yielded a treasure trove of spares parts. All kinds of clips, screws, rivets, nuts, bolts and other miscellaneous small parts were found in almost every vehicle you worked on.
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« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2020, 02:27:01 PM »
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve

Hope it was not «signed»!

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Re: Concours Lincoln penny?
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2020, 03:50:59 PM »
I have a baggie with the items found in our '68 Shelby tear down, which include coins, hairpins, a comb, a matchbook, and a parking violation citation, plus various nuts and bolts, screws and clips.  Thank God the build sheet survived waded up in a ball stuffed up in a corner to the driver's seat.

The '65 GT tear down in the mid-eighties produced a foil packaged condom slipped under the carpet.

That sounds familiar Don. I have a small box of items collected out of my car during tear down. Most are unrelated to the car. Not sure why I still have them.
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« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2020, 04:50:47 PM »
... the smashed cup I found under my Shelby carpet was the suggestion program says if u had a good idea to help assembly line in any way u got a bonus.
My uncle ran the Cleveland engine plant. He got the max award from the program. It was based on a percentage of amount saved in first year. He got 25 grand for suggesting they shouldn't paint under the vinyl tops.
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Re: Concours Lincoln penny?
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2020, 06:46:56 PM »
Back in 1986 while disassembling the interior of our 69 mach 1, I lifted the original(great condition BTW) carpet and found a Ford brake spoon on the passenger side. ;D

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« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2020, 06:49:50 PM »
... the smashed cup I found under my Shelby carpet was the suggestion program says if u had a good idea to help assembly line in any way u got a bonus.
My uncle ran the Cleveland engine plant. He got the max award from the program. It was based on a percentage of amount saved in first year. He got 25 grand for suggesting they shouldn't paint under the vinyl tops.
Wow, 25K back then pretty close to 160K today.  What a bonus!!!

Now I used 1970 as the year.

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« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2020, 10:34:00 PM »
I found this one under the pax door seal of my 67.  Maybe the same guy!

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« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2020, 10:45:45 PM »
I found this one under the pax door seal of my 67.  Maybe the same guy!

Ron

I love it...so cool

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« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2020, 01:31:27 PM »
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve

Maybe not concours, but date code correct!