What's the worst "nest" you've found in an A-body?

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I have this monster waiting on me to clean it out tomorrow. It stretches all the way across to the instrument cluster. It's in a '69 Dart I bought a while back. I knew it was there and I wanted to pull the glovebox liner out anyway because Dodge Main taped a build sheet to the back of it.

Hopefully that's the last nest unless there are any in the heater. There were nests in both seats, in the trunk and in the trunk lid. Poop everywhere too, which is a shame because the seats and carpet are excellent. I had to drag it all out and clean it. That is S&H greens stamps visible in the nesting. They parked this thing in a barn 20 years ago and left it. I figure that was a rat based on the size of the droppings and the nest pieces. Never saw any live inhabitants.

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Didn't find it till i opened the vents on my old dart doing 60 mph and wearing shorts!
 
That is definitely the worst one I ever saw. That was not a mouse. there was some serious size to that creature. Gremlin maybe? Some of that paper is balled up like it had hands.
 
My 73 swinger, the entire cowl was packed with mouse nest. It took several hours to get it all out.
My 73 dart sport, all the insulation under the headliner is chewed up and collected in the back. It still spews out occasionally when i drive.
 
Not so much a nest but I did find a possum skeleton and 3 or 4 piles of petrified possum poop in the space under rear vent window in my Daughter's 59 Studebaker Silver Hawk. I could only guess that the possum squeezed his way in there and could find his way back out, then pooped and starved himself to death:

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No nests in my car but it did have a fair amount of Hells Angels stuff stuck up in the dash.

A realy cool lighter that I gave to a old timer, some match books and support the red and white pamphlets.

Also had a D handle spade shovel in the trunk.

Really makes ya wonder just what my car was involved in before I got her?
 
In my duster a few years back i was cleaning it out after winter storage and picked up my wifes sweater she left in the back seat, stood outside the car and smelled something funky....bam a bloated mouse dropped out and exploded on my shoes!! Nasty!!
 
Not an a body but I bought a heater box for my d100 from a buddy of mine who lives out in the country. He told me to take it apart before I tried to use it because he stored it outside and mice always invade stuff out there.
Sure enough, when I opened it up at home I found a huge mouse nest AND this guy! And he was packin'! He probably got sick of his noisy mouse neighbors.....:lol:

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Bought a 65 Sport Satellite back in the 80s. Had the little rot hole above the drivers sun visor , didn't think much about it. Got off work one hot summer day on the interstate the headliner came apart at the seams (windows down). A whirl wind of insulation, mouse ****, nesting and dead mice inside the car. In my mouth , eyes and nose, sticking to my sweaty body. Had to pull to the shoulder let it air out and regroup. That sucked.
 
I swore something made a mess under the original bucket seats in my 65, but it turned out to be the seat bun that had turned to the same stuff that flower arangements are stuck into: sort of a powdered foam. **** was flying everywhere when I drove with the windows down. I climbed a pole to get to a telephone terminal. When I opened it, a rat jumped out about 6 feet to the nearby tree.
 
I bought a 72 dart swinger from a little old school teacher a few years back, she bought it new, when I looked in the trunk it was full of shoes, I asked her if she wanted to keep them and she said just throw them away. When i got it home and cleaned it out there were about 20 pairs of shoes and 6 umbrellas!
 
Be sure to wear some throw away coveralls and a mask and goggles. All kinds of things to be had in there that you may not recover from. Hantavirus is not your friend... having said that, that looks like ground squirrels have been living in there.
 
Treblig said:
Not so much a nest but I did find a possum skeleton and 3 or 4 piles of petrified possum poop in the space under rear vent window in my Daughter's 59 Studebaker Silver Hawk. I could only guess that the possum squeezed his way in there and could find his way back out, then pooped and starved himself to death:

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That is a beautiful Studebaker !
 
The rad cap was left off and they filled the radiator with nest and droppings. Took hours of flushing to get it clean.
And the entire headliner became a nest.
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Treblig said:
Not so much a nest but I did find a possum skeleton and 3 or 4 piles of petrified possum poop in the space under rear vent window in my Daughter's 59 Studebaker Silver Hawk. I could only guess that the possum squeezed his way in there and could find his way back out, then pooped and starved himself to death:

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My all time fave car !! (58, or 59)
 
I’ve always had bad luck with yellow jackets and paper wasps building multiple nests. My favorite story was a local mechanic with a private junk yard sent someone to get something out from under a dashboard and he came back empty handed, white and shaking. He got his hands in there and and a black snake started crawling out the cowl of the car from across his hands. He just froze in place until he seen it go off the side of the car. Swore up and down it was four feet long!
 
I parked my '65 Valiant bracket racer in the garage on the cattle ranch we lived on. It began to stink inside the vehicle to high hell but I could not locate the source. The smell eventually diminished on its own after a long time passed.

Then one day I had the driver's side door panel off. Found a dead mouse lying in the bottom of the door (no nest). It was all dried up and mummified by that time.
 
I'm surprised at the "legs" this thread has had with so many stories.....


Mouse legs, possum legs, rat legs, lizard legs......:rofl:
 
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Shot out a few mice out of turbo mufflers once!
Like a potato canon....LOL
 
When a buddy and I flew out to Oklahoma and drove an RV back to Arizona it was infested with a shitload of those huge red wasps they have out there.
One example is that we were getting pretty bad gas mileage and once we got back with it I did a complete tune up on it.
In the air filter housing snorkel was a mud ball wasp nest about the size of a tennis ball.
The OK people know what I'm talking about.
There must have been 50 nests in this thing everywhere from the engine compartment to the generator box
I'm not really afraid of bees or wasps in general, but these guys looked like they would leave something resembling a stab wound if they stung you.:D
 
TrailBeast said:
When a buddy and I flew out to Oklahoma and drove an RV back to Arizona it was infested with a shitload of those huge red wasps they have out there.
One example is that we were getting pretty bad gas mileage and once we got back with it I did a complete tune up on it.
In the air filter housing snorkel was a mud ball wasp nest about the size of a tennis ball.
The OK people know what I'm talking about.
There must have been 50 nests in this thing everywhere from the engine compartment to the generator box
I'm not really afraid of bees or wasps in general, but these guys looked like they would leave something resembling a stab wound if they stung you.:D
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A stab wound would hurt less!
 
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