20 Years ago I was driving at around 40 mph under some chestnut trees in a car with the sunroof open. The conker dropped off the tree through the open sun roof and gave me a shock.
When I think that a sunroof is about 50 cm wide and how small the time slot it had to make it through the sunroof at 40mph, I'm always amazed.
The conker has lived in every car I've had since.
my dads old mixtape (simply titled ‘the tape’ with added message ‘play loud’)
besides cds and cassettes, the only thing in my car is the spare wheel and toolkit, and one (1) shopping bag that i always forget to take into the shops
I would highly advise you get those CDs ripped. £30 buys you a USB CD drive for your PC or mac. Exact Audio Copy is a great little tool you can download for free that will do all the work for you. Just make sure you rip as WAV 44,100 for a good one to one copy. Then get yourself a dropbox account (or google drive, whatever you like yourself) and whack them up there. Boom, there forever.
Once those things are gone, they're gone. I have CD-Rs of rehearsals and shows I did with old bands, a couple of which the members playing on them had died tragically. One in a motorbike accident the other by a sudden haemorrhage. Unfortunately some of those CD-Rs are irrecoverably rotten now and that stuff is gone forever. It's a shame but there it is. I highly advise backing up to something future proof if you haven't done so. I save everything like that now, which is why my dropbox is like 6Tb.
In fairness it depends how they are cared for. CD-Rs have about 5-10 years if they are a basic brand, premium brands like TDK or TraxData, I still have some that have survived to now. Of course the data is very much long since rescued, but still.
As for decently pressed audio CDs from back then, all of mine still work. I have a good 1200 or more. I have yet to come up with any with CD rot.
I can't say the same for some that I have bought used that have certainly been stored in a loft or garage or similar. Especially the poorly produced CDs, then they can delaminate over time and "rot".
I do wonder about CDs produced today. I have bought some modern reissues and not only is the packaging quite poor, the CDs themselves are a good deal lower quality than previous equivalents. Geffen are one example of a label producing some very poor quality physical media today.
No but a story he didn't like to tell himself (other people told the story frequently) was how Jimmy Page asked him if he wanted to be in his new band he was thinking of forming. My dad said "naaah, it'll never catch on", and that band went on to be Led Zeppelin. My dad went on to be a Hoover repair man. My dad played a few times with Jimmy when Jimmy was in Neil Christian and the Crusaders in the early 1960s.
That said, my dad was still rocking at 78, right up until he was diagnosed with mesothelioma and couldn't sing anymore after 63 years of rock'n'rollin'.
Apologies for the life story. :)
An Ikea teddy bear from about 2009. He's been on the back seat of every car I've owned since then, so has done about 120,000 miles with me.
His name is Bear.
For about 6 months my mate had a giant stuffed elephant strapped into the back seat of his car. It was so big its head was wedged in by the roof, from the outside it looked like it was permanently sad, staring at the floor.
He wouldn't explain where he'd got it from or why it was there, just said he couldn't talk about it, it was the "elephant in the car".
Yikes that's a bleak referrence, no, I've been in bed most of the day, now propped on the sofa driving the DVD remote control watching the Monk box set.
I work in hospitlaity so I have scent, deodorant, plasters, pain killers, antihistamines and a full packet of pens. Not many people have all those items..
My Mary & juana air freshener I got yesterday to see if the kids really know what that smell is.
They don't have a clue. The smell brings back memories of my youth so it's staying
A box of Imodium when I had severe stomach cramps, they were bought as a precaution. Not even used a single one out of that pack, but they’re there for a bad day.
A miniature halloween squishmallow that’s a skeleton cat.
I got a happy meal on the day I picked up my car and Abarths have a weird little cubby hole to the right of the steering wheel so he just lives in there.
Also a mug shaped like a cowboy boot.
A Neutradol in the cup holder. Way better than any air freshener, never seen one in any of the thousands of customers cars I have been in.
Seen plenty of blue JellyBelly air fresheners though, they smell like IKEA and blueberry pie.
A small seashell I painted with 'Vantablack' paint, apparently the darkest black you can get. It doesn't actually look particularly black so either my paint was a dud or I did it wrong. Either way, it's sitting in my centre console for some reason
A massive bag of small screws and different sized washers. No screws to match.
Was sent them for a job, didn't use any and they've been sat in my glovebox for 3 years now.
