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In my '58 Jimmy I found old paper registrations and the original owners manual in the glove box. I drove it for about a year before I stripped the interior out of it. I found a couple of old pennies from the 60's and a ticket stub for a drive-in theater in San Diego.

However, my biggest surprise find was when I pulled the carpet out and discovered that the old buckets seats that someone installed had been lag bolted to a frame made of 2x4 lumber, which in turn was lag bolted to the floor. Oh yeah, the seat belts were lag bolted to the same wooden frame! Lovely!

The PO apparently had a love affair with lag bolts, sheet metal screws and wire nuts. They were holding just about everything together.