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
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.
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
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.
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve
Useful!!!
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.
Quote from: kingchief on April 06, 2020, 10:43:18 AM
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve
Hope it was not «signed»!
Quote from: 68blk500c 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.
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.
Quote from: Special Ed on April 06, 2020, 08:50:54 AM... 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.
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
Quote from: 98SVT - was 06GT on April 06, 2020, 04:50:47 PM
Quote from: Special Ed on April 06, 2020, 08:50:54 AM... 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.
I found this one under the pax door seal of my 67. Maybe the same guy!
Ron
Quote from: rbarkley on April 06, 2020, 10:34:00 PM
I found this one under the pax door seal of my 67. Maybe the same guy!
Ron
I love it...so cool
Quote from: kingchief on April 06, 2020, 10:43:18 AM
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve
Maybe not concours, but date code correct!
My 69 coupe (small block) been in the family since 1972, found no build sheet, found little under the carpets. Some change but was probably dropped out of my dad's pocket, moms purse, sisters purse.... The funny one was when I took apart the rear end and there was this small red plastic cap in the gear lube! I called a buddy who worked for decades for Ford. Yep, he knew what it was. When they changed out the lube for filling the rear ends, they often ignored the step to "twist off the plastic cap and discard". He figured the coupe was on the line when they were changing out the lube and they just shot that cap into the rear end. Interesting thing was that it wasn't torn up much at all.
Now the 1970 Mach, 428 CJ....Found under the front passenger, a baggie with spare screws, wire clips, a door switch even. Under the rear seat carpet by the tunnel, a good build sheet, parts of a build sheet under the carpet at drivers seat. But the funny thing was, well remember 1969 and 1970, when everyone was going to the craft store, buying up these little beads and stringing our own "hippie" beads? There must have been a few hundred under that back seat. Now just what do you suppose was going on in the back seat that some hippie beads got busted in the back seat? I'll wait....LOL
"Workin' on those night moves" . ::)
They were "love" beads
Quote from: JD on April 07, 2020, 07:19:27 PM
They were "love" beads
Yep. Where I was (AZ at the time...and MT where "hippie" was a bad word) they were "hippie" by "the squares" and "Love Beads" by us young-uns.
That condom is a cool relic, from back in the days that men had to go to the pharmacist and embarrassingly (or proudly) ask for one.
In my area u could buy them in mens room of local bar machine that takes quarters (that's what I was told anyway)!
Pulled my passenger seat only to look up in the bolt hole and see this tag wired into the sheetmetal
Quote from: Jbarela on April 20, 2020, 02:22:06 AM
Pulled my passenger seat only to look up in the bolt hole and see this tag wired into the sheetmetal
Looks like a shipping tag. Best I've made from ones like this and what is printed on them a tag was attached to one of many (likely one on the top layer) arranged for shipping on a pallet or other holder. It identifies the part, number in the shipment and other information for shipping and inventory purposes. They have been found in a number of colors and printed on heavy paper with a thin metal wire to hold it to the part.
Cool find
I know this topic is old but....
While disassembling CSX2416 for it's restoration I found a 1964 penny in the bottom of the pedal box.
Lots of pop rivet stems in mine when I pulled the back seat bottom.
Found a 68 penny stuck in the sound deadner in the drivers door of 1588
So no pennies when I took part of my interior apart back in the late seventies, but I did find stuffed into the heater box a medicine pill bottle with some organic matter in it and a small alligator clip. That might explain why the front right side suspension was totally trashed when I bought the car in 1977...
Quote from: kingchief on April 06, 2020, 10:43:18 AM
Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve
Machine dispensed (gas station) condom under 68 Cougar console. Horse track betting slips under back seat of Mustang. Gas station finds: ball bearings rolling around bottom of Cadillac door, metal can openers welded to bottom of Vega, numerous nuts laying in Cheby air cleaner, written in chalk on bottom of 70s Dodge - F... Dodge.