Oddest object found in a car.

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

How about a scared stiff year old Tonkinese kitten sitting on the
transmission of a 1999 New Yorker that just came off the Hwy 401 after a
70 mile drive?
We still have the little darling.

Or how about a can of beer inside the tire of a brand new car. Had a real
bad shake that just would NOT balance out.

The 401, 'eh'? Whereabouts?

 

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

Well, in my first car, a lovely cream colored '77 Plymouth Volarie with
the optional vinyl top, I once found a man in a parking garage going
through my ashtray for loose coin. He didn't notice me so I just waited
patiently for a minute while he finished up and went on his way, then got
in and drove home. Does that count?

~Brian

I'm surprised he even bothered with a Volare!

 

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

Delicious thread, Carl!

My first car was a used Nash sedan, about 1950, notorious for having front
seats that would lie back all the way, making a perfect bedroom away from
home.

The previous owner must have made some appropriate use of this feature,
because I found a brassiere in the car soon after acquiring it. What was
strange, however, was that the brassiere was in the engine compartment
behind the radiator! Go figure --

Ben

The AMC Pacer would do the same thing. My roomate in school had one...

"Can I borrow the Pacer tonight?"
"Heavy date, eh?"

 

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

Perhaps the breast they could do in a pinch.

<GROAN>

 

[clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada]

The 401, 'eh'? Whereabouts?

Waterloo from Oakville

 

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

Waterloo from Oakville

Oh. Only been out that way once, to Kitchener.

 

[Rick Courtright]

I can't compete..but along the animal theme... I was getting small > pieces of fluff blowing about with the heater fan in my Loyale... > investigation found a large nest of mice in a nook in the back of the > car.

Hi,

Is there something about Loyales and mice?

When I got my '90, it had been sitting for a while. I found a mouse nest
(minus mouse) under the back seat. It took a bit of cleaning to get the
smell out...

Then I started under the hood to see what was there, what wasn't.
Previous owner had dropped the cap for the coolant reservoir and it got
stuck between the tank and sheet metal. So rather than retrieve it,
someone just put a piece of aluminum foil over the opening. Since I had
to remove the tank to get to the cap, I turned it upside down to drain
and clean it.

A piece of pink material came out that looked like faded electrical wire
insulation. I pulled on it. POP! Out came the mouse I hadn't
found--right there on the other end of the tail I was pulling! FWIW,
ethylene glycol is apparently a decent preservative...

Rick

 

[Chicobiker]

A piece of pink material came out that looked like faded electrical wire

insulation. I pulled on it. POP! Out came the mouse I hadn't
found--right there on the other end of the tail I was pulling! FWIW,
ethylene glycol is apparently a decent preservative...

I wonder if there is something about coolant that mice like.

At my work, we parked a cube truck at a worksite for a couple of weeks
as a storage shed and indoor working area. One day we went to move
the truck to a different location and found a dead mouse on the
passenger floor and a pool of coolant. The mouse chewed into the
heater core. It must look like cool-aid to the mice!

 

[John O]

I wonder if there is something about coolant that mice like.

At my work, we parked a cube truck at a worksite for a couple of weeks
as a storage shed and indoor working area. One day we went to move
the truck to a different location and found a dead mouse on the
passenger floor and a pool of coolant. The mouse chewed into the
heater core. It must look like cool-aid to the mice!

Pets eat the stuff too. Apparently it's sweet to their taste.

-John O

 

[clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada]

I wonder if there is something about coolant that mice like.

Not just mice.
Ethylene Glycol is SWEET and attracts many animals. It is also
EXTREMEY poisonous.

 

[ziggy99]

My cars tend to sit for a while as I use public transport or the
motorbike to go to work.

The last two acquired ants' nests; one of them moved house with me.

 

[coolate]

Hi,

Is there something about Loyales and mice?

When I got my '90, it had been sitting for a while. I found a mouse nest
(minus mouse) under the back seat. It took a bit of cleaning to get the
smell out...

Then I started under the hood to see what was there, what wasn't.
Previous owner had dropped the cap for the coolant reservoir and it got
stuck between the tank and sheet metal. So rather than retrieve it,
someone just put a piece of aluminum foil over the opening. Since I had
to remove the tank to get to the cap, I turned it upside down to drain
and clean it.

A piece of pink material came out that looked like faded electrical wire
insulation. I pulled on it. POP! Out came the mouse I hadn't
found--right there on the other end of the tail I was pulling! FWIW,
ethylene glycol is apparently a decent preservative...

Rick

I seem to get squirrels in my cars. If I let anything set for more
then a month I will find nuts everywhere!

 

[BD]

We quickly found her cat from her place across town.... tucked neatly

Yeesh. Reminds me of one of my personal childhood traumas - used to
live on a farm in Alberta, and it got reeeeally cold in the winters.
We'd plug in the block heaters on all our vehicles.

One morning my mom started up the van, and we heard a really weird
noise as she revved it up, which was accompanied by a fine grey fur
exuding from the grill of the van.

One less cat to worry about feeding, I guess. ;(

 

[John Varela]

One morning my mom started up the van, and we heard a really weird noise as
she revved it up, which was accompanied by a fine grey fur exuding from the
grill of the van.

One less cat to worry about feeding, I guess.

A friend told me this story of something that happened when he was living in
Massachusetts. One morning he went out to drive to work, started the car and
began backing up. He felt a thump so got out to investigate. Their cat had
evidently been sleeping on top of a tire, and when the car moved the cat was
thrown under the wheel.

It being the dead of winter, the ground was frozen so the cat couldn't be
buried. He tossed it into the garbage can.

After the next garbage collection the cat was still in the can. A note
pinned to its ear said "We don't take dead animals."

The ground being still frozen and spring a long time off, my friend put the
dead cat in a paper bag, returned it to the garbage can, and all was well.
That being Massachusetts, the cat was probably fed to pigs.

 

[Rick Courtright]

I seem to get squirrels in my cars. If I let anything set for more
then a month I will find nuts everywhere!

Hi,

Haven't had a squirrel IN the car (yet?) but one DID eat up a big chunk
of a rear mudflap. Best I could figure looking at the damage was I'd hit
a piece of fruit or something else "red, sweet and sticky" that got
kicked up by the tire and he was munching on the plastic to get the
"good stuff" out of it.

Rick

 

[suburboturbo]

Hi,

Haven't had a squirrel IN the car (yet?) but one DID eat up a big chunk
of a rear mudflap. Best I could figure looking at the damage was I'd hit
a piece of fruit or something else "red, sweet and sticky" that got
kicked up by the tire and he was munching on the plastic to get the
"good stuff" out of it.

Rick

Okay, now that we've shifted from items found in purchased cars to
animals destroyed under odd circumstances, I was once driving down the
Bronx River Parkway towards NY when a duck decided to cross the road.
It's flight path happened to intersect the trajectory of my 1971 Vega
at bumper height. Saw him bounce, pulled over but couldn't find the
duck, just an undamaged grill full of feathers. May be the only know
case of a Vega surviving any sort of crash.