I found this Spring that the bag of grass seeds in the garage was
opened and when I opened the trunk of my B for the 1st time this spring,
there was a cute not-so-little pile of seeds and a lot of tiny little
black ones that were not quite seeds. At least they were the "after
seeds." The tiny trunk hole for drainage apparently wasn't tiny enough.
Bill
On Fri, 20 Apr
2001, Eddie Sheffield wrote:
> Well, I've found a number of acorns in the heater of my Midget since I
> bought it last September. Glad I didn't find any in the engine, though!
>
> When I bought my '91 Dodge Dakota new, I had it less than a week and I found
> hickory nuts on the intake manifold. And I had been driving it - little
> buggers moved in quick!
>
> And a Dodge Omni I had that I was also driving heavily got mice in the glove
> box - ate about half of my registration. Kept wondering what a cop would
> think if I got pulled over. :-)
>
> A car doesn't need to be parked long to get infested!
>
> Eddie
> 1971 Midget
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tab Julius" <tab@penworks.com>
> To: "S & M Barnes" <barnesms@swbell.net>
> Cc: "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: So what have you found in yours?
>
>
> > I found acorns and such in the air filter of my Toyota.... #)($#*
> > squirrels.... ! :)
> >
> > 'Course it's better than the black widow spider infestation that lady on
> > Car Talk reported!
> >
> >
> > At 04:52 PM 4/20/01 -0500, S & M Barnes wrote:
> > >In my case, acorns in the engine!
> > >
> > >While cleaning and checking the engine and radiator I found an acorn
> under the
> > >thermostat and I have just flushed two more out of the radiator!
> > >
> > >Insects, spiders and rust I expect to find on and in MGs but acorns?????
> > >
> > >I guess at sometime a PO left part of the cooling system open for long
> enough
> > >for a squirrel to find it and hide some winter food in it.
> > >
> > >Sorry for the waste of bandwidth but I couldn't resist sharing this!
> > >
> > >MikeB
> > >
> > >May-B, the 1965 MGB under rapid reconstruction.
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