Some of us older guys from the 50s and 60s used to be so poor, or had nothing better to do with our time,we would sit around just thinking up practical jokes to pull on our buddies........our cars meant everything back then, so a joke involving the buddies car counted for even more....i'll relate one of my favorites...then , put on your thinking caps and jump right in....remember,it doesn't matter how stupid or insane it sounds now, just remember rolling around on the ground laughing...............ah, i can hear those memories cranking up now:yes:



Scotch tape about 10 BBs inside a hubcap....after a little while tape comes unstuck, BBs sound a wheel bearing going bad....oh, and another one, a box of live crickets placed under the passenger seat....ask my brother Pnugene about this one on his wedding day:thumbsup:

I don't remember the 50's or 60's! :D

A good one we use on the new guys at work is take a long tie strap and strap it around the driveshaft so it'll whack the floor of the car as they drive. :D

Not from the 50's or 60's but a thin black wire from the coil through the passenger door and sticking up from between the drivers seat. Won't know what hit them when they go to crank it.

Not from the 50's or 60's but a thin black wire from the coil through the passenger door and sticking up from between the drivers seat. Won't know what hit them when they go to crank it.

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We once wire a buddies horn to the start wire on his ign. switch. Every time he tried to crank it over, The horn would blow. He spent about an hr trying to figure out the problem until he caught us laughing..


Got a shop teacher by wiring his horn to his turn signal light..

Tape a can from sardines under a chair where that special person sits. The flies will drive hime batty until the can is discovered.

Pour cheap perfume in an air hose and plug it back in. Every time an air tool is used it will provide another strong aroma.

If there is a drill press, put a twist in the v-belt so that the chuck spins backward. See if anyone notices how slow the drilling jobs go.

These are ones that I have personally done or witnessed. These are not car related but they will do the job.

One that is car related : Pour dirty oil under the place where the pal parks his car or bike. Let him look for the oil leaks for a while.

Me and a couple of my buddies were the "go to" guys in our group for the less "mechanically inclined" guys we hung with. My buddy had a friend call the parts store looking for "foo foo valves" and "ra ra rods" for his Ranger. l:)

It took a little convincing that those were actual parts but we were the "experts" so he couldn't argue. :)

Similar to sending the new guy for the left handed jury wrench :D

I have witnessed the end all car practical joke! Several years ago (over 20) I worked as a service advisor at a local Chevy dealership. We had a guy who had bought a new Chevette and he worked third shift at a local factory. He came in a couple times complaining that the car made a very loud whistle sound but only when he drove it on his dinner break during third shift. It never made a sound any other time. We had our guys look it over a couple times but since they could never get it to make a whistling sound they were not able to find anything. Well one morning we just open the door and we hear this car coming down the road and it is whistling like you would not believe. It was a block away and we could hear it coming. The guy flies in our door and skids to a stop. Up close it was nearly deafening. He jumps out of the car and starts screaming at the service manager calling him every name you could think of. Saying things like think you can find it now you stupid son of a ******! While he is screaming the service manager walks around to the tail pipe and pulls out a referees whistle that had a wire clip holding it in the pipe. Imediately the noise stops and he hands it to the guy. The guy looks at it and the service manager says " Looks like someone forgot to take it out of your pipe when you got back from dinner last night." The guy turned 20 shades of red! He was so mad he didn't know what to do. Of course he was applogizing all over himslef. Before he left he assured us that "Someone is going to pay!" I still laugh when I think of this one.

Some old guys my brother works with told about some guy they worked with many years ago that got a VW beetle, and was bragging about his gas mileage. He didn't know the guys were adding gas to his car while it sat in the lot.... then one day they just quit, and the guy spent lot of money rebuilding everything to try getting his 80mpg back. l:)

removed the coil wire and replace it with vacuum line and 2 coil wire boots

jacked a car up in the school parking lot and put 4 concrete blocks per wheel under them (flat on top of each other) and left one spare so the guy would have to raise each corner of the car with a jack (sitting on the spare block) 3 times

the common "turn the radio full blast / wipers on / turn signal on"

sent a buddy (walking 4 blocks each way) to the hardware store for a right handed metric cresent wrench.... funny thing is, the guy at the hardware played along and said all he had was left handed metric cresent so the guy comes back and we tell him, "yeah, that'll work" so he goes back to find out the store "just sold the last one, but ask if an American (SAE) would work" because he had plenty of left or right hand available so back he comes so see if the standard would work l:)

move all plug wires on the distributor cap one over

vaseline on the door handle, steering wheel, ignition switch, radio knobs and shifter

Not a car one but I actualy put the white poker chip in the Oreo cookie and watched a guy dunk it in his coffee 3 times to try and bite it......we screamed and boy was he pissed.

I have witnessed the end all car practical joke! Several years ago (over 20) I worked as a service advisor at a local Chevy dealership. We had a guy who had bought a new Chevette and he worked third shift at a local factory. He came in a couple times complaining that the car made a very loud whistle sound but only when he drove it on his dinner break during third shift. It never made a sound any other time. We had our guys look it over a couple times but since they could never get it to make a whistling sound they were not able to find anything. Well one morning we just open the door and we hear this car coming down the road and it is whistling like you would not believe. It was a block away and we could hear it coming. The guy flies in our door and skids to a stop. Up close it was nearly deafening. He jumps out of the car and starts screaming at the service manager calling him every name you could think of. Saying things like think you can find it now you stupid son of a ******! While he is screaming the service manager walks around to the tail pipe and pulls out a referees whistle that had a wire clip holding it in the pipe. Imediately the noise stops and he hands it to the guy. The guy looks at it and the service manager says " Looks like someone forgot to take it out of your pipe when you got back from dinner last night." The guy turned 20 shades of red! He was so mad he didn't know what to do. Of course he was applogizing all over himslef. Before he left he assured us that "Someone is going to pay!" I still laugh when I think of this one.

there are people these days that pay money to make their exhaust whistle like that.

My brother got married, I was his best man, which meant I had to drive him around afterwards. Well I had picked up a smoke bomb that tied into the ignition, wired it up and dang thing didn't work. This was one of the first Subarus around at the time, and the clutch was like a rubber band compared to the one in my 67 Barracuda I drove at the time so I had juuust a little problem letting it out too quickly and we did a few wild starts. Well they had to stop at sister-in-laws grandmas so while they went in I fixed the smoke bomb. When they came back out I started the car and poof the bomb went off perfectly. After the way I had driven my brother was sure I had blown up his new car's engine! After I told him what we had done I was not allowed to drive it again that day l:) If the smoke bomb had worked the first time it wouldn't have been nearly as funny as it turned out.

A lot of the older guys here remember the shocking experiences with Model T coils hooked up to cars!
Well an older gentleman that came around the speed shop talked about his big brother having one on his Model A roadster that was wired to the seat springs that were only covered by a horse blanket. (no key so was an anti theft device)
He didn't know about his brothers anti theft device when his brother asked him to start the car one day. Well being well grounded by the starter push button when contact was made he got quite a jolt! While his brother laughed his butt off at him!

He was still pissed the next morning when he got an idea! His brother had been out drinking and was still sound asleep. Being he was 6'7" his feet stuck out from under the blanket and hung off the end of the bed.
He cut thecord off the table lamp and stripped the wire ends. He then proceded to wrap the wires one around each big toe!
Then he plugged it in and pulled it out real quick!!!! He said he never ever in his whole life saw a person stand up without sitting up first, but his brother did! Then chased him a mile and a half from the farm house before he had to stop!
Said his dad told his brother "that's what you get for teaching your brother how to ply with electricity!":D

Back in the early 70's I had one of those Honda 600's. It was a 600cc motorcyle engine mounted in a Japanese beer can with 4 wheels basically. It got 38-40 mpg and on average cost me $1.87 to fill er up when empty, which it was allot of times. Good thing it was light because I had to push it many times. It seems like every week I would be out on a date and some of my friends would find my car, pick it up, balance it on a log or turn it sideways between 2 cars with only an inch between the front and rear bumpers. At 2 in the morning it didn't seem so funny, but for some reason it does now. I remember the girl I was dating back then was really hot, so that makes the memory that much better!

Jr High school we took the Band Teaches VW Bug and rolled it between the band room (add on to the school) and main building. At the end it L'd off to the right into an alcove that was about a foot wider than the Bug was long.
We got as many guys on the bumpers as we could and walked it sideways into the alcove almost up aganst the back wall.
The band teachers office window faced the alcove so at some point during the day he saw it back there.
It took him about a half hour but he actually managed to drive it out!:D
We all got busted though. The pricipal announced over the PA the next day that the Police had finger prints off the bumper and they were going to be checking all the students. One dummy believed them and turned us all in!:mad:
Those were