ok...the worse is a burnt rearend gear lube........next to that is 50W race oil with a spun bearing.... Lets keep it to car smells...most here have kids...no compairison
car smells...? after drunks or dogs been in them...? and I mean "been"... I`ve had both 'cases'... friend had a cat pee in his vert....never goes away! esp. in humid climate...
Drunken vomit on your couch, carpet, coffee table, chair, bathroom. 2004 4th of July party. My best friend had a bit too much that night. BTW, pour vinegar all over the tainted area and suck it up with a shop vac. Then follow up with a steam cleaning and cat spray cleaners. Diffuses the enzymes that make the stink. I think Im gonna hurl just thinking about it.
i hit a Racoon one time in my 68 Javalin....it ended up inbetween the headers and the block for about a day before i notice it wasnt suppose to be there......wasnt BBQ if ya know what i mean
Daughter's boyfriend had a cat died and got stuck in between the bottom of the radiator and the sheetmetal for about a week. Dead decomposing animal flesh. Not much worse.
I'm so glad I didn't read this thread before dinner.
I passed a cattle hauler on I80 coming from a customer meeting in Iowa. (Not my Firebird.) Seems that the side got hit by a heavy shot of cow urine. Didn't know it until I pulled into the garage that night. It took a lot of washing before that smell was gone.
in `72 I went crabbing by the NASA compound often , bought chicken necks for bait.....
one week in the summer I started smelling something in my car ,tuesday I think...wed ,thursday got worse.. friday I go open the trunk....it BLOWS open , from the stink....
looking around I eventually find a mostly decomposed chicken neck behind the spare....they dont last long in 95-100F weather... YUK!
I bought a 69 Camaro locally from an older guy. Really original. Like a time capsule. It had quite a story with it. The story goes; Back in 1977, the guy bought the car for his son. The son took out the girlfriend of a not so nice kid. The mean kid and his buddies vandalized the car. There were key scratches on every panel. I noticed a terrible odor when I first approached the car. I mean you could smell it across the yard. It's turns out that the pack of meanies peed all over inside the car. There was a good 1/8 inch of green mold growing on everything in the interior. This car sat in the old guys small garage for over twenty five years after the vandalism. I couldn't even keep the car in my pole barn it smelled so bad. It actually stunk up my cars that were inside the barn even when it was parked outside! I heard, "What's that smell?" from everyone who visited until the things was sold, which was pretty darn quick! The best part was watching the eBay Camaro hounds fight over it.
Bjorn brings back a memory: Working as a machine repairman at GM we all push these huge tool boxes around everyday. My cousin Dean got this idea of how to 'payback' the brown noser repairmen. He would take a medium sized fish and hide it somewhere in the guys tool box. Can you imagine the odor after a week or two in the hot factory?
Quite a few years back (Mid summer) I picked up some shrimp and crab legs Friday for Saturday dinner. Saturday morning my boss called me at home and had a machine installation in another state not going well, needed me to go fix it for the customer. Should be a one day job and be back Sunday afternoon. Got there and it was total chaos. Turned out the field crew there walked off the job, not done much and the customer needed to be in production ASAP. I ended up there for two weeks. I forgot about the seafood at home so nobody went by, I had turned the AC off as well. When I got home I saw 4 cats on my front porch, not a good sign. I could smell it outside the house, opened the front door and nearly threw up. Gagged my way to the kitchen, opened the fridge door and lost the cookies. My fridge had picked that week to quite working. Must have been over 90 degrees in the house. I had to air out the house for weeks, and pull up the carpet and throw away the drapes. The fridge got tossed, towels, linens and such got washed. It was sickening.
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Wanting a Custom fit in an off the rack world.
I don't have time for a job, I just need the money.
OH MAN! That reminds me. We had a turkey in our garage refridgerator. I mistakenly turned off the breaker to it. Did you ever see the plastic wrapper on a turkey blow up to the size to fill a whole freezer???? I opened the door and all I see is turkey bag. I slammed the door and turned on the fridge. I figured I better do this because trash day was a few days off. On trash day I put the frozen wonder out by the road. I noticed the mailman holding his hand over his face when he delivered that day!
HO`s story reminds me....not a car smell though...so a "slight" hi jack...
this couple divorced, wife was a real A$$ and wanted EVERYTHING...drapes and all, she would not let the ex buy her out...so she could move back in with her new hubby.... the ex hubby , got some shrimp, hid in the drapery rods ,which were holow ,with those spear ends....
eventually house started smelling ,got worse and worse, she eventually sold it back to the ex ,( and cheap at this point...fast...lol),who immidiately got rid of the drapes ,rods and all...
