check your sales carefully
August 12th, 2012, 02:12 PM
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check your sales carefully
My son and I were ripping out the seats from the 67 F85 he bought last spring from 66400 in Austin. We got the seats out and had pulled the rear quarter interior covers out when my son asked me about something he saw inside the panel. I looked in and there was a big bundle wrapped in a black plastic trash bag. I pulled it out and unwrapped it. There was a bag that had a bank name on it and a bunch of papers inside. We opened it hoping there was a bundle of cash in it but it was only a stash of receipts where the car had been serviced all the way back to 1972. Still don't know why someone would wrap those up and go to the trouble to put them inside the panel before selling the car. It had been owned by a Blanch Crenshaw in Modesto, Ca. Has the old Ca license plate number on most of them. Maybe someday he will try to get some history on the car. That bundle could have been anything, money, dope, etc.
August 12th, 2012, 05:24 PM
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My past experience when I bought my used 67 Cutlass Supreme so many years ago was that the dealers took all of that stuff out and trashed it. Hiding it was the only way to possibly keep the receipts available to the new owner. The first guy that had my Cutlass stuffed them under the spare tire. When I found them and called him, that was the story he told.sdcarguy
August 12th, 2012, 05:39 PM
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My past experience when I bought my used 67 Cutlass Supreme so many years ago was that the dealers took all of that stuff out and trashed it. Hiding it was the only way to possibly keep the receipts available to the new owner. The first guy that had my Cutlass stuffed them under the spare tire. When I found them and called him, that was the story he told.sdcarguy
And he may have known that a restorer will take those panels off eventually, so he actually did a good deed here!
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lol But seriously just the other day I was cleaning out a minivan I had bought at an auction and found a few decent size trees under the back seat where the seat connects to the car. It's amazing what you will find in your car if you look hard enough 
August 14th, 2012, 06:25 AM
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The prior owner moved to Austin from Cal, car was one family owned. Last Cal license plate was UNNVITED. I have a stack of later receipts from 97?-04? if you want them. Think I can find phone # for last owner id you want it. Henry
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Creepy. Found a small gold wedding ring under the back seat of a 53 Hudson once, nothing special except a matching finger was still attached
! I didn't look for the PO as I didn't think she would still want it. In fact I didn't want it ether but I did sell it as scrap minus the finger a few years later.Car was not in a wreck so I didn't know any of the story....Tedd
! I didn't look for the PO as I didn't think she would still want it. In fact I didn't want it ether but I did sell it as scrap minus the finger a few years later.Car was not in a wreck so I didn't know any of the story....Tedd
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