Morris Minor Owners Club

This is what i found down the back of the front seats of my 4 door restoration - not sure the 13p will take the edge off the cost of all the repair panels ! The receipts from safeway circa 1998 - looks likes the seats have had new webbing on the bottom so quite comfy !

anyone else found something more interesting or valuable ??!!

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obviously the previous owner didn't clean there car out very well, found two bus tickets behind my glove box insert circa 1960/70's

I wonder what the key fits and how long did the owner look for it ?

When I bought my saloon last year, it had been dry-stored since 1993. As part of recommissioning it, I fitted rear seat belts. When I lifted up the base of the rear seat, I found a mouse's nest. Unfortunately, Mr Mouse wasn't at home, but he'd made a lovely home out of the sound deadening material and had left his collection of seeds too. There was some wiring for the towbar and heated screen running right next to his home, but the lovely little chap hadn't even chewed them or for that matter any of the interior! He obviously was keen to look after the car!!

I found these rusty spark plugs and flan belt.. .I also found a mouse nest under the back seat of my traveller[frame][/frame]

Try reaching into the deepest part of the boot too, I found a pretty reasonable spanner there in my car.

Ive found a few old coins in different seats and paper clips, even a single cuff link in one. Best find ever was a 1973 MOT certificate for the lowlight which was wedged between the battery box and the parcel shelf. This was enough with help from Sandy to get the original reg number reinstated

In the 54 project I have a rat had made a nest in the back seat and made a real mess of the leather, using all the sound proofing and lots of paper as nesting, there were even bits of bone and lots of rat poo, not so nice.....

On stripping out an early 54 S2 Traveller I came to remove the three piece front cab headlining, which is essentially three sections of hardborad covered with a rexine type material. Wedged up inside were in the region of 10 ..... now how can I describe these on a family forum such as this and so the mods don't pull the entry ...... things that you would buy from a reputable chemist or friendly gentlemans hairdresser when he asks you if you'd like anything for the weekend sir! Obviously they were very brittle but there was no doubting what they were!!!!

The fun of having a Traveller in the mid fifties I guess - just drop the back seat down and away you go! who needs VW campers???

DAVIDMCCULLOUGH wrote:Ive found a few old coins in different seats and paper clips, even a single cuff link in one. Best find ever was a 1973 MOT certificate for the lowlight which was wedged between the battery box and the parcel shelf. This was enough with help from Sandy to get the original reg number reinstated
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Now that's a good result!

Oh dear I think I better have a closer look - all I have found down the back of my seats so far are little globules of glass from, presumably, the original windscreen. Oh, I did find a mouse skull in the windscreen pillar too

My Traveller definitely went on many family holidays in her previous life - got about 3 lbs of sand out of the front seats when I recovered them

Found an half pencein drivers glove box and have kept it in there ever since!

MarkyB wrote:Try reaching into the deepest part of the boot too, I found a pretty reasonable spanner there in my car.

I did that with mine and something grabbed my hand!!!

I found a wire brush behind my rear seats!

Removed the rear seats from our latest acquisition today, all i found was a large pile of carpets.

Not only were the carpets from the front hiding back there, but also some of another carpet set (of a different colour) and a random square carpet tile!

£1, sixpence, 4 2p's, 2 1p's 10p, grommet, receipt for petrol (2006) and lots of dust and dirt! and the missing door pin from the drivers door!
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thats a good result !

cheers

Matt