I decided to take out the headliner in my '51 GMC and do a bit of cleaning the other night and was surprised to find quite a complete (but apparently unoccupied) mouse nest in the front section (abov
--WebTV-Mail-527-3276 In the glove compartment of my 1949 Chevy pickup I found a receipt from Turners Skelly Service in Oshkosh, Nebraska dated 6/21/5? Chassis Lubrication......$1.50 Oil Change...5qt
We've heard some good stories about interesting finds in our old trucks, such as Al and Guy's hornet nests and now Gordons mice so I thought I'd mention my interesting find. I bought an ole '54 panel
About the only thing I ever found that was of interest, well to me anyways... I was gutting out the interior of my '50 Chevy 3100 and I found under the gas tank a lost name tag of mine from ten years
In the '55-1 panel I restored, I found a small bag of marijuana tucked up over the drivers door and in the '39 I'm working on I found a stash of condoms behind the wiper motor access panel. There's m
i still have the 56 longbed that I learned to drive in, some 30 some odd years ago. After dad died and I got the truck, I found underneath the rubber mat under the seat a girlie calendar, dad was nev
The mice had gotten into my truck when it was in storage and removed every bit of seat stuffing. The headliner was also sagging but I never put 2 and 2 together. When I removed the headliner the othe
Author: "Durwood B. Darbin" <dhckdkcsk@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:30:14 GMT
Hello All, When I got my truck the floor was covered with green shag carpeting. When I removed it I discovered that there was no floor! I didn't have any problems with mice and still don't. I guess t
My experience exactly. A floorless truck is a great deterrent to mouse Jon Callahan '50 3100 Champaign/Urbana, Illinois oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
The Hanta virus is nasty stuff for sure. We are on the farm here in Saskatchewan, and is found in old grain bins. We have to be very careful when shoveling these out. It is related more to the deer m
We find it in old cabins we sell and sometimes spray with Clorox before cleaning them. We have had no local deaths so far but the virus does exist in our area we are certain. We also air places out w
When I pulled the gas tank out of The Forty, and dug out the dirt caked around it, I must have uncovered over a hundred .22 shell casings. My Dad fired most of them but I may have fired a few, as we
Back in the '50s and '60s, my dad used to drop his spare change down into his gas tank on all his Chevy trucks. He traded trucks every two years, and when he would go to Chattanooga, TN to buy a new
And we wonder why we have so find so may gas tank/line problems while we're working on our trucks. :-) wayne Wayne Osborne 1956 Chevy Pickup LaGrange Ga. http://www.chevytrucks.org/users/wayne oletru
Yak, but I wouldn't complain if I found $300 in the tank, in fact, that would buy a new tank! Regards, Doug Pewterbaugh dpewter@msn.com Denton, TX 49 3104 216 5-window oletrucks is devoted to Chevy a
In 1957 that was about a 20% downpayment. don't ask how I know Tom Warner 58 short fleetside former owner of a few built hemi's oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
Author: "Woods E. Houghton" <woodecindy@caverns.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:50:41 -0600
I teach environmental science and vector control. This is no kidding serious. When cleaning mouse urine wear a respirator not a dust mask. one like you use to paint with. wear eye protection!! and sp
I wasn't planning on cleaning, but I was driving my '53 and pushed on the headliner near the mirror. The headliner cracked and over 5lbs of ball shaped bird seed fell on me, into the dash, and all ov