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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.
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.
nice score, that tape is super rare, easy couple hundred bucks
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 1st, 2017, 08:22 PM
