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    What do you find the most of in scrap cars?

    Outside of money and tools, what do you find the most of in vehicles?

    For me it is watches and pocket knives. I have found dozens of watches, one was a expensive Casio ($500) when it was new. I kept it and wear it as a dress watch. I have sold a bunch of them too.

    I have found so many knives I had a really nice yard sale a year back.


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    Varmints. Most abundant in order: mice, raccoons, cats, and skunks. I am lucky if the critters have not eaten all the wiring. As far as anything useful or valuable I have not had the pleasure.
    Give back more to this world than we take.

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    Empty beer can and panties

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snowman18 View Post
    Empty beer can and panties
    Reminds me of the one car we got from a friends ex that had several dozen vibrators in it. Vibrators in the passengers foot well, boxes in the back. He said she would buy one on the way to work each morning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wwhijr View Post
    reminds me of the one car we got from a friends ex that had several dozen vibrators in it. Vibrators in the passengers foot well, boxes in the back. He said she would buy one on the way to work each morning!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wwhijr View Post
    Reminds me of the one car we got from a friends ex that had several dozen vibrators in it. Vibrators in the passengers foot well, boxes in the back. He said she would buy one on the way to work each morning!
    Cats out of the bag now we know why she left your friend he failed in his matrimonial duty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wwhijr View Post
    Reminds me of the one car we got from a friends ex that had several dozen vibrators in it. Vibrators in the passengers foot well, boxes in the back. He said she would buy one on the way to work each morning!
    In NewZealand, it's illegal " To use a Hand held electronic device while driving '

    The item I find most of ( & yes I have found one of those /\ ). is Ballpoint pens & business cards.

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    I haven't stripped down a car in a while.
    I've found car parts from other cars, clothes, a dumpster's worth of trash ( no joke minivan was FULL ), and cassette tape / 8-track collections.
    The van looked like this ...

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    That could definitely be worse than texting and driving.

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    I've always thought those things were washable...?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DakotaRog View Post
    I've always thought those things were washable...?
    I do not think it's legal to resell used ... toys.

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    I wouldn't want that job.

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    You could always break them down and sell the small motors. Personally, I wouldn't touch them.

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    No, you guys got me wrong. I wasn't wondering why someone wasn't selling or scrapping them, only why the original owner went through so many of them?? Perhaps she didn't know how the change batteries when they died or maybe the "thrill" of a new one on a regular basis was part of the allure of her fascination in such devices. Anyway, probably enough is enough on those things...

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