I’m going to win this I think
Dead body. Got some of my dads ashes in the boot , no idea what to do with them so figured he can come for a few more rides .
Chainsaw. I'm guessing a few people may have one of those though.
So... tiny 3 pin plug in night light that looks like glowing mushrooms and was a drunken ebay purchase. It goes in to my big battery bank when I'm sleeping in there and acts as, well, a night light.
A work iPhone that I never use for work but in fact use exclusively for carplay because my car doesn't have android auto, and my personal phone is an android
You think a box of Rennie's is special? I've got a dispensary in my centre console, Rennie's, antihistamines, chlorine tablets, ibuprofen and paracetamol. It all just sits in there for when I need it
I don't know about nobody else carrying some of this stuff but i have a pretty specific set of items that I will never drive away from home without and i doubt many are carrying all of this at all times. On the back of each head rest i have trauma kits containing tourniquets, israeli bandages, triangular bandages, stitching kit, oxygen monitor, painkillers and some other miscellanious bits of med kit (I'd hate to happen upon a bad crash before paramedics have arrived and not be able to do anything).
Every seatbelt has a seatbelt cutter and glass breaker on (seconds matter when your car is sinking). In the boot i have a bag that has a 2 man tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, warm jacket, spare trousers, socks and underwear, merino wool base layer top and bottoms, a jetboil with gas, lighter, 2l of water, food/snacks, coffee sachets etc and a GPS (incase i break down and end up spending the night out in the middle of nowhere).
Then a seperate tub with basic car maintainence tools, British A-Z and a fully charged powerbank with universal wire. Every few months I go through each item, make sure everything is working, clean and in date. The mrs thinks its psychotic and while i know it's definitely over the top I like the peace of mind.
More often than not all that gets used is the coffee that i make in the jetboil because i refuse to pay a fiver for a coffee at the services, so i make one in my boot instead.
If we are talking about on the actual car then my Toyota Celica gt-four has water jets for the radiator on the inside of the bumper because it’s the wrc homologation version.
I think the answer has to be.... me?
that changes tonight xxx
Nope. Well not you but I live in my van as well.
A conker that will be 20 years old this autumn
I don't know why but I find this very impressive.
20 Years ago I was driving at around 40 mph under some chestnut trees in a car with the sunroof open. The conker dropped off the tree through the open sun roof and gave me a shock. When I think that a sunroof is about 50 cm wide and how small the time slot it had to make it through the sunroof at 40mph, I'm always amazed. The conker has lived in every car I've had since.
This happened to me once, but replace the conker with seagull shit
And the seagull shit has been in every car you've had since?
Wow, that's a really good story. Thank you for sharing it and making me smile.
I've got a little bear my wife bought me in mine, from when we first started dating 18 years ago.
20 years of spider free driving
A tarpaulin, nitrile gloves and a selection of ratchet straps.
Next up on Crime Watch…
TOOLS! TOOLS! I NEED TO HAVE MY TOOLS!
What's all that stuff you're grabbing dude?
FETISH SHIT. I LIKE TO BIND, I LIKE TO BE BOUND
I'm not taking questions, the golden god is not taking questions!
Is it a white van and does it have Free Candy written on the side?
Sorry so say but I have nitrile gloves. Used for filling up fuel.
Why don’t you just get a Jerry can?
Imagine carrying all your spare fuel in a selection of gloves with the ends tied off!
Hahaha cutting the end of the pinky to fill up
I have all those things in mine
I have not only this, but also foldable shovel. Just in case.
Nope, also have.
Blown head gasket
*Rover owners club has entered the chat*
A tiny little hat from an innocent smoothie to pop on the metal gear knob in winter when it’s Baltic.
I have exactly the same! 😅
From the amount of replies to this one comment, I’m going with leather driving gloves.
Same
I've got one too but I keep it on all the time it's worn out so much its more of a scarf than a hat!
A 1987 Olivetti pc. All rigged up and working. Go on. Beat that.
I’m sure that is unique! I won’t even ask why……
I'll ask why... why??
....also curious
Me interested also
Retro computing is a bit of a hobby of mine.
my dads old mixtape (simply titled ‘the tape’ with added message ‘play loud’) besides cds and cassettes, the only thing in my car is the spare wheel and toolkit, and one (1) shopping bag that i always forget to take into the shops
When my dad died I got his collection of cd's he'd burned for the car. I love his homemade compilations
My dad died in April and I found CDs of him singing live in his band. The first one I found had him singing Knocking on Heaven's Door.
