Another equally unsettling example comes from The Scrappers in Bolton. Its boss, Terry Walker, tells a rather terrifying story<\/a> of discovering a group of rats clustered in one particular scrap car. The most horrifying part was that this discovery was made when the car had already been hoisted 30 feet into the air.<\/p>\n \u201cThey all leapt out, hit the ground, going splat, but they didn\u2019t die.\u201d He said. \u201cThey just got back on their feet and ran off as though they\u2019d been on a fairground ride. It was completely barmy. There must have been at least 20 of them.\u201d Rather him than us!<\/p>\n Some discoveries are a little more heartwarming, though. Terry also tells of having discovered a small kitten in one scrap car, which he deduced had travelled 20 miles from Oldham to Bolton. It was eventually reunited with its owners!<\/p>\n Abandoned items in scrap cars might not necessarily be horrifying when you find them, but even so, you\u2019d probably wish you hadn\u2019t. A lot of dealers, mechanics and breakers periodically find sex toys in the vehicles they take apart, including vibrators and fluffy handcuffs. Maybe not quite such an issue if the car in question is about to be taken apart, but if you\u2019re an unlucky new owner who\u2019d planned to be driving it around, you\u2019d probably want to give your new purchase one last blitz with the bleach, just in case.<\/p>\n Other cars might be home to equally distinctive reminders of love, ranging from the deeply treasured – such as the ultrasound image left in one Scottish car – to the merely poignant, such as the old wedding ring left attached to the spare key of a car sold in England.<\/p>\n There are, apparently, people who\u2019ve been known to leave body parts in the cars they\u2019ve rented or sold. Thankfully not the fleshy kind, just prosthetics – but in many ways, these aren\u2019t nice to stumble across either. The customer of one car rental company in Liverpool was apparently a fairly easy-going person. So easy-going, in fact, that they failed to notice they\u2019d gone home without their prosthetic arm. The report doesn\u2019t explicitly state that it wasn\u2019t left clutching the steering wheel like Thing T. Thing from the Addams Family, so we\u2019re forced to assume that it was.<\/p>\n And we\u2019re not squeamish here at Scrap Car Network, but even so, we think we really wouldn\u2019t be too happy discovering a prosthetic eye in the back of a car we\u2019d received, as one UK car rental company did. The owner never returned to get it, which we think was a little shortsighted of them. Presumably they just decided to overlook it.<\/p>\n We can identify with this one – we occasionally find the odd coin ourselves during the course of our car recycling here at Scrap Car Network. But that\u2019s nothing compared to the \u00a310,000 found in a large envelope under the passenger seat of a car in Melksham in Wiltshire. You know funnily enough, that owner did manage to find the time to return for that particular item.<\/p>\n Or turning to the States, a Jalopnik user tells the story of a used car dealership which found a swathe of hundred-dollar bills in the car they won at auction. All that was counterfeit, though – which does raise a couple of pressing questions about the integrity of its former owner.<\/p>\n Some investments are a little more\u2026 substantial. Another Jalopnik user recalls the particularly frustrating journey they spent struggling with their tyres, which eventually went flat. After a little further investigation, they realised why – the car was weighed down by multiple bars of solid silver.<\/p>\n Before you scrap your car, we recommend giving it one last once-over. You know, just in case there are any exotic animals, lovemaking aids or bullion hoards still in there that might have slipped your mind. Whatever the case though, you can always count on us here at Scrap Car Network to get the best price for your car. It only takes 10 seconds to find out how much your car is worth \u2013 just\u00a0enter your car reg and postcode<\/a>\u00a0into the fields on our site, and we\u2019ll get you your very own instant scrap car quote!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We process over 10,000 cars every year here at Scrap Car Network, and we\u2019ve found our fair share of strange stuff in them from time to time. Upon a little further investigation, it seems we\u2019re not the only ones. Breakers, mechanics and new owners have sometimes stumbled on some pretty shocking stuff in cars that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n![\"Snake-on-a-car\"](\"https:\/\/www.scrapcarnetwork.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Snake-on-a-car.jpg\")
<\/p>\nEnd-of-Life cars with a whole lotta love<\/h2>\n
Spare parts, anyone?<\/h2>\n
Money money money<\/h2>\n