[dave in australia]

Not in a model A, but in an old valiant ute I picked up and was dissmantling for spares for my other ute, I was getting a few parts from the engine bay. Out of the corner of my eye was some movement in the windscreen plenum, there was a rust hole between the plenum and the engine bay, common for valiants. I looked closer, and being a foolhardy Aussie, poked it the strange looking thing with my finger. It suddenly moved, and so did I in the opposite direction. I poked a snake that had coiled up in the heater box/plenum area. I told my neighbor who then got in the car with the snake and pulled it out of its 'house'. It was a five foot python and very angry about being disturbed. It got released into the local bush area, the only find I've never kept.