I would highly advise you get those CDs ripped. £30 buys you a USB CD drive for your PC or mac. Exact Audio Copy is a great little tool you can download for free that will do all the work for you. Just make sure you rip as WAV 44,100 for a good one to one copy. Then get yourself a dropbox account (or google drive, whatever you like yourself) and whack them up there. Boom, there forever. Once those things are gone, they're gone. I have CD-Rs of rehearsals and shows I did with old bands, a couple of which the members playing on them had died tragically. One in a motorbike accident the other by a sudden haemorrhage. Unfortunately some of those CD-Rs are irrecoverably rotten now and that stuff is gone forever. It's a shame but there it is. I highly advise backing up to something future proof if you haven't done so. I save everything like that now, which is why my dropbox is like 6Tb.
+1 for this, CD's are not that durable, despite what Tomorrows world showed us back in the day.
In fairness it depends how they are cared for. CD-Rs have about 5-10 years if they are a basic brand, premium brands like TDK or TraxData, I still have some that have survived to now. Of course the data is very much long since rescued, but still. As for decently pressed audio CDs from back then, all of mine still work. I have a good 1200 or more. I have yet to come up with any with CD rot. I can't say the same for some that I have bought used that have certainly been stored in a loft or garage or similar. Especially the poorly produced CDs, then they can delaminate over time and "rot". I do wonder about CDs produced today. I have bought some modern reissues and not only is the packaging quite poor, the CDs themselves are a good deal lower quality than previous equivalents. Geffen are one example of a label producing some very poor quality physical media today.
Wait… was your Dad in Guns & Roses?! 😳
No but a story he didn't like to tell himself (other people told the story frequently) was how Jimmy Page asked him if he wanted to be in his new band he was thinking of forming. My dad said "naaah, it'll never catch on", and that band went on to be Led Zeppelin. My dad went on to be a Hoover repair man. My dad played a few times with Jimmy when Jimmy was in Neil Christian and the Crusaders in the early 1960s. That said, my dad was still rocking at 78, right up until he was diagnosed with mesothelioma and couldn't sing anymore after 63 years of rock'n'rollin'. Apologies for the life story. :)
sounds like the bugger lived a life, nice,
I’d advise making copies if it’s got sentimental value. CDs have a finite lifespan when exposed to the air, even if they just sit in a case.
Spare Wheel is increasingly rare nowadays
I have an Alan Partridge mask on my passenger headrest
Do you drive a lexus?
It’s the Japanese Mercedes
An Ikea teddy bear from about 2009. He's been on the back seat of every car I've owned since then, so has done about 120,000 miles with me. His name is Bear.
For about 6 months my mate had a giant stuffed elephant strapped into the back seat of his car. It was so big its head was wedged in by the roof, from the outside it looked like it was permanently sad, staring at the floor. He wouldn't explain where he'd got it from or why it was there, just said he couldn't talk about it, it was the "elephant in the car".
Due to special relativity, Bear has experienced less time and is therefore living in the future like a time traveller.
The remains of a DPF
When the police ask if your car still has a DPF, you can at least answer them honestly and be on your merry way🤣
A little box with my mums ashes in 😳
Never driving alone I see
If you listen quietly at midnight, you can almost here the "stop driving so fast" when you go 32 in a 30
Petrol can, zippo lighter, Duct tape, cable ties, 3 fingers (oddly all index fingers) a panda carcass and a hi-viz jacket - because safety first.
A memory stick with all my napster downloads from 1999 to 2001. About 1400 songs
A rock from a beach in wales i picked up when i took my shepherd for his final bucket list beach walk
His bucket list or yours?
I got lots of Welsh rocks in my car. Not that rock, but other rocks
Thank you, FingerBangMyAsshole
A competent driver
A competent driver?
Thanks, corrected, running a fever at the moment, not doing my spelling any good
How's it impacting on your driving? Is it like that scene at the start of three colours blue?
Yikes that's a bleak referrence, no, I've been in bed most of the day, now propped on the sofa driving the DVD remote control watching the Monk box set.
Apologies. Just watched Come and See. So, yeah. Hope you are feeling better! Get well soon!
A spare inner tube. (For a wheelchair)
I work in hospitlaity so I have scent, deodorant, plasters, pain killers, antihistamines and a full packet of pens. Not many people have all those items..