Worst smell I've had in a car wasn't from the car but from riding behind a Dump truck for several miles unable to pass. Finally got around it and saw why it stunk. It was very hot summer time when the chicken growers had thousands dying everyday. The dump truck was full to the top of dead chickens.
Wanting a Custom fit in an off the rack world.
I don't have time for a job, I just need the money.
That dump truck story brings back bad memories from summer. It wasn't dead chickens in the dump truck but crab shells from the local crab pickers. I was stuck behind the truck for a while, couldnt pass had to pull over and hurl on the side of the road. Have not been in the mood for crabs sence.
69 firebird 350 ho 4spd someday I'll get this thing on the road again
Nothing like the smell of a freshly killed skunk in a trap. Try to hold your food down.
I have to agree, skunk is one powerful odor. Two years back, one of the package cars (UPS delivery truck) came into the building reeking of skunk. The driver swore he didn’t hit one. But it was bad, I mean gagging bad. One of the car wash people took it out to the wash bay and found part of dead skunk stuck between the rear dual wheels.
Another was fresh lobster. Now wait, there’s a story. A customer had to have five boxes of fresh lobster delivered NDAS (Next Day Air Saturday). The receiver was not there to accept the shipment so the items came back to the building. Still no contact from the receiver.
Unfortunately the driver didn’t take the packages off the truck. So they sat for two days outside in the August heat inside a UPS (oven) package car. Monday when the vehicle had to be moved, the driver brought it in the building. Once the cargo door was open an unholy smell lofted out. It made everyone in a ten foot radius gag and almost vomit. They had to call the Haz Mat folks to remove the spoiled goods. The cargo area in the truck had to be washed out.
And if you have you car sit for a long enough time, mice or rodents will make it their home. And then they die in their happy home, and your left with the smell and finding the nest.
Dead animals has to be the worst of smells in a car!
I think that Tom hits it as the top, winning smell. Hadn't dealt with human barbeque, but worked on a car that was a crime scene of a extremly bloody murder. Forget puking! The smell will kill you. It must be pyschological; dead rotton is dead rotton, but it's a totally different case when the dead rotton was from a human.
I'm so glad I didn't read this thread before dinner.
I passed a cattle hauler on I80 coming from a customer meeting in Iowa. (Not my Firebird.) Seems that the side got hit by a heavy shot of cow urine. Didn't know it until I pulled into the garage that night. It took a lot of washing before that smell was gone.
I think that Tom hits it as the top, winning smell. Hadn't dealt with human barbeque, but worked on a car that was a crime scene of a extremly bloody murder. Forget puking! The smell will kill you. It must be pyschological; dead rotton is dead rotton, but it's a totally different case when the dead rotton was from a human.
not dealt with that either, closest to that ...what I did was to walk in to what used to be a barn , day after 30 dairy cows burned inside...pretty bad sight and smell, poor things, still tied up to their necks with chains in their stalls
Returning from South Florida in a state truck after a hard rain. It was dark and we were passed by a Semi who hit a large mud puddle (we thought) and covered the truck. Hit the wipers to clear the mud...only the mud was rather greasy. We pull over at a gas station and found the mud was actually the remnants of a bloated deer carcas which was now covering the front of the truck. Goo and stench was everywhere..even down inside the cowl vent. I think I even hurled The smell eventually went away...unlike cat pee which really is permanent
i have to agree with Borjn back in the early seventies our barn burnt, dad got the cows out but the bull and some pigs got toasted.burning flesh stinks.still remember seeing a firefighter running after a half roasted pig to put it out of his misery. another smell on the farm is a fresh cow that didn't clean after calving,boy can that afterbirth stink after it rotted inside the mother for 1-2 weeks. sorry to gross anyone out , i have worse stories,you see everthing on a farm.
Great. LOL It'll be a lot bigger when it heads back your way. I wonder where they draw the line and start charging toxic material surcharge? Imagine it oozing all over the mail.... Get that mail off the dinner table!!
Decomposing anything is the worst. Skunk(i know 1st hand) isnt so bad after finding a decomposing body for a few days in 90*. Had the pleasure years ago on a fire/medic call to a house. Siblings had been unable to reach thier mother on the phone. Luckly the funeral home removes the body after the coroner is finished.
and I mean "been"...
