Most money found in a scrap car?

for years I've been doing a thing where I take a knife and cut the bottom back part of the seats(front seats) Once pulled out 450 dollars in silver dollar coins from em.

Originally Posted by Ronny

for years I've been doing a thing where I take a knife and cut the bottom back part of the seats(front seats) Once pulled out 450 dollars in silver dollar coins from em.

Never found any money, just a trunk full of new power tools.

We changed out current coins a few years ago, now all the coins I find are the old unusable ones.

Thou' heres a funny story.
I had a Mazda Capella, it was a 'Jap import'. We import used Jap cars & re license them for NZ.
The passengers seat never moved much forward & back, it was never comfortable.
One day, with a friends Japanese student in the back seat & me in the passengers seat, I used all of my weight back & forth full on untill something gave & it returned to its normal adjustment.
I look down & see something, so i grab it & lift it up untill we can see it.

Its a Japanese parking meter coin, musta been in there for 14 years... We nearly wet ourselves larffin.

I once found 3k worth of horribly made counterfeit 100$ stashed in the headliner of a car in the junkyard. When you touched them the ink rubbed right off and all the serial numbers were the same.

I really wish it was genuine money though. I was insanely disappointed when I realized they were some ****ty fakes!

I used to work at a dealership detailing used cars...usually the money that was in the open was taken by the salesmen or techs who saftied the cars...then I got to them...busted out my 3/8 impact, and zipped out the front seats to hand scrub the carpet underneath...and reap the spare change nobody else would dig for...once pulled close to $5 in change out of a VW Jetta...I never found a whole bunch, but enough to keep a nice piggy bank on my bench and never have to use my own money on the vending machines...

I actually got happier finding parts in cars that people traded in and I cleaned up for them to go straight to auction...found oil filters, relays, tools (cheap hand tools, but tools all the same), cell phones, portable cd players, knick knacks...and those nice headlight bulbs that are $10-$15 a piece at the parts store.

Once found an EXPENSIVE ring, under the spare tire in the trunk...kinda thought about pawning it, but then my better side kicked my evil sides a**, turned the ring in, woman shows up next day happier than a pig in crap and hands me a $50 Best Buy giftcard...can't argue with that.

The van I drive now and have been driving for 2 years doesn't have a radio. Went to the yard and got one. Got under the dash to put it in and found a five dollar bill and opened pack of smokes. Tossed the smokes and got lunch.

I'd say that is the most I've found in a car.

$8 cash in the ash tray of a 93 mazda protege. tons of spare change in other cars but only a dollar or two in each car if any. I get tons of cd players and cheap tools/tire irons, oil, tranny fluid, washer fluid etc.

Wasn't scrappin a car, but bad at the junk yard pulling an ashtray assembly for a 99 Taurus I was selling (pain in the ass to get out) this thing wouldn't budge..so my frustration got the better of me, I leaned the seat back and kicked the crappy out of it! Lol, well the assembly came lose and moeny went everywhere!!

Needless to say I was pumped, turned out to be mostly
Ones but $65 total..so yeah I was happy!

my uncle had just got paid and had cashed his monthly check and was about to go hit up all his utilities etc to pay his monthly bills. he needed to stop at the junkyard to grab a part really quick. got there got the part and walked to the counter. reaches for his wallet to pay and dang it fell under that car he was under. he ran back to the car and what do you know, wallet is there empty. it was a rough couple months for him after that.

Theres been a couple of cars in NZ that after a accident, a big bagga gold coins fell out from under the dash...

do you guys ever rebuild these cars and resell them? if so, that explains why all the cars in Va never have the tire irons, jacks, or any change in them, lol

we stopped keeping the tire irons probably 20 cars ago, we will keep a 4way tho, and the jack it just depends if we think we will use it or not , change we got a 44oz cup over half full just from cars saving it up till its full and we gonna eat something nicer than fast food that day

Back in the 80's I cleaned out cars for an uncle who had a small used car dealership. I got paid $3 per hour and got to keep what I found. My most surpising find 8 dollars in change and a snubnose .38 out from under the backseat of a Bonneville. I also found numerous pot pipes, drug paraphernalia, lighters and pocket knives.

Best score I ever had was a $60 Matador Wagon that was an ex-forest service patrol vehicle, it had secret compartment by the spare tire well that held a gov. issue .38 (never fired) and a really nice set of Craftsman tools(also gov. issue), and $18 in quarters out of the bench seat. Car probably changed hands 4-5 times with the goodies undetected.

that one will be hard to beat