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Subject:Re: A new thread . . .
From:Michael Townsend
Date:Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:24:00 -0500

> What is the most interesting "thing" (that could mean a story, too) that
> you found in/about your van after buying it from a PO?
>

My DPO didn't even clean the van, so I had coffee spills down the walls
beside the two remaining unbroken cupholders.  Under the back seat was
disgusting.  I removed the rear heater because the core had a very fine
leak, and I found:

candy wrappers, styrofoam packing peanut pieces in the blower fan (and I
thought the motor was shot!), needles from several Chrismtas tree hauls,
craft beads, a Lithium watch battery, some change that I couldn't identify
due to the "scrunge" on the coins, peanuts, and worst of all -- some dried
beans!  Unfortunately, they had soaked up the coolant, so they were no
longer dried.  They smelled like Boston Baked beans with some Glycol-mutated
mold growing on them!

You never know what's lurking under that rear heater . . .

Michael Townsend
townsend@rtp.ericsson.se