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Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:11 pm

Looked like it had been used to do an oil change aswell!!!!!
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:20 pm

brettE30cab wrote:Well I found a size 20 black lace thong under the boot carpet! Looked like a fkin hammock!!
....and smelt like an Haddock?
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:21 pm

When I brought my E30? I don't recall bringing it anywhere.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:30 pm

boxed and wrapped in greased paper, a pair of genuine BMW aG front hub bearings with ABS rings... 8 years on and they are still in my garage.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:39 pm

plus Cat Stevens and Roxette cassettes to add the the collection :mad:
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:50 pm

I found £2.56, a Phil Collins Cassette, a Verve one, 5 pairs of Sunglasses mainly from the 70's, a sticker entitling me to free entry to a museum and a variety of dog hairs. All useful kit.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:51 pm

johnt0709 wrote:OK - Ill say it - It should be bought your E30 - brought means "bring to a place with something"
I had to resist writing this!
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:56 pm

ultralinear wrote:
johnt0709 wrote:OK - Ill say it - It should be bought your E30 - brought means "bring to a place with something"
I had to resist writing this!
you mean, as in brung?
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:01 pm

On of my pals bought a 318iS. Found a print out of an ebay auction for the car in the glove box from a few months before for about half the price he paid for it.

Cant say iv found anything interesting in any of my E30's. apart from an E21 handbook.....
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:10 pm

Bits of broken glass under the rear seat base. :lol:
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:41 pm

That M3 reminds me of that VW camper that was stashed with a load of weed that the guy found whilst restoring it, the stuff looked decades past its time.

Don't think i found interesting items left over in my E30 but in my corsa a few months into the summer there was a rather foul smell coming from somewhere that I couldn't work out where it was coming from, so i cleared everything out the back and found wedged under the drivers seat a partially milk filled baby's bottle.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:43 pm

rancido64 wrote: Luckily for me though they never came back to me about it :)
That means they smoked it or sold it on. I was not so lucky.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:45 pm

dimebag_from_hell wrote:
rancido64 wrote: Luckily for me though they never came back to me about it :)
That means they smoked it or sold it on. I was not so lucky.
An ounce is enough for a dealing charge isn't it? I bet the police christmas party was a mellow affair that year.
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:48 pm

They probably planted it, it was the police after all....
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Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:00 pm

Found a Tesco name badge in the green cabby :P
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:04 am

A fiver! Bought me brekkie on the way home!
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:15 am

My e30 red chromie that I respraed black and made a tech 1 (some will remember) It had a crays bro sticker in the top left hand corner of the windscreen. When I stripped it and took the carpet out I found live and empty 2.2 shell's :o
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:21 am

I found a short crowbar tucked down by the driver's seat! Can't imagine why!!?
Also, a nice bunch of stuff in the boot that the previous owner couldn't be bothered to take out like a full set of pads, timing belt, oils, fluids etc
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:27 am

A tenner in the ashtray, rice krispies under the handbrake gaiter and most surprisingly, an original (non-working) torch.
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Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:49 am

dimebag_from_hell wrote:
rancido64 wrote: Luckily for me though they never came back to me about it :)
That means they smoked it or sold it on. I was not so lucky.
I don't mind, at least i hadn't paid for it and lost it, then i would have been annoyed by it!
Thankfully though, their searches may have turned that lump of hash up, but the bag of grass that was on me went totally unnoticed winkeye
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:37 am

Kemix wrote: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 :?
When I bought this car from the guy in Kent, I take it he couldnt be asked to empty it and found a couple of headunits and best of all an iPod (the little one with the camera on in) other wise it was just general crap like pliers, bulbs, fuses, fag packets... @Kemix, I still have the 'M' badges you took off the boot and ash tray :)
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 12:46 am

A roll of solder on the chassis leg. Still use it
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:19 am

a mate bought a car of his mate - found some naughty photos of his mate with someone who was not his wife!! lol

me - bought a celica gt4 with 80k on the clock - a couple of weeks later, found an old service recipt for 145k :x
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:47 am

i found a long snap on pry bar behind the boot side carpet in this rotter and still have it in my toolbox :D

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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:10 am

jann wrote:A folder full of dance trance CD's.... Pity it doesn't have a radio??
still got them? winkeye
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:10 am

I found a magnetic LED inspection lamp. It wasn't there when I bought the car, but I found it when the drivers side kick panel tried to kill me on the way to the zone roam. The garage that I don't use anymore had done the master/slave clutch cylinders the week before and must have left the lamp attached to the metal bar that runs above your knees.
It's a pretty handy piece of kit, if I could find a charger to fit it.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:47 am

I bought a Range Rover and found a hand pistol mag with 3x 2.2 bullets in it....! The seller was a country farmer (that didn't actually farm) type, not thankfully, a dealer.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:50 am

Found a passport, smart phone and 2 glove box torches down the back of the glove box on a breaker. Sold the phone and 2 torches and was already breaking even on the car :cool:

Another car I found lots of electrical tools in the boot, snap on screw driver set, socket set kit and loads of general garage kit in the boot of another that wouldnt open and the owner assumed it was empty. (They lost the keys)
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:52 am

Gert_8 wrote:I bought a Range Rover and found a hand pistol mag with 3x 2.2 bullets in it....! The seller was a country farmer (that didn't actually farm) type, not thankfully, a dealer.
How long ago was this? Hand guns are illegal in the UK with exceptions of some antiques etc 8O
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:53 am

The last E30 I bought had a lovely zippo lighter in the glovebox, shame I don't smoke :)
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:56 am

Jim320i wrote:
Gert_8 wrote:I bought a Range Rover and found a hand pistol mag with 3x 2.2 bullets in it....! The seller was a country farmer (that didn't actually farm) type, not thankfully, a dealer.
How long ago was this? Hand guns are illegal in the UK with exceptions of some antiques etc 8O
About 8 years ago...
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:58 am

I found £18ish in coins in a red touring breaker most of it had slipped through the ripped gear gator, 3 of us had a Chinese takeaway that night!

Steering wheel is obviously the place for week, I had a mk2 golf with a small bag!

And best of all, brought an e28 off some wierd car nut man, he couldn't be bothered to empty the boot, it was full of spares, including 2 sets of rear e28 lights, sold them for £60 a pair on ebay! what a result!
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:58 am

Definately shouldnt have been there then regardless of who they are :mad: Handguns have been a no no since 1996 iirc. He must have been a gangster :D
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:05 am

Jim320i wrote:Definately shouldnt have been there then regardless of who they are :mad: Handguns have been a no no since 1996 iirc. He must have been a gangster :D
He might have been. I'd have classified him to be more of a country gent. He was actually a country farmer turned business man. Was a bit dodgy as I paid big money in cash!!! I guess that wasn't declared on his accounts..

His "gaff" was lovely and the family were having sunday lunch in a beautiful modern green oak barn conversion type building, when I collected the car.. :D
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:07 am

In the one I have now it had a sign to hang on the back window in the shape of a leaf saying a spliff a day keeps the doctor away ,found a syringe and needle in the door pocket or a previous one
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