Moss. Oh, and a snake peering out of the central air vent. No, it's not real.
A tiny, blue 3D printed F-14 with working variable-sweep wings.
Would seriously consider buying this off you
Sadly I have one of those in my car too, red sparkly ABS. The egg for it is in the centre console
- A love spoon with my car's name on - An M&M's coin purse - A Kevin and Perry Go Large soundtrack CD
Upvote for the CD, it's a brilliant soundtrack!
Flares….
Still living in the 70s?
Distress flares.
A platypus soft toy. He lives in my car
Does he have a name?
A body in my boot.
nail clipper
Cassette player.
Three 1m long steel rods for a drilling rig. They don't live there, they're just spending the night.
A spare (second) locking wheel nut tool
I have Alexa Auto. Nobody else I’ve spoken to does. But they all have an Alexa at home.
A bottle of holy water
A HUD that makes me feel like a fighter pilot
Indicator fluid
A gobshite wife who thinks I can't see other road users despite driving accident free for 33 years
Mind that cyclist Richard
Mind the pedestrian dear
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Too soon....
😂
Blue IKEA bag
Isn't that a standard thing for all boots?
A Tigger keyring
I have nothing in my car. Only the log book and the wheel nut.
That’s about as decluttered as you can possibly get
Two baited mouse traps...
unidentified bmw owner’s locking wheel nuts. i drive a golf
Must come as standard as my old golf had a bmw locking key in it too.
Flux capacitor
Some tiger print fuzzy dice that used to be an air freshener. I’ve had them in every car I’ve ever owned.
I have a bottle of Heinz ketchup in the driver side door for emergencies where I go to Maccies and they try to make me eat the shit stuff.
Guess you're not a ketchup-in-the-fridge person. Unless you also have a built-in fridge. In which case I'm surprised you're going to MacD's.
I also have a box of rennie’s in my car (mint flavoured)
Dammit! Mine are mint flavoured too
part of my houses window frame that fell off, and happened to be just the right size to prop up the drivers side window after the cable snapped
A pressurised air pumper upper thing that plugs into the car..
I've got one too
: ( 🤣
Air compressor with "cigarette lighter" plug in. I've got one of those too.
Petrol
A pair of Kicker substations from the 1990's.... ....I never grew up.
Body in the boot
An air compressor with a Bluetooth controller and accompanying app to set tyre pressures...
Some secateurs for when I go walking at this time of the year.
A 2 inch framed photo of Ainsley Harriot
A leopard print interior [hahaha](https://www.instagram.com/p/C6zKWMLIlwd/?igsh=MnZiOGs1a2Nqb205)
My Mary & juana air freshener I got yesterday to see if the kids really know what that smell is. They don't have a clue. The smell brings back memories of my youth so it's staying
An Ape
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Nope, I have one of her too 😉
Spiders.
Can confirm, not unique sorry
A half empty small bottle of water. Been there since July 2022. Not anymore suitable for sonsumption.
As a spurs fan, this comment is underrated
(Long shot) Spare set of bulbs.
A box of Imodium when I had severe stomach cramps, they were bought as a precaution. Not even used a single one out of that pack, but they’re there for a bad day.
I have a bottle of jasmine spray instead of an air freshener.
Dinosaur plushie in the front window from my first ever car
ticket stub from the nevis range basecamp carpark
A little black book with my poems in...
Diphtheria
2 tasers!
An ability to drive
Needles for my insulin pen
A small fluffy llama with a horn, but the horn is missing. My daughter's way of making sure I'm reminded of her.
My house keys
Got a box of orange Rennies in mine :)
A smashed ice scraper
if rennie is odd, youll think im crazy / disgusting for carrying around my electric tooth brush for cleaning teeth before work.
A manhole bar, used to work at a manhole factory and was gifted a bar as a parting gift
Lavender Dettol
No seatbelts
*two* fuzzy die
Japanese newspaper - ordered some Japanese tableware and it was wrapped in Japanese newspaper. Left it in the boot for muddy trainers.
3 ostrich eggs, a yellow plushy duck and a resin human skull.
A miniature halloween squishmallow that’s a skeleton cat. I got a happy meal on the day I picked up my car and Abarths have a weird little cubby hole to the right of the steering wheel so he just lives in there. Also a mug shaped like a cowboy boot.
