Concours Lincoln penny?

[rhjanes]

My 69 coupe (small block) been in the family since 1972, found no build sheet, found little under the carpets.  Some change but was probably dropped out of my dad's pocket, moms purse, sisters purse....  The funny one was when I took apart the rear end and there was this small red plastic cap in the gear lube!  I called a buddy who worked for decades for Ford.  Yep, he knew what it was.  When they changed out the lube for filling the rear ends, they often ignored the step to "twist off the plastic cap and discard".  He figured the coupe was on the line when they were changing out the lube and they just shot that cap into the rear end.  Interesting thing was that it wasn't torn up much at all.

Now the 1970 Mach, 428 CJ....Found under the front passenger, a baggie with spare screws, wire clips, a door switch even.  Under the rear seat carpet by the tunnel, a good build sheet, parts of a build sheet under the carpet at drivers seat.  But the funny thing was, well remember 1969 and 1970, when everyone was going to the craft store, buying up these little beads and stringing our own "hippie" beads?  There must have been a few hundred under that back seat.  Now just what do you suppose was going on in the back seat that some hippie beads got busted in the back seat?  I'll wait....LOL

[Rukiddin]

"Workin' on those night moves" . 

[JD]

They were "love" beads

[rhjanes]

They were "love" beads

Yep.  Where I was (AZ at the time...and MT where "hippie" was a bad word) they were "hippie" by "the squares" and "Love Beads" by us young-uns. 

[Side-Oilers]

That condom is a cool relic, from back in the days that men had to go to the pharmacist and embarrassingly (or proudly) ask for one.

[Special Ed]

In my area u could buy them in mens room of local bar machine that takes quarters (that's what I was told anyway)!

[Jbarela]

Pulled my passenger seat only to look up in the bolt hole and see this tag wired into the sheetmetal

[J_Speegle]

Pulled my passenger seat only to look up in the bolt hole and see this tag wired into the sheetmetal

Looks like a shipping tag. Best I've made from ones like this and what is printed on them a tag was attached to one of many (likely one on the top layer) arranged for shipping on a pallet or other holder. It identifies the part, number in the shipment and other information for shipping and inventory purposes. They have been found in a number of colors and printed on heavy paper with a thin metal wire to hold it to the part.

Cool find

[CSX2259]

I know this topic is old but....

While disassembling CSX2416 for it's restoration I found a 1964 penny in the bottom of the pedal box.

[gt350hr]

  Lots of pop rivet stems in mine when I pulled the back seat bottom.

[corbins]

Found a 68 penny stuck in the sound deadner in the drivers door of 1588

[S7MS427]

So no pennies when I took part of my interior apart back in the late seventies, but I did find stuffed into the heater box a medicine pill bottle with some organic matter in it and a small alligator clip.  That might explain why the front right side suspension was totally trashed when I bought the car in 1977...

[Bigblock]

Maybe a concours condom too!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve

Machine dispensed (gas station) condom under 68 Cougar console. Horse track betting slips under back seat of Mustang. Gas station finds: ball bearings rolling around bottom of Cadillac door, metal can openers welded to bottom of Vega, numerous nuts laying in Cheby air cleaner, written in chalk on bottom of 70s Dodge - F... Dodge.