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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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So, this afternoon I'm cleaning out an old pull handle MGB I just got - engine & transmission are disassembled & in trunk, seats were just tossed inside car along with loose old carpet, top & bumpers....when I pulled everything out to check the condition of the floors, I found a 2-piece Ansa exhaust that's still in its original plastic wrapping; a little surface rust on the ends where the plastic has cracked but otherwise brand new!

That's a first for me!!
 
The day after I got back from Fl. with the Mustang GT vert I bought for the wife, I cleaned it but didn't do a real detail job so about two weeks ago I did a full job. I felt a lump under the carpet ..under the drivers seat and found a bag of green leafy stuff. HEY...I was a teenager in the 60s...I did my duty and called a local cop I know. Handed it to him and he said I should mend my ways....he took it and left.
 
Mice - lots of mice.

Nice score on the exhaust Tony.
 
Tony:
That sounds very much like the condition my TR-3 was in when I got it. I, in fact was very suprised not to mention pleased that ALL of the required parts for re-assembly were present and acounted for with exception of bearings, rings, Pistons {one was broken} and gaskets. The P.O had slid it backwards into a pole of some sort {Telephone pole I suspect by the size and shape of the dent} and dented the rear apron in about four or five inches.
Quite a challenge to repair but I/we did manage it to our satisfaction. The hood and trunk hinges were stripped and beyond our capabilitys to repair, but back then there were plenty of Triumphs to be found in the various wercking yards.
Although we didn`t find any "goodies" like you did in our car. It was a real good Father/Son experiance re-assemblying it.
The piston, liner ordeal is/was a whole nother story as to what and how we "Made do" with some patience, preserverance and ingenuity.
I would love to lay my hands on another deal like that one or the one you just got.
 
I'm betting I have the only "new" Ansa exhaust in the US!! Moss has been out of stock for months!
 
My favorite find was a note from one previous owner who sold the car to his friend. The note had instruction on how to start the car easily and a phone number suggesting he should call for bail money. My other finds have been the mundane old coins and wrenches.
 
My Brother found a big cloth 'X' with strings on all the corners & connected to a spring thing...
(About 8' across)

We tried & tried to figure out what it was but, had no idea.

He finally discovered it was a drag chute & put it on E-Bay.

He got a ridiculous amount of money for it on account of it being something collectible.
(It had some cool lettering on it but, I can't remember now what it said)

BTW....This was in the back of a 2500M???
 
I was given a Ford Escort for free (a parts car for my other race car).
When I got it, there were 4 drum sticks on the front seat. I asked the owner to take them but he said he didn't want anything from the car.

A few days later, when I was stripping it down, I found a very nice Timex wrist watch.
I gave the drum sticks to one of my students.

I'm wearing the watch right now. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
umm... stuff I can't post on Basil's forum.
 
I once found a piece of hash the size of half a chocolate bar wrapped in tinfoil and stashed under the spare tire of a TR-3 I'd just bought.

Of course not wanting to have anything to do with illegal substances, I immediately burned it...
 
But you didn't inhale, did you?? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
Jeff /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/angel.gif
 
If I would have known I could have sent you the crack pipe we found in the bumper of a Supra we once bought.
 
nails... holding the carpet to the floor board of my B..... I think that's the weirdest thing I've found so far...
 
Some years ago, I bought a '33 Ford in Montana. It had a family of chipmunks in it. They "moved out" during the trip to Colorado. Several years later, when I restored the car, I found a nice 1923 silver dollar in the bottom of one door.
During the restoration of my son's Triumph Stag, there was a "funny cigarette" in the package tray. Also a receipt for some racy items from Frederick's of Hollywood.
Bruce
 
The best that I seen was a note in a coke bottle in the door of older Lincoln we were working on at my first wrench job that read "how long did it take you to find this rattle" the owner of the shop still has it on his shelf at his shop and some old bridge tokens in the bottom of it the bridge was somewhere in Fla.
 
I bought a '63 Ford Consul Capri,but couldn't find
the keys.When I pulled the heater out,I found the keys -
- + a skeleton of a mouse.I also found one of those
minture license plates - it matched the car.

- Doug
 
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