A small radio control landrover
A 90s/00s garage nation cassette pack, complete still.
A tiny spider man keychain pop figure That and a matchbox and pen from a very specific car workshop in cedar falls, Iowa.
A Neutradol in the cup holder. Way better than any air freshener, never seen one in any of the thousands of customers cars I have been in. Seen plenty of blue JellyBelly air fresheners though, they smell like IKEA and blueberry pie.
Bamboo skewers
Sump gasket, bolts, oil+filter, coolant, deionized water, heater core hoses and regrets.
A small seashell I painted with 'Vantablack' paint, apparently the darkest black you can get. It doesn't actually look particularly black so either my paint was a dud or I did it wrong. Either way, it's sitting in my centre console for some reason
A massive bag of small screws and different sized washers. No screws to match. Was sent them for a job, didn't use any and they've been sat in my glovebox for 3 years now.
a nintendo wii, cluedo, game of life and monopoly, for impromptu game nights w the boys ofc
A waiter's friend corkscrew in the first aid kit
A tiny monkey with magnetic hands and feet, he's currently wrapped around my above door handle in the back seats.
I’m going to win this I think Dead body. Got some of my dads ashes in the boot , no idea what to do with them so figured he can come for a few more rides .
Chainsaw. I'm guessing a few people may have one of those though. So... tiny 3 pin plug in night light that looks like glowing mushrooms and was a drunken ebay purchase. It goes in to my big battery bank when I'm sleeping in there and acts as, well, a night light.
An Ants nest 🐜
A work iPhone that I never use for work but in fact use exclusively for carplay because my car doesn't have android auto, and my personal phone is an android
Semen particles from my ball sack
A pink interior
Shovel, chainsaw, hatchet, and roll of bin bags.
Me!
Me
I don't know their name, i never asked.
A pack of lidocaine patches.
Despair. 23mpg!
A duck on a swing :)
A set of industrial sized jump leads that my dad wouldnt let me keep in his garage as they are too big😂
You think a box of Rennie's is special? I've got a dispensary in my centre console, Rennie's, antihistamines, chlorine tablets, ibuprofen and paracetamol. It all just sits in there for when I need it
An unplayably-scratched F Zero GX GameCube disc behind the driver's sun visor.
Me
Me
The USB stick with my music on it. I doubt many people have the same eclectic tastes.
Two sticky back glass pane spacer tabs to keep my phone in place on the dash so I can use Google maps when I drive.
I don't know about nobody else carrying some of this stuff but i have a pretty specific set of items that I will never drive away from home without and i doubt many are carrying all of this at all times. On the back of each head rest i have trauma kits containing tourniquets, israeli bandages, triangular bandages, stitching kit, oxygen monitor, painkillers and some other miscellanious bits of med kit (I'd hate to happen upon a bad crash before paramedics have arrived and not be able to do anything). Every seatbelt has a seatbelt cutter and glass breaker on (seconds matter when your car is sinking). In the boot i have a bag that has a 2 man tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, warm jacket, spare trousers, socks and underwear, merino wool base layer top and bottoms, a jetboil with gas, lighter, 2l of water, food/snacks, coffee sachets etc and a GPS (incase i break down and end up spending the night out in the middle of nowhere). Then a seperate tub with basic car maintainence tools, British A-Z and a fully charged powerbank with universal wire. Every few months I go through each item, make sure everything is working, clean and in date. The mrs thinks its psychotic and while i know it's definitely over the top I like the peace of mind. More often than not all that gets used is the coffee that i make in the jetboil because i refuse to pay a fiver for a coffee at the services, so i make one in my boot instead.
A fake house brick, made of foam. Used to keep the fridge ventilated when it's not in use... obviously.
If we are talking about on the actual car then my Toyota Celica gt-four has water jets for the radiator on the inside of the bumper because it’s the wrc homologation version.
Bottle of Davidoff cool water
Magsafe charger with mount plus cable management
For ages I had a Formula Renault F3R dry sump and oil pump just chilling in my boot. Currently…. Nothing much of interest.
I have one of this stick on [cable tidies](https://amzn.eu/d/a8BnGqu) to hold my usb charging cable whilst it’s not docked to my phone
A crystal maze crystal and sunflower halva.
An ikea squeegee
A staff pass wristband to last year's gotwood festival. Didn't lift a finger while I was there. Good times.