Found under the spare tire of my 300cd the 3 wrenchs for adjusting the valves.

In the chamber behind the right speaker of my '64 Porsche I found the wrapping from limburger cheese, all writing in german! Now, thats wierd, , ,

This is actually funny. I worked at HP R&D and the old guys there used to talk about an engineer with a beige 240d just like mine. He had retired before I started. Apparently he really babied the car and it was kind of a joke among the engineers. The guy was an analog circuit designer. The lab was in Palo Alto in the building where Tesla resides today.

I cannot recall the guys name but I think he was Chinese. Maybe. The lab was a pretty small place. 500 employees.

I would be so excited if it was the same guy....

This has to be the same car... Not Chinese, however. Jim Eaton.
I've looked him up, but sadly, don't think he's still around.

Aside from the weird issues I've probably created myself, this car has clearly been babied.

I mounted one of the name tags in the trunk as a sort of homage.

It’s possible. My memory is failing me because all this stuff happened twenty years ago. I just contacted my friend who mentioned the engineer with the 240D and asked about it.

I looked up Jim Eaton online. He’s a real old timer from the Bill and Dave days. I signed on in the dot com and undoubtedly worked with people who knew him but he was retired by then. We certainly worked in the same department and my mentors must have worked for or with him.

During the 1990s there was a guy named Gary Gordon who drove a pristine metallic green 300D. He was famous for inventing the first optical mouse sensor. I almost bought his car after it went through one of the attorneys in Agilent Legal. But there weren’t too many people up there with these cars. They were expensive for an engineer’s budget.

I forgot to mention the craziest thing I found in my car. In my blue 1985 300d I found $35 in loose change scattered mostly under the front seats. Apparently the PO had a habit of losing change and not retrieving it. It was like a treasure pile under there. My kids scooped up cup after cup of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and a few Susan B. Dollars when I pulled the seats. They really had a blast.

unopened pack of sauerkraut under carpet under passenger seat. Must have been there from assembly line when a worker ate lunch in car.

We were three months short of being married 30 yrs.
 

I still love her but I don't miss her at all. I've gone 12 years without speaking to her and only did I break that because of an issue with one of our kids.

She wants to be buried side by side so I'm giving my body to science. :) no chit

50 gallon second fuel tank wrapped in carpet welded in tied into the stock fuel tank.

Thus giving me 75 gallons of fuel capacity and 1650 mile range.

andddd the i got to lower the car 3 inches without coilovers or cut springs lol :) 600 lbs of weight in fuel did the trick haha

History
 

Thanx Clemson .

I can't say I still love my ex but she did give me my son so that gets her a pass .

:eek:

Put a brush guard on it and you have the start of a great apocalypse vehicle

Bear repellent pulling parts in a yard car.

1981 240D bought in 2019. Under the back seat a 2nd gen. Iphone with a broken screen. Powered up after charge.

It is not a Mercedes,but on a Porsche I found bullet holes on the firewall and under the dash.It was not so weird because the car belonged to a know criminal in the 90's and he survived shooting in that car by crawling under the dash :D .He was not so lucky couple of months after that attempt...And also as other's have said various hand gun,money,knifes,bats used to be "normal" to find in cars,especially when working with sport's and high end luxury cars :cool:

Heard of someone that bought an 1980's Cutlass at auction and later found a little button while cleaning the interior. He pressed it and the bottom half of the back seat popped up to reveal a decent sized smuggler's compartment (empty).

Also heard of guys restoring 1960's American cars and finding Coke bottles welded inside body panels, or a handful of loose hex nuts in an inaccessible place if the car was manufactured just prior to or during a union strike. The future owner would be stuck with an annoying rattle for the life of the car, and intentionally have a poor experience with that the brand.

I'm Brooklyn based so just dozens and dozens of chicken bones in the engine bay every time I do a deep dive.

The rats pull them from the garbage and go up in to feast.

Also an entire mummified bird in the blower motor of a car I'd just bought with "no heat/AC".

I only have morbid finds....