What Have You Found?
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From: N Richland Hills, TX
What Have You Found?
I bought a '72 Olds Cutlass to use for a parts car. A friend of mine found the car for me in Albuquerque, NM. I paid $275.00 for the car, basically a rolling chassis with great, rust-free sheet-metal.
I pulled it back to TX a few weeks ago and finally got around to tearing it apart yesterday. I pulled off the driver's front fender and between the fender and the plastic inner fender I found a plastic bag with $640.00 in $20.00 bills!
Life is good! So far that is all the "extra" goodies I found stashed in the car.
Before anybody says I should give the money back...I bought it without a title and the car had been abandoned for several years on my friends neighbors property for several years. He said he thought it was left by a friend of his sons.
All the $20.00 bills were series 1981A.
What have you found lately?
James
I pulled it back to TX a few weeks ago and finally got around to tearing it apart yesterday. I pulled off the driver's front fender and between the fender and the plastic inner fender I found a plastic bag with $640.00 in $20.00 bills!
Life is good! So far that is all the "extra" goodies I found stashed in the car. Before anybody says I should give the money back...I bought it without a title and the car had been abandoned for several years on my friends neighbors property for several years. He said he thought it was left by a friend of his sons.
All the $20.00 bills were series 1981A.
What have you found lately?
James
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Be sure to wash the money...literally....it might have certain smells that you do no want to be associated with...can't be to carefull now a day's...other than that congrats on your find...
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Yep. That's what happened to it. My son had our car out and couldn't remember where he left it. I have been looking for it ever since. Give me your address and I'll be right over. The money was saved for my sister to have an operation. Without it she will die. She will be so happy we found the money.
Just kidding of course. Good for you. The only thing I found lately and wish I didn't is the snow shovel. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. Good luck to you. Now you can buy more parts to fix the car.
Just kidding of course. Good for you. The only thing I found lately and wish I didn't is the snow shovel. If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. Good luck to you. Now you can buy more parts to fix the car.
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what year did D.B. Cooper dissapear again ? anyone know what car he drove at the time? thats so weird that you found that in the fender. must have been a drug run gone bad. id definantly get those smells out of the material - but be careful !! washing bills that old might leave you with no bills at all... maybe just stick them in a box with an air freshener, then leave them out of the box for a week so the natural air works with them.
i found a $100 bill at a bar one time, just sitting on the floor. that was a few years ago
i found a $100 bill at a bar one time, just sitting on the floor. that was a few years ago
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Ha ha, the gorlfriend and I were going to swing by the bank to deposit a check, and as we were walking in , she says "You gonna pick that up?" I looked down and there was a $20 laying on the ground by the door.
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i wish i had that luck, but speeking of dirty money, last summer i got questioned at the local supermaket for spending counterfiet money, it was pretty serious, but i was innocent
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QUOTE:All the $20.00 bills were series 1981A.
They don't all have the same serial number, do they?
You had better send them to me so I can determine if they are real or not, by circulating them through out the retail sector.
I wouldn't want you to get in trouble.
They don't all have the same serial number, do they?
You had better send them to me so I can determine if they are real or not, by circulating them through out the retail sector.
I wouldn't want you to get in trouble.
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I had to laugh at this one.
When I lived in Amarillo I worked part time in a salvage dissasembly shop. basically we took vehicles apart for usable parts and scrapped the leftovers. I did it for parts mostly.
The first station was interior removal, we rotated through each station, boss told us whatever we found was ours. You wouldn't believe what you can find in old vehicles. From tools, some good ones too, Snap-On ETC, to ladies unmentionables, guns, and more. Money, oh yeah, mostly change, but several times someone found a significant amount of cash. Unfortunately, I never did.
But I did find three prosthetic legs once.
When I lived in Amarillo I worked part time in a salvage dissasembly shop. basically we took vehicles apart for usable parts and scrapped the leftovers. I did it for parts mostly.
The first station was interior removal, we rotated through each station, boss told us whatever we found was ours. You wouldn't believe what you can find in old vehicles. From tools, some good ones too, Snap-On ETC, to ladies unmentionables, guns, and more. Money, oh yeah, mostly change, but several times someone found a significant amount of cash. Unfortunately, I never did.
But I did find three prosthetic legs once.
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I don't know if I'd be too quick to spend it that quickly. While it is a nice find, who knows if it were part of some crime? $640 back in 1981 was alot of dough. If it were me, I would probably turn it into the police. Perhaps it might help solve a crime, or then again perhaps it's forgotten money that after a specified period of time they hand it back to you. I don't know if it's the right thing or wrong thing to do, but that's what I would do.
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Hey, I worked at a salvage yard too, best thing I ever found was a diamond ring in the glove box of an old truck. We'd had the truck for a year or so, tried to call the former owner but he had long since left town. So I still have it.
Found several thousand dollars in the trunk of a car once, but the police wanted the owner to come for it and told us not to touch anything. Kid showed up, as soon as he popped the trunk cops came out of the woodwork and busted him. All drug money.
This was weird: found a full bottle of vodka in a junked car. Took it to a birthday party for a guy and his g/f I'd just met in the next state over. Turns out the car used to be his, it had his name on the paperwork and everything, and the bottle was given to him by the g/f for his birthday the previous year right before the car got towed. So he got to drink it after all.
Hey, I worked at a salvage yard too, best thing I ever found was a diamond ring in the glove box of an old truck. We'd had the truck for a year or so, tried to call the former owner but he had long since left town. So I still have it.
Found several thousand dollars in the trunk of a car once, but the police wanted the owner to come for it and told us not to touch anything. Kid showed up, as soon as he popped the trunk cops came out of the woodwork and busted him. All drug money.
This was weird: found a full bottle of vodka in a junked car. Took it to a birthday party for a guy and his g/f I'd just met in the next state over. Turns out the car used to be his, it had his name on the paperwork and everything, and the bottle was given to him by the g/f for his birthday the previous year right before the car got towed. So he got to drink it after all.
