I just went and picked up the boot lid for a Clio for a mate that had bought it on eBay. He lives in Glasgow, the boot lid was in Croydon, and strangely the seller wouldn't post. It's now in my garage in Bromley, and I'm not really that clear on what my mate thinks will happen next.
It was pretty much the oddest thing/situation I've had in the back of the car. What's yours? (Sorry, I'm bored while my PC does some backing up - keep it clean kids!)
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the back end of another car,i bought it in auction as a v/car very clean it was too, but the back end was off a different car same make different model (escort xr3).
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I know of a Sierra that was stolen, a few years ago, with a real human skeleton in a cardboard box in the boot.
The replacement cost was approx £2000, not for the car, charged to the med student.
The car was recovered but not the box and contents.
Often wondered what happened when the box was opened and did the scroat know what value was in it both £££s and its value to generations of of med students.
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On looking in the boot of my late mother's Mercedes 280CE found a cardboard box which contained a casket holding the ashes of one of her cats.
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Stranger in a strange land
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Not very strange but not wanted.
On holiday in Florida I bought some kiddies fishing tackle and some shrimps as bait.
Kids enjoyed the fishing but a few days later when we next used the boot there was a stinking bag of shrimp "soup" to be disposed of, fortunately all still contained in the bag. UGH!!!
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Deliberate this one, but I can claim to have driven into HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
I used to sing in the Bach Choir and once a year we did a carol concert at the Scrubs, in front of what you might call a captive audience.
We brought some timpani (kettledrums) with us, two of which fitted nicely in the back of the Renault 20 TS I had then (early 1980s). Some of you may remember the great percussionist Jimmy Blades who was the star turn at these concerts - he would come with all his equipment in the back of a splendid old 'granny' Rover P4, and also drive into the prison. And we got out again....
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I'm not sure about the strangest thing, but perhaps the smelliest was a cabbage, followed by a rotten chicken and veg pie. It is a testament to the state of my boot that both items had fallen out of the shopping bag and not been spotted.
After a little while and some warm weather the smell became pretty impressive and even two air fresheners couldn't keep it in check. I looked in the radiator expecting to see a mummified bird of some sort. Checked wheel arches. Nothing.
When I eventually found the cabbage in the boot, I wrongly assumed that was the culprit. The smell carried on and I eventually found an ex-frozen Waitrose chicken and veg pie that had transformed into some soggy grey pulp in a box.
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My wife left and forgot about a mango under one of the seats in the Almera when she used to drive it. I'm sure that some of the carpet came away when i removed it.
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For me the strangest thing I have had in a vehicle is a dead porpoise. This was in my days of being an Auxilliary Coastguard and we were actually recovering this thing from the beach to a location where some vetrinarian type people could examine it. Because of its size we could only fit it on the front passenger seat of the SWB Terrano we had, and my mate had to ride in the back seat. It was a shame for the poor old dead porpoise, but my mate and I were just creased up with laughter later on thinking about how rediculous the whole procedure looked.
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That is absolutely my favourite thing ever to be found in the boot of a car - a dead porpoise.
You should do the guessing as a party piece. It would have been 2099 before I guessed "a dead porpoise". Better still, take bets.
Perhaps the only greater fun would be "a live porpoise".
Thanks for making me laugh.
Alijazz
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"Some friends of mine" once secreted a dead (obviously) fish into the bulkhead of another friend's truck. Took him an uncomfortable couple of weeks to find out what was going on...
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My wife left and forgot about a mango under one of the seats in the Almera when she used to drive it. I'm sure that some of the carpet came away when i removed it.
Bit of luck eh!.....the first bit that is!
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Couldn't you hide an escaped convict in your timpani?
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Deliberate this one, but I can claim to have driven into HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
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I have driven into most of the prisons in this country, plus Broadmoor, which is not a prison, but a hospital. Plus Buck house and Windsor Castle - all of these premises in a professional capacity, you understand.
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>> Deliberate this one, but I can claim to have driven into >> HMP Wormwood Scrubs. >> >> I have driven into most of the prisons in this country, plus Broadmoor, which is not a prison, but a hospital. Plus Buck house and Windsor Castle - all of these premises in a professional capacity, you understand.
Career criminal? ;)
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Career criminal? ;)
Could there be any other reason?
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How strange - our paths must have crossed! I went with the Royal College of Music Brass Ensemble on a few occasions to play with the Bach Choir at the Scrubs. Definitely an experience to us young lads (err at the time!). Talking of Rovers, we fitted many a musical instrument into my Dad's Rover P5 ... including the odd Timp, Contra Bassoon and such like.
..... oh yes and we got out too!!
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I once dropped a piece of smelly french semi-hard cheese down alongside the drivers seat in the Mondeo I had at the time. Unfortunately it slipped under the very cheap loose-fiting carpet and I couldn't retrieve it. Every time after that when the weather was warm, it made its presence known. My brother-in-law then bought car so it may still be there.....
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Klystron, it's a pity you didn't have more than one porpoise in the car, then you would have been able to say that you had a multi-porpoise vehicle.
I'll get my coat.
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At least his life had some porpoise for a while...
Sometimes I think the Back Room is going downhill, with too much personal chatter among the regulars, then a thread like this or the other currently-running one on workshop tales makes it worthwhile again.
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How about a thread on 'misappropriation of company transport' for a laugh then Mike?
I could start it off by admitting to once having a company helicopter tasked to collect my slippers many years ago! A bit of a long tale but true none the less. Not strictly motoring I know but land transport is not a lot of use where I work.
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Hmmm...Strange things i've had in the boot of my car. I could write a book.
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Strangest thing in a car?
Not a in a car but...
I was driving along the M18 a few years ago and an artic (which must have been a LHD) drove down the opposite carriage-way with a 6ft Kellogg's Frosties tiger 'at the wheel'
Made me look twice...
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klystron - I think you had better keep your identity well hidden.
Anyone in my company who did that would be straight out of the door before their slippers could touch the ground.....
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Thousands of flies after one of the kids spilt a tin of maggots in the boot - and never told me.
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Hmmmmmmm
I helped a friend collect a Vauxhall Cavalier front door before.
It was too big & wouldnt fit in his Cavalier boot no matter how many times & ways he tried to make it fit, But it went in first time in the boot of my old 405 saloon a treat, Loads of room.
He was a bit shocked it fitted in & remember 405 saloon rear seats dont fold down either lol.
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True story.. an importer in Leicester found a snake in a box of imported goods from outside the UK. They rang the police, (Like you do for snakes). Police arrived and arranged to have it accepted at a zoo some 25 miles away. After carefully loading this unknown, possibly venomous, snake into a box using anything but hands, it was driven to the zoo in the boot of the Vauxhall Cavalier. On arrival the box was found to be...empty...aaaarrgh! The patrol car went to the workshop for stripping and the snake was found, dead, inside the foam of the rear seat.
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One thing I did learn on arrival in Australia is that, if you drive over a snake, make sure you can see it behind you in the rear view mirror. There are all sorts of tales of people who drove over snakes and they appear when the bonnet is opened or come out through a vent etc. The snake is usually in a bad mood at this point.
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Once carried a complete Royal Enfield (250cc continental GT ?) motor bike in the back of a Vauxhall Viva Just took out the rear seat & front wheel off bike got it in & out with a struggle but it fitted
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