What's the weirdest thing...
 

...you have ever found in your engine compartment? Today I was working on the idle speed and all of a sudden this big black widow spider fell out of the accellerator linkage almost on my hand. I found another one on the other side over on the manifold. Of course my truck has been sitting for a year in New Mexico, the state whose nickname should have been "black widow state". They were both dead from the heat I guess. I found a cat in my truck the other day too- it was my sister's. I got my fuel pump replaced today too, my other one was spitting gas.

was the cat dead?

The wierdest thing that has happened to me like that wasn't in the engine compartment. We had two kittens about 3 months old not too small, not too big, anyway, we were next door at my bro-n-laws and it started pouring down raining. Well we ran back across the yard and into the house but our two kittens stayed at the bro-in-laws, under his truck. Well sadly when he left, one was killed, but the other one had crawled up on the rear leaf spring to stay dry I guess, and clung there all the way to Richmond (about 45 minutes from us. When bro-in-law got out of the truck he heard it and brought it back to us. He got to ride in the front seat on the way back. I thought that was amazing...........Must have used up 6 or 7 lives on the way up............JB

Black Widows...
 

I have those little buggers in my storage unit. except mine are all live....freaks me out every time I go in there... I'm not afraid of spiders.. I really like them... I just have alot of respect for that one and one other that I can never find, but is supposed to be in 70% of US households... the Brown Recluse.....

Brown Recluse's are nocturnal.....usually only come out at night to feed. People usually get bitten by them by putting on clothes they will be hidden inside, shoes....etc...They will stay in your bed all day then come out at night and bite you... :)

greasemonkey, while I was reading your post I looked at where you were from before I finished and thought to myself "sounds like New Mexico" and lo and behold... When I lived there I was always careful about picking things up outside because there was almost always a Black Widow under it!

In an old abandoned 1962 Chevrolet truck that has been sitting for several years under a big oak tree in a field, but oddly looks like showroom quality, me and a buddy of mine went to look at it and when we popped the hood there was the biggest fattest Groundhog sitting on the motor looking at us, he was culred up around the air breather!!???? :confused: :D

Its not quite my engine compartment but I was cleaning out my garage once and found something a bit on the odd side. It was an old 1920's era house I was renting about 10 years ago and the owner had moved the original cupboards into the garage. I was cleaning the shop out and I moved the cupboards away from the wall and was sweeping out from underneath. There were some old clothes , some leaves , and a brown paper bag that looked like it had been there a long time. It was mildewed pretty bad and falling apart but it was quite heavy. So I reached down , opened the bag up and stuck my hand in and felt something that seemed vaguely familiar but I couldnt figure out what it was yet . So I pulled it out of the bag and 3 blocks away my neighbors could hear the screaming as the head of what seemed to be a severed penis emerged . As I was screaming I threw it across the room and it landed in the middle of the shop. I gathered my wits up, realized that it couldnt possibly be real as it had been there a LONG time and would have shrivelled up by now and went over to look at it. It was a 14 inch long double ended latex dildo with a lead shaft running through the middle so that it could be bent to different angles. How it got there I have no idea but my theory is that the previous occupants of the house was a long haul trucker and his wife was good "friends" with a lady down the street. After moving out of the house they had bought the house across the street and I would see the two of them together quite often. Hmmm. So any way I soaked the thing in bleach to get the mildew stains off of it and ran it through the dishwasher a few dozen times . Then I brought it into work where it was the basis of a year or so of some really good practical jokes before some jerk through my dildo away.

Dont tell my wife about the dishwasher thing. Pistons are one thing but she draws the line at moldy dildos in the dishwasher.

A buddy and I picked up a 72 big block truck that had been sitting for a few years in a field. When I got it home I wanted to see if it would run. Got it fired up and blew a mouse out of the exhaust! We saw it come out, and it was still alive!!!

Also found over 8 dollars in change in a parts truck once, under the carpet, behind the seat, ect.

when i bought my 71 there was a quart of oil and a trans dipstick i the front fender, whenmy friend bought a 91 gmc sonoma from a dealeship before they cleaed it out we found 4 bud lights and a pack of marlboros, so we knew he bought it from good people:)

Never
 

I have lived in New Mexico for 19 years and not once i have seen a black widow

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I really DO NOT envy you guys that have to put up with deadly spiders and whatnot. I HATE SPIDERS!! Not even a daddy longlegs is safe around me if there is a newspaper or shoe within a day's driving distance:p

Cripes, the most deadly things that we have to worry about up in da nort' is blackbears. At least I know a blackbear won't crawl out from under my covers at night and bite me!!:D

on the firewall of my monte is a small silver box with a plug i have no clue what the h'ell the ting is. On day i will find out when it breaks

There are brown reculses in my house! I know because i got BIT by one about a month ago...in my sleep! I woke up in the morning to find a big red mark on my arm, kinda like a giaint mosquito bite...about 1x2 inches. It went away after a few days. Luckily, it didn't have the flesh-rotting effect on me that a brown recluse does on some people :S.
I like most other spiders, there are plenty of wolf spiders running around my house, and i have yet to kill one. They kill all the other insects that come in, so i see it as that they are doing my a favor.

My dad had a work car that I got to drive at night and on weekends. Helped him take the back seat out and found a package of condoms. They weren't mine. Don't think he believed me, though.

I went to check out a 1941 willys coupe a friend told me about, in a town colse to mine. Well any way I don't know how many of you know about these cars but Gasser just about says it all. Any way I pull up all the whells are gone and I just kinda check out the outside a little and then pop the hood. I almost fainted as there sat a little 4 banger about the size of a 471 blower. It had the origanal motor in it. I have seen many of these cars but always at Famosa, the local drag strip, running big blocks of one sort or another. It was a virgin!!!!!! Joker69

When I was a kid my family built a log home out of a pre-fab kit. When the logs were shipped in nearly every log had at least one or two black widow spiders nested in the tongue and grooves. Freaked us out!

Strangest thing I ever found in my old 68 was a sawed-off single shot shotgun. The whole thing was sawed down to about 12" overall. It was tucked in the front of the seat cover, and yes it was loaded. I'm an FFL dealer so of course I immediately turned it in to the BATF to be destroyed. I ain't risking 10 years imprisonment for someone else's toy.

No, the cat was not dead. I thought if you got bit by brown recluses you died, maybe not (I never pay attention in biology.) In the junkyards in FL you can find rats, snakes, spiders, etc.

Hmmm...
 

Well, I have found two reptiles since I have owned my truck around the area that It is sitting until it's all ready. One of these guys is like a little grey lizard, like a gecko or something, it is about 5-6 inches long, maybe a bit longer. Any ways it lives in my moms gardens....it is no bother to any of us, infact I'm partial to all animals. I have 2 tortoises and a cat. I have this tall square bucket where I store all these extra bolts and stuff. It ended up sitting out over night during one of our recent rainy days here in San Antonio, TX. So I went to check on the bucket and all the rust that must have just accumulated. Well low-and-behold I find that little critter of a lizard trapped in an inch of water on a small island of rusty bolts, with no way to climb out of the bucket. I felt for the little guy and I thought he was dead, my mom likes seeing him around and I know she would feel bad so I was a little sad. I looked closer and he moved a bit...i touched him and rubbed his little back to make sure he was okay, he didn't run. So I picked him up out of his cell, and sent him away into my moms garden.

Another night It was a little damp out and I was messing with the lights, I heard something rustling leaves behind me. As I turn around I see a green/grey frog hoping about heading towards my dogs watering bowl. He was a good size about the size of a computer mouse. It was nice....so I tried to catch him and take a closer look but he wouldn't budge from under a log, so I left him alone.:bowtie:
sorry too much words:)

I have a 2000 Grand am and i had it at my grand parents house one day. They live on a farm so their are cats every where. When i went home that night i took one with me but i didn’t know it. The cat rode home siting on my exhaust Shield. Later that night i herd my car alarm go off when i went out and looked around nothing seem wrong. The next day i went out and found that my dogs had been trying to get the cat out of my engine bay all night. I opened the hood and their sat a small orange cat that didn’t look so good but was alive(for a while)

ROFLMAO!!!!

Probably 20 yrs ago was at a junyard pulling an auto. tranny out of a 69 lemans reached up to get to the top bolts and the top of the tranny moved. I moved out from under the car a he$$ of a lot quicker than I got under it. 5-6 foot black snake. Not that I don't like snakes, but just scared the shi$ out of me. Ever since, I pound on or shake a car before I poke around it. Seems to clear out mice and other critters or at least make them hide.

I'm almost afraid to ask, but why did the 'double ender' seem "vaguely familiar?" :D

Just razzing you. Great story. I hope one day to be lucky and find something on that scale. In the half dozen of these trucks I've had over the years, the most exotic thing I recall ever finding was a Canadian penny :(

Kenneth

I found a dead possum under a 70 el camino. Now I know why they call George Jones the Possum.

"So I reached down , opened the bag up and stuck my hand in and felt something that seemed vaguely familiar but I couldnt figure out what it was yet . "


It was the scale of the thing. I'm used to grabbing ahold of something much larger.