The time capsule glove box

[70/6chall]

As I sat in the Dodge this morning wiping the dash and various plastic panels down with cleaner and protectant. I was sitting on the passenger side without the steering wheel in my way, I was able to view the dash a little better than from the drivers seat, where I usually am. I guess I homed in on the glove box and thought maybe I should clean it out since I don't go into it that often. So I unlocked it and started hauling stuff out. Well, I found things that you would find in a glove box (forty years ago).the owners manual in the vynil holder with the warranty card various, Chrysler advertisements, road maps, cal. State highway, riverside, San Bernardino,and LA county maps Riverside city all copyright 1970, 3 or 4 Buss fuse boxes, 1970's touch-up paint from the dealership in an aluminum container EK2 go-mango, and a plastic touch-up bottle of header orange the paint equivalency to the old go-mango. And a plastic fuse removal tool (a pep boys purchase). Well I wiped it out (got the spider webs out of the corners). And thought what a time capsule from a time long ago. Put everything back, locked it up and wondered how long will it be until I go back into it again.    Thanks again,   Al

[Cuda Cody]

It's neat when I get a new project and I find stuff in the glove box or console.  Always cool to see all those little things.  And sometime you get lucky and find a build sheet behind the glove box too!   

[70/6chall]

Cody, yep your right always a find when its something you forgot about. No build sheet though, when I changed out the dash pad and had everything apart absolutely no build sheet. I believe it was a victim of LA's anti-trash policy. In fact nowhere in the interior. Oh, well.    Thanks,   Al

[bentpshrods]

    The 3-4 packs of Buss fuses made me laugh.   After I got mine running from sitting for 22 years, all the wiring from the cowl forward was so brittle and broken that i would usually get a short some where and blow a fuse. Still drove it tho.  Just kept the glove box full of fuses---Full and empty.        A wonder I did not just catch on fire.     

[70/6chall]

I know how that is every once in awhile, and I have no idea why, I'd blow a 3amp fuse to the dash floodlights. Someone told me one time when I told them about blowing fuses they said "you should wad up a little piece of tin foil and put it in the fuse panel", yeh right, (wink wink). No wonder I never saw that person again.     Thanks,   Al

[usraptor]

Other than the original owners manual, there were no hidden treasures in my glove box.  However, when I took the seat belts out and unwound them to clean them, I found a 1973 quarter wound up in the bottom of the belt.  I kept the quarter and will put it in the glove box when I get the car all back together.

[ec_co]

I found almost every registration from when my dad bought it in '73 until he parked it in '87, only 1 missing. he also had the original bill of sale docs in there and a wedding planner from when he married my mom at a Sons of Norway hall