I took my seats out last night to oil the seat adjustment springs. Under the carpet around the seats I found these treasure. I laughed at the lighter.

 

I bet at one time you or someone was looking for all that.

 

I was really surprised the 7/16 socket wasn't making a lot of noise.

 

Now, if you only knew where those bolts came from...

 

No doubt. I have found a few of those throughout my exploration of this car. Just hope nothing falls off when I am driving.

 

Never know what you will find in a 40-plus year old car when the rear seat and carpets are removed for the first time.

 

When I took the seats out of my '56, I found the original second set of keys.

 

Holy cow! That is awesome. My greatest find so far has been a second partial build sheet in one of the seats.

 

20 years ago I pulled my back seat in hope of finding a build sheet. Found it, but it was mostly flakes than powdered away in my hands. Along with numerous pens, pencils, straw wrappers, paperclips, odd screws, & such, I found this.



Threw it in my tool box and it's been there ever since.

 

I've pulled one rear seat that hadn't ever been out, and found dust and a build sheet.

 

Bought a Bronco 2 once for cheap found a new Gerber knife under the back seat floorboard. Knife was worth almost as much as what I paid for the truck.

 

nice score, that tape is super rare, easy couple hundred bucks

 

Cool! Since you pointed that out, and considering the tape broke and is wound up in the cassette, I'l let you have it for one-time-only price of $100 US shipped to your door !

 

I took my back seat out yesterday and all I found was seat material and rodent poop.

 

I found 10.00$ in change and a bag with white powder in it, the bag disintegrated when i moved it.

 

I found an 8-track (BTO) which I promptly placed in the dash unit, turned up the volume and blew a speaker

 

I got a dead mouse.

 

I got 4 dead mice and a lifetime of poop. That was in the front seat and headliner, haven't been rich or brave enough to do the back seat.

 

The most I've ever found is a couple of happy meal toys, although when I was a kid, I found an uncut Tiffany ignition key blank in a '71 Ninety-Eight Regency that Dad had as a company car.

 

Back in the '80s and '90s I was a stereo installer and we found things that beggar belief. We also found things that were kinda creepy. A co-worker found a 2 Karat engagement ring that he traded for one of his own to give his girlfriend. Another co-worker found a stash of cash totaling $450. These were in freshly purchased used vehicles so there was nothing involving the current owners.

I, myself never found anything quite as valuable. A few Happy Meal toys, lots of new and used condoms (everyone found these), lots of coins/loose change, tools of all description, firecrackers, even grass. Not marijuana, but actual growing grass. It was in a '72 Nova that had been damaged in the dust storm of '77. There was so much soil under the back seat that when the new owner pulled the rear seat and left it loose the grass seeds germinated.

One guy actually found a brown paper bag about 1/4 full of cash. It was in a 4-door base model Nova. The two guys the vehicle belonged to were largish brutes in cheap suits and sunglasses. Waaay too cliche' to be anything but mafia thugs. He put that brown paper bag back exactly how and where he found it!

The most fun we had was when we worked on the captured vehicles the local VICE dept. brought in. The cops would stay with us while we tore the vehicles apart and would let us keep the mundane things we found but there were times we found other stuff they would seize as evidence.

That job was never boring!

 

According to the literature for the Ninety-Eight Regency Tiffany's model, every key was supposedly registered with the Tiffany company so that if an owner lost their key, it would be replaced with a new Tiffany key.

That key you found as a kid would surely be sought after today by the current owner of a Ninety-Eight Regency Tiffany model who does not have the original keys. It was noted in a blog that Tiffany no longer has the list and cannot locate the key blanks.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot locate that key blank, either. I haven't seen it in probably 40 years or more.