Have you ever found anything in your C-3?
12-09-2010, 09:11 PM
#41
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When I tore into my 70's doors to clean the lock mechanisms, I found a for sale sign that someone had posted on the window. Nothing really special like that, but.......when I bought the car, I purchased it from a man about 60 miles north of where I live and he said he had the car for about 12 years. Never did tell me where he got the car. The window sticker was from a little town about 10 miles west of me. I still have the sign with the telephone number, I have thought about calling that number a million times.
12-09-2010, 09:33 PM
#42
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When I tore into my 70's doors to clean the lock mechanisms, I found a for sale sign that someone had posted on the window. Nothing really special like that, but.......when I bought the car, I purchased it from a man about 60 miles north of where I live and he said he had the car for about 12 years. Never did tell me where he got the car. The window sticker was from a little town about 10 miles west of me. I still have the sign with the telephone number, I have thought about calling that number a million times.
12-10-2010, 09:50 AM
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Haven't found anything in my C3. In other cars I found a set of PT Cruiser keys, numerous pens, Key chain to a 75 Tbird which was another car the PO was selling that I actually almost bought as well, coins, tools, etc.
12-10-2010, 09:59 AM
#44
Melting Slicks
I also found my blue factory door sticker in my map pocket while I was cleaning up my interior. It must have fallen off and put in there by a PO. Now its back where it belongs! 
12-10-2010, 12:09 PM
#45
Drifting
Did you return them? I'm sure he probably got a replacement set anyway.
Haven't found anything in my C3. In other cars I found a set of PT Cruiser keys, numerous pens, Key chain to a 75 Tbird which was another car the PO was selling that I actually almost bought as well, coins, tools, etc.
Haven't found anything in my C3. In other cars I found a set of PT Cruiser keys, numerous pens, Key chain to a 75 Tbird which was another car the PO was selling that I actually almost bought as well, coins, tools, etc.
In the file of reciepts he gave me, I found a stack of snapshots from the 70's of naked women (and, unfortunately, men too) at a nude beach.
12-10-2010, 11:19 PM
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I found an unopened pack of Players filter cigarettes. They didn't have any pictures of diseased lungs, etc. so I think they were there for many, many years. We're thinking of selling them on Ebay as a collectors nostalgia item.
12-11-2010, 07:48 AM
#47
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When I bought this 81 4 yrs ago I had the drivers door off the car for hindge replacement. In the drip rail area where the fender and widsheild post meet I saw what looked like the tip of a key. Sure enought. The factory original ignition key for this car. Does not have any wear to it so must have been lost early on.
12-11-2010, 09:09 AM
#49
I bought my 69 vert from a 60 year old guy in Waldorf Md. He had to buy it under is mothers name for insurance purposes. When I first brought it home, we cleaned out all the compartments, took out seats etc. I found a speeding ticket from 1970, a late payment notice in 71 and a vote for John F Kennedy button. All of which are in the documentation for the car now.
12-11-2010, 10:42 AM
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I found the origonal T Top bags that the seller said he was going to keep but since he lives in Texas and I live in Mississippi he hasn't said anything. Also found the origonal automatic shifter ball. He had a wood one on it. And a broken corvette key chain.
12-13-2010, 06:56 AM
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I found in my '80:
The original T Top bags.
A bit of mouse poop.
About 2 bucks in change.
An 8 track copy of Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" sticking out of the deck.
This one is a bit weird.
A Lotus Europa matchbox car. The reason that this is weird is that I actually owned one of those a while back. A real one that is.
The original T Top bags.
A bit of mouse poop.
About 2 bucks in change.
An 8 track copy of Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" sticking out of the deck.
This one is a bit weird.
A Lotus Europa matchbox car. The reason that this is weird is that I actually owned one of those a while back. A real one that is.
12-13-2010, 05:32 PM
#54
Things I found in my 1974 upon interior teardown:
T-top straps
About $3 in change
I think a old for sale sign
A ton of old cigar boxes, with cigars in them (cigar smoke all over interior pieces, I scrubbed them up and they're good now)
Many old cassettes
Pair of Sunglasses
Mouse nests
Screws/Bolts
A couple of random pieces of metal/plastic
A gold bracelet, one that would have been worn in the 70's!
Will
T-top straps
About $3 in change
I think a old for sale sign
A ton of old cigar boxes, with cigars in them (cigar smoke all over interior pieces, I scrubbed them up and they're good now)
Many old cassettes
Pair of Sunglasses
Mouse nests
Screws/Bolts
A couple of random pieces of metal/plastic
A gold bracelet, one that would have been worn in the 70's!
Will
12-13-2010, 09:24 PM
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Oh...a fun one...I have owned several vettes and to limit it to what I have found in C3's
Dead mice
Dead bugs
Dead lizards
Mouse/rat nests
Nuts, bolts, screws, Misc hardware.
Tools
Wristwatch...
Ring,
Chains
Coins, game room tokens,
Condoms yea, more than once.
Contact/****/jac mags
Rolling papers, roach clip
Chap stick, perfume, various make up,
Just in the silver tuna, my 69,
Was an umbrella, five new spark plus one new A arm bushing,
A small base ball hat from old navy, a pair of cheesy sunglasses and a pair of tighty whities,
One small sock that I used for checking the oil,
two home speakers from radio shack circa 1977 lots of change,
Under the drivers seat was a rat/mouse nest with bones of the critter.
Dead mice
Dead bugs
Dead lizards
Mouse/rat nests
Nuts, bolts, screws, Misc hardware.
Tools
Wristwatch...
Ring,
Chains
Coins, game room tokens,
Condoms yea, more than once.
Contact/****/jac mags
Rolling papers, roach clip
Chap stick, perfume, various make up,
Just in the silver tuna, my 69,
Was an umbrella, five new spark plus one new A arm bushing,
A small base ball hat from old navy, a pair of cheesy sunglasses and a pair of tighty whities,
One small sock that I used for checking the oil,
two home speakers from radio shack circa 1977 lots of change,
Under the drivers seat was a rat/mouse nest with bones of the critter.
12-13-2010, 10:12 PM
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In my 73....a plastic promo key chain shaped like a tire, a few coins from various years, and mouse nest in the rear cross member.
mouse looks like a 79 or 80...it's all there and restorable. Head matches the frame with one small hole in the body.
mouse looks like a 79 or 80...it's all there and restorable. Head matches the frame with one small hole in the body.
12-13-2010, 10:31 PM
#57
Since I'm the original owner on my 69, about 2 years after I bought the car I found a lunch bag and an empty orange drink carton on top of the jack. Probably from the production line.
12-14-2010, 06:20 PM
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12-14-2010, 06:29 PM
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12-14-2010, 06:47 PM
#60
Le Mans Master
When I tore into my 70's doors to clean the lock mechanisms, I found a for sale sign that someone had posted on the window. Nothing really special like that, but.......when I bought the car, I purchased it from a man about 60 miles north of where I live and he said he had the car for about 12 years. Never did tell me where he got the car. The window sticker was from a little town about 10 miles west of me. I still have the sign with the telephone number, I have thought about calling that number a million times.
Almost the same exact story with my 69. I'll call the number, someday!