When I was 5, my Mum and Dad bought a brand spanking new Citroen GS.
Very shortly after we bought it, we drove from London to Aberdeen in it, for a 2 week holiday with relatives. This is a journey of about 12 hours.

Two of my Mothers cousins were fishermen, and ran a trawler. At the end of the holiday, they gave us a big case of fish, in ice.

This went in the boot of the brand new car. For 12 hours.

By the time we got to London, the car had started to smell. By a week later, the fishy water that had slopped all over the boot had reached a crescendo of stink.

The boot carpet was removed and replaced, but for the whole time they kept the car, maybe 4 years, as soon as the temperature got above about 10 degrees, the faint waft of fish would appear in the car.

I imagine when they sold it, they chose a cold day.
(username failed moderation, Wed 22 Jan 2014, 17:37, 3 replies)

The opposite is the case in my brothers car.
He picked up a load of freshly cut pine logs from a friend, and ended up leaving them in his boot for a couple of weeks over the summer. Repeated day cycles of heavy summer sunshine worked their magic, causing the resins in the wood to leak out and permeate all the upholstery in the vehicle.

Now, many months later, his car is still astonishingly fresh.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 22 Jan 2014, 19:08, closed)

We used to wonder about the smell in my brother's car.
He claimed it was due to a pizza that he once transported across London, but later confessed that he'd been sick in the foot well whilst driving under the influence (of a hangover).
Never anything mechanically wrong with that car, but no one liked riding in it.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 22 Jan 2014, 19:34, closed)

Not sure which is worse.
Maybe someone puking fish would trump both of them.
(username failed moderation, Thu 23 Jan 2014, 9:00, closed)