51 Pacemaker, acorns anyone?

Richie
Richie Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
This is funny, took the seats out to start cleaning and found some change(including a 1941dime) and acorns. I'd never seen that many acorns in a car, the back seat was the same way. The poor squirrels lost their home. Anyway, back to the car, I lifted the floor mats up to vacuum and the floors are great with no holes. This is fun !! Richie.

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  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Floors are great, with no holes? That's a blessing. Save the dime. When the car is completed, make a nice glossy 8 x 10 and mount the dime in the frame along with the pic. It'll make a great conversation piece and bring back fond memories for you.



    Keep up the fun, man!!
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    RL Chilton wrote:
    Floors are great, with no holes? That's a blessing. Save the dime. When the car is completed, make a nice glossy 8 x 10 and mount the dime in the frame along with the pic. It'll make a great conversation piece and bring back fond memories for you.



    Keep up the fun, man!!



    Great idea Russell, I might just do that. Richie.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Where did the car come from?

    Just wondering if the squirrels were planning for a long cold winter.

    Rather have squirrels than mice. Guess you are lucky. I bought a car once that the owners kids threw candy from the car in a parade. The kids dropped candy in the car and the mice came in to eat it. Makes for a bad smell.

    I know you are lucky, make it nice. Bob
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Yep, I pulled the seats out of my 29 DB pick up and the only padding was from rats nesting inside the springs. At least they will be simple seats to recover. I usually find walnut shells the rats eat on top of the engine, but thats because we don't have any oaks around here, just walnut trees.



    Harry
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ah nuts! Can't be from Georgia squirrels, they eat pecans. LOL
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    bobdriveshudson wrote:
    Where did the car come from?

    Just wondering if the squirrels were planning for a long cold winter.

    Rather have squirrels than mice. Guess you are lucky. I bought a car once that the owners kids threw candy from the car in a parade. The kids dropped candy in the car and the mice came in to eat it. Makes for a bad smell.

    I know you are lucky, make it nice. Bob



    Hey Bob, I think the squirrels raised many families in that car. The car came from New Jersey where long winters are the norm. I would much rather have squirrels than mice anytime. I hope I'm lucky cause I'm going to need lots of good luck. I will do my best to make it nice. Time will tell !!! Richie.
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    In addition to the mouse condos crated by encasing the seat springs in burlap, one rat had gotten hisself tangled up in the springs and couldn't back out. And there he was...just a skeleton of his former self.
  • SuperDave
    SuperDave Senior Contributor
    If your car was stored with the radiator cap off.. They probably stuffed the tank with the cotten batting from the seat cushions! I had that happen. Radiator looked great but wouldn't flow enough to cool. Removal of the tank netted a bucket full of cotten..
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I love those seat covers!

    Tim
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    I had an 87 Dodge pickup for a while. One day I was headed into town and everytime I stopped, or made a turn, I could hear this rattling somewhere in the engine compartment.



    A few days later I opened the hood for some reason and found the source of the rattle. The underside of the hood was double sheet metal with an open space between the inner and outer panels - there were small holes in the inner piece and the space was full of acorns which were rolling around. I still don't know how the squirrels even got into the space to put the acorns in there. I know I had a hell of a job getting them out.



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr

    Memphis, TN
  • MikeWA
    MikeWA Senior Contributor
    Hanson Motor Co. wrote:
    I love those seat covers!

    Tim



    Still remember a line from Don Rickles, I think it was, at a roast, commenting on someone's loud, checkered sport coat- "Seeing that coat makes me a little sad, because somewhere, there's a '53 DeSoto thats missing its seat covers."
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    Harry Hill wrote:
    Yep, I pulled the seats out of my 29 DB pick up and the only padding was from rats nesting inside the springs. At least they will be simple seats to recover. I usually find walnut shells the rats eat on top of the engine, but thats because we don't have any oaks around here, just walnut trees.



    Harry



    Harry, I read a long time ago that the mice and rat droppings can be dangerous and make you sick if you are not careful when cleaning up. Even when you use a vacuum cleaner you should use a dust mask or respirator. I had no rat or mice droppings in this car,and didn't see squirrel dropping either, matter of fact I don't know what squirrel droppings look like. Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    Dave53-7C wrote:
    Ah nuts! Can't be from Georgia squirrels, they eat pecans. LOL



    Lucky Georgia squirrels Dave53 !!!! Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    Uncle Josh wrote:
    In addition to the mouse condos crated by encasing the seat springs in burlap, one rat had gotten hisself tangled up in the springs and couldn't back out. And there he was...just a skeleton of his former self.



    Uncle Josh, there must have been a time there that had a foul odor, glad I didn't have to deal with that. Getting away with just acorns is a plus !! Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    SuperDave wrote:
    If your car was stored with the radiator cap off.. They probably stuffed the tank with the cotten batting from the seat cushions! I had that happen. Radiator looked great but wouldn't flow enough to cool. Removal of the tank netted a bucket full of cotten..



    Hey SuperDave, fortunately it was stored with the radiator cap on and looked clean inside. It ran cool yesterday for the two hours that I ran it. No leaks or overheating, I feel fortunate now. Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    Hanson Motor Co. wrote:
    I love those seat covers!

    Tim



    Tim, I took the seat covers off yesterday and put them in the trash barrel. I will have all new upholestry put in later on. I do remember way back in the day those types of seat covers were very popular. Actually they bring back good memories. Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    hudsontech wrote:
    I had an 87 Dodge pickup for a while. One day I was headed into town and everytime I stopped, or made a turn, I could hear this rattling somewhere in the engine compartment.



    A few days later I opened the hood for some reason and found the source of the rattle. The underside of the hood was double sheet metal with an open space between the inner and outer panels - there were small holes in the inner piece and the space was full of acorns which were rolling around. I still don't know how the squirrels even got into the space to put the acorns in there. I know I had a hell of a job getting them out.



    Hudsonly,

    Alex Burr

    Memphis, TN



    Alex, it's amazing how they find all those little places to hide, and store food. When I took the headliner out of the 49 SS I had, there were mouse droppings up there and no visible holes in the headliner. They must have crawled up inside the pillar posts. Richie.
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    Mike (WA) wrote:
    Still remember a line from Don Rickles, I think it was, at a roast, commenting on someone's loud, checkered sport coat- "Seeing that coat makes me a little sad, because somewhere, there's a '53 DeSoto thats missing its seat covers."



    That's funny Mike, Don Rickles was pretty funny. He made a living picking on people and making fun of them. I liked him and enjoyed his kind of humor. Richie.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Richie wrote:
    Harry, I read a long time ago that the mice and rat droppings can be dangerous and make you sick if you are not careful when cleaning up. Even when you use a vacuum cleaner you should use a dust mask or respirator. I had no rat or mice droppings in this car,and didn't see squirrel dropping either, matter of fact I don't know what squirrel droppings look like. Richie.



    Richie, actually it's the protein in the urine, when it dries the powder can cause allergies and carry some pretty nasty virus's, Hantavirus for one but even without the bad virus infections many people get pneumonia from breathing the dust. I did once when I camped out in a old homestead shack, I slept outside on a cot I had retrieved from the shack and there must have been urine dust on the cot. A week later I was in intensive care in really bad shape. I don't sweep or vacuum mouse and rat droppings without a mask now, if I can I wash everything down before I pick up the heavy droppings. Just breathing the dust will give you flu like symptoms from the allergic reaction your body has. Be careful around any rodent droppings



    Harry
  • rambos_ride
    rambos_ride Senior Contributor
    Harry Hill wrote:
    Richie, actually it's the protein in the urine, when it dries the powder can cause allergies and carry some pretty nasty virus's, Hantavirus for one but even without the bad virus infections many people get pneumonia from breathing the dust. I did once when I camped out in a old homestead shack, I slept outside on a cot I had retrieved from the shack and there must have been urine dust on the cot. A week later I was in intensive care in really bad shape. I don't sweep or vacuum mouse and rat droppings without a mask now, if I can I wash everything down before I pick up the heavy droppings. Just breathing the dust will give you flu like symptoms from the allergic reaction your body has. Be careful around any rodent droppings

    Harry

    When I started reading this thread - a dust mask warning was coming, now I don't need to - good job Harry!
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    I wasn't sure what caused people to get sick Harry, I just knew it was bad. Thanks for the information, I have always used a mask when cleaning or vacuuming that kind of stuff. I do try to be careful around that stuff. Thanks again for the warning, it may have helped someone else on here from getting sick. Richie.
  • RL Chilton
    RL Chilton Administrator, Member
    Richie wrote:
    and didn't see squirrel dropping either, matter of fact I don't know what squirrel droppings look like. Richie.





    Richie-



    What's the matter with you? It looks like chewed up acorns.;)
  • Richie
    Richie Senior Contributor
    RL Chilton wrote:
    Richie-



    What's the matter with you? It looks like chewed up acorns.;)



    I knew someone would show me the light, thanks Russell. I'll make a note so I won't forget. Richie.
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