Things you find in places where they shouldn't be...

[Oddjob]

I find my spare fluids and grease behind my number plate. Does that count?!

[Larry S]

I find my spare fluids and grease behind my number plate. Does that count?!

No that's an interesting mod!!!

 

Larry

[Oddjob]

How about when I found my mug on my wing...!

[370abc]

Well preserved mouse in the air cleaner of my stored 80". Conical pre cleaner missing.

[22900013A]

When stripping down the dash of my ex electricity board series 3 I found an original biro engraved with "southern electricity" down the side, plus various nails and cleats that would have been used on the poles.
Someone stripping down a similar vehicle found a letter to a customer advising them of an interruption to their power, dated in the 1970s!

[diffwhine]

How about when I found my mug on my wing...!

What's happened to the teapot?

[Oddjob]

That happened after I lost the mug.

[Scotty]

Hi, not a Land Rover but I traded in my 1969 Morris Oxford for a Mini Moke back in the early 90's and when going over it I found a tobacco tin stashed up in under the steering column with a rather smelly contents, I phoned the seller and he arrived promptly to collect it  , my favourite find that was left in a car was a Bakelite hand held torch that worked by squeezing a trigger, that was found in an Austin A30  Paul

[TimV]

While stripping a S3 dash, I found a large ceramic fuse holder fallen into the gap, along with several pens.

[Beowulf]

Many years ago (I often find myself saying that because there are just so many of them) while driving home after collecting the car from the garage, there was a strange sound from the engine bay when I turned left & right, like a regular clicking/ticking sound. Arriving home a quick search found the culprit, the garage had left a screwdriver on a flat surface within the engine bay, and when turning left and right, it would roll one way and then the other. 
And then there was the time a Duckhams one gallon oil can caused my Rover P6 to fail its Mot. A previous owner had used the can to patch up the underside of the car and although they`d done their best to hide it with black paint, Mr MoT inspector found it.

[Herald1360]

I finally traced an odd rattle on tickover on my first Land Rover ('63 2A 109 diesel) to a tow hitch drop plate between the underseat battery box side panel and its hefty 6V Dagenite.

Most impressive find was a lump hammer in the NSF wing of a Chevette (which I bought with some minor accident damage to said wing).

[diffwhine]

I have a 15/16 ring spanner which I used to use mainly doing suspension bush jobs on Range Rover Classics. I did one and realised that it had disappeared after finishing the job. Nearly 12 months later, the same vehicle came back to us for a service and an MOT. I bunged it up on the lift and started to do a pre-MOT check. There, still attached to the rear lower trailing arm nut on the back axle, was my spanner... How it stayed on a live Range Rover axle for a year defeats me, but it was well and truly rusted it on. I had to beat it off with a hammer!

[22900013A]

While stripping a S3 dash, I found a large ceramic fuse holder fallen into the gap, along with several pens.

Ex electricity board?

[Theshed]

I did a job on a FL2 and left my magnetic torch up under there following the build up.
Traced car following morning, peeled back the liner, and there it was !

[Alan Drover]

I lost a plug spanner years ago. I found it very much later attached to the wing mirror under wing fixing nut on my Minivan. I presume the rubber insert stopped it falling off.