Mouse condo in my headliner, sorry you got to go......
What's the worst "nest" you've found in an A-body?
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I bought a 71 charger roller few years back, it had been sitting in a Missouri shed for decades. I swear I cleaned out TWO gallon buckets of dirt dauber nests!!! WE don't ever even count red wasp nests, just a given.
MopaR&D
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We have pretty constant issues with mice around here, my Duster has been sitting 2 years in our garage and there's definitely evidence of mice getting in the interior... had an old bag of beef jerky that looked like it got hit with a lawnmower lol. We had a family living in the garage, killed the 2 parents and was still seeing mice so I had to get better traps, killed 3 more smaller mice now we're finally good. Until spring comes of course. Thank God we have cats they kill so many vermin during the warmer months.
george joseph reid
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Have seen all kinds of critters. Mice hoarding dog food in a air filter box till it hardly ran. A fairly new Olds Alero from a Indian Reservation with the Dead mouse stink. Followed his greasy hair trail through the cowl, heater box and found the puffed up Corpse under the rear carpet. Worst job I ever ran into and they paid dearly. Funniest one was a 90s Suburban towed in crank no start. 454 with the separate coil. The 2 wire harness to the Dist was chewed in half. Easy fix. About a week later it came back same thing and the customer s pissed. So I go out to the lot, pop the hood and a Rabbit is sitting on the Dist munching on the same wires. Gently closed the hood and got the Boss with a camera to check my Story out. Should have been on Mugshots. Had half the shop out there LOL. When we told the customer about it with the pic she asked if the Bunny is OK. Funny that Bugs took a 30 mile flat bed tow and was still munching away. The worst are Hornets of any kind. Highly Alergic. When I was a kid back in NY was changing oil on a older Dodge van. When I popped the hood there was a 3 foot Boa Constrictor sitting on the heater box. Must have crawled up there when it was warm then went into shut down mode as it got colder. I have found drugs,$$$ and guns in cars. A 10K Rolex under a back seat. Chasing a new car rattle found a complete set of Snap-on 1/4 black industrial sockets. Still have them.
MopaR&D
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That's insane, I doubt I would find money, drugs or guns in used cars around here as this is ranch country lol. Might find some farm tools, ammo and dead animals though. But if I went down to Denver... might be a different story
george joseph reid
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We had the service contract for Vegas PD under cover cars. Every back seat came out on those rigs, even for oil changes.
In early 2000 I worked for a Cadillac dealer and there was a Chrysler dealer next door and my friend Ron worked there . One day Ron came over and said you got to see this so I went next door and everyone was looking at this caravan that got towed in for a no start, there was a ground hog sitting on the rear exhaust manifold eyes wide open with 3 coil wires in it's mouth. When the customer tried to start it it killed the ground hog instantly. I had a picture of it at one time but can't find it now.
Cuda Al
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Not an abody but found this in a Polara looking for the broadcast sheet, sometime later I needed to fix the seatbelt on the same car. Looks like the rodents used the trough to get to the belt.
Alan
This is what we need.
TylerW
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LOL there are some funny stories in here, especially the electrocuted ground hog...hahaha....
Well I got that mess out of there finally. The SOB packed it all the way back to the wiper motor. It filled a 13 gallon trash bag up. It had to be some version of a squirrel because the thing pulled entire pages in there intact, along with plastic and several sheets of Top Value and Plaid stamps. FORTUNATELY it didn't attack the wiring or anything else...so far. The glovebox liner is a goner because the top was it's bathroom I guess, plus it had a hole chewed in the side of it. Not sure whether the headliner is going to survive. It's very nice other than a hole chewed through it at the passenger C-pillar and one over the passenger visor. Sure is a nice color combo inside....black dash and carpet, tan seats and door panels on a gold car.
I'm treating with enzyme smell remover now, but I'm pretty sure the residents moved out quite some time ago because it doesn't really smell bad. I did suit up and mask up. Don't know why anyone would keep one of these nasty MF'ers as a pet.
Well I got that mess out of there finally. The SOB packed it all the way back to the wiper motor. It filled a 13 gallon trash bag up. It had to be some version of a squirrel because the thing pulled entire pages in there intact, along with plastic and several sheets of Top Value and Plaid stamps. FORTUNATELY it didn't attack the wiring or anything else...so far. The glovebox liner is a goner because the top was it's bathroom I guess, plus it had a hole chewed in the side of it. Not sure whether the headliner is going to survive. It's very nice other than a hole chewed through it at the passenger C-pillar and one over the passenger visor. Sure is a nice color combo inside....black dash and carpet, tan seats and door panels on a gold car.
I'm treating with enzyme smell remover now, but I'm pretty sure the residents moved out quite some time ago because it doesn't really smell bad. I did suit up and mask up. Don't know why anyone would keep one of these nasty MF'ers as a pet.
Found about a 4' long snake skin in this one, my guess he was after the field mice.
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