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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:41 pm

Heard of strange things being found in 2nd hand cars, all i found were some coins and a good dose of rust
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:43 pm

An old 10p and a copy of Alexander O'Neal's Hearsay album on cassette. :D
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:53 pm

Not an e30 story but related to the theme.

My mate is a cracking welder (repaired my car last year too) and got asked to do a couple of bits to his colleagues civic he had just bought, Chris pulled up the carpets to find a load of granny porn stashed there. Poor lad who owned the car never lived it down :D
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:59 pm

Lmfao @ the above ^

In my old cromie 325i (3yrs ago) I was tracing a wire that run down into the centre console. As I put my hand around the back of it I felt a round-ish lump, when I pulled it out it turned out to be just over half ounce of solid (weed) 8O. My mate said it was a nice smoke lol :D
A 2 door e30 with 8 cylinders, what could be better winkeye :D
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:10 pm

A folder full of dance trance CD's.... Pity it doesn't have a radio??
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:19 pm

d6dph wrote:Not an e30 story but related to the theme.

My mate is a cracking welder (repaired my car last year too) and got asked to do a couple of bits to his colleagues civic he had just bought, Chris pulled up the carpets to find a load of granny porn stashed there. Poor lad who owned the car never lived it down :D
One of my mates did that to a car he sold, he slipped a few "printouts of wrongness" between the glove box and the dash before he handed over the keys LOL
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:22 pm

Lol 8O
A 2 door e30 with 8 cylinders, what could be better winkeye :D
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:23 pm

well he was a tw@ to be fair
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:26 pm

Not in an E30, but I once found a sub in the boot, even though the rest of the speakers and headunit had been removed. Its sat in the garage ever since lol.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:32 pm

This thread has been done before with some serious discoveries! :mad: You should do a search mate!

This is what i found behind my steering wheel badge! :cool:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:32 pm

I found in the passenger door pocket of the chromie a set of original 80's Mirror lens Aviator style sunglasses, still in their blue leather "Foster Grant" case.

I think I found £1.32 in the touring in loose change when I got it, so that took the purchase price to under £130 :)
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:32 pm

Cypriotgeeza wrote:This thread has been done before with some serious discoveries! :mad: You should do a search mate!

This is what i found behind my steering wheel badge! :cool:
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Win :cool:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:34 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:
Cypriotgeeza wrote:This thread has been done before with some serious discoveries! :mad: You should do a search mate!

This is what i found behind my steering wheel badge! :cool:
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Win :cool:
I drove around for a year with that basically "staring me in the face" :mad: as i said in the other thread imagine having a stupid amount in your car and you got pulled..."i didnt know that was in their officer i swear!...Yea COURSE you didnt mate" :teehee:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:37 pm

Cypriotgeeza wrote:
E30BeemerLad wrote:
Cypriotgeeza wrote:This thread has been done before with some serious discoveries! :mad: You should do a search mate!

This is what i found behind my steering wheel badge! :cool:
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Win :cool:
I drove around for a year with that basically "staring me in the face" :mad: as i said in the other thread imagine having a stupid amount in your car and you got pulled..."i didnt know that was in their officer i swear!...Yea COURSE you didnt mate" :teehee:
Kind of makes me want to pull the cab apart to make sure theres nothing hidden in there now lol.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:38 pm

Cypriotgeeza wrote:
E30BeemerLad wrote:
Cypriotgeeza wrote:This thread has been done before with some serious discoveries! :mad: You should do a search mate!

This is what i found behind my steering wheel badge! :cool:
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Win :cool:
I drove around for a year with that basically "staring me in the face" :mad: as i said in the other thread imagine having a stupid amount in your car and you got pulled..."i didnt know that was in their officer i swear!...Yea COURSE you didnt mate" :teehee:
hope you handed it straight into the police :D
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:38 pm

Duke137 wrote:hope you handed it straight into the police :D
Of course mate! Anything to get that junk off the streets.. :roll:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:41 pm

Cypriotgeeza wrote:
Duke137 wrote:hope you handed it straight into the police :D
Of course mate! Anything to get that junk off the streets.. :roll:
hahaha :twisted:
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:58 pm

Found a fair few things best find was a pair of brand new rogue engineering top mounts still in the sealed bag.

Other things have included;

Genuine Police sunglasses
Silver Shilling
Numerus tools and crap CDs
LED torch
Loads of small change
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:02 pm

There was the E30 M3 that had a modified fuel tank and a dummy rear footwell panel, Think it was a US car.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:08 pm

OK - Ill say it - It should be bought your E30 - brought means "bring to a place with something"
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:10 pm

d6dph wrote:There was the E30 M3 that had a modified fuel tank and a dummy rear footwell panel, Think it was a US car.
Yeah wasn't that a drug running car iirc
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:11 pm

Think so dude. I'll scour tinterwebs to find a link.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:18 pm

Duplicate thread, original one was started by me, it's worth a read. :D
1990 325i Cab auto in Alpine White II
1988 Alpina C2.5 moredoor in Black, 71k
1990 325ix, moredoor auto in Laser Blue. 51k
1984 Hartge H35 in Black
2004 996 C4S in Silver 43k manual
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:35 pm

Think i better check my steering wheel...
Im quite dissapointed at all i found now, at least ill be safe for a random police roadside check :chuckle:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:42 pm

one of the members here had a courtesy car for a while while his car was being repaired, in the engine bag he found a large bag of weed. the supplying bmw dealer didnt know what to say or seemed bothered 8O
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:43 pm

I found a pile of winning scratch cards in the glove box, all with about £2 - £5. Went to cash them up, about 40 pounds worth, and they were all to old to cash! Gutted :?
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:47 pm

When i purchased my 1st e30 there was a funny smell inside. After a few days i gave it a good clean inside, and tucked up behind rear headrest on parcel shelf was what looked like proper old mouldy cat shite! Nearly sick when i discovered it! Ha funny now tho!
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:49 pm

Some Confetti, a couple of Centimes and a ticket from a French Toll booth.

I like to think they are all connected.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:23 pm

...a pile of old BT phone cards (the green ones) behind the glove box.
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:27 pm

Cypriotgeeza wrote: I drove around for a year with that basically "staring me in the face" :mad: as i said in the other thread imagine having a stupid amount in your car and you got pulled..."i didnt know that was in their officer i swear!...Yea COURSE you didnt mate" :teehee:
This actually happened to me about a year and a half ago :(
I smoke weed, so if i'd known it was there it would've been gone!

I bought an Opel Omega for wrecking, within a week got the diff welded and me and a few of the lads went out for some roundaboutting and general late night tomfoolery.
We got pulled by the cops in the end and they proceeded to search all our cars.
What do they go and pull out of a compartment i didn't even know was there? About an ounce of hash :eek:

I tried to tell the copper at the time that if i'd have known it was there i'd have smoked it already and that i'd only had the car for 5 days or so, but he was having none of it.
Luckily for me though they never came back to me about it :)
Still... wish i'd found the lump before they did!
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:47 pm

Well I found a size 20 black lace thong under the boot carpet! Looked like a fkin hammock!!
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:02 pm

brettE30cab wrote:Well I found a size 20 black lace thong under the boot carpet! Looked like a fkin hammock!!
:teehee: :teehee:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:26 pm

brettE30cab wrote:Well I found a size 20 black lace thong under the boot carpet! Looked like a fkin hammock!!
:rolling: :puke:
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Post Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:38 pm

Might have been supporting a sagging boot carpet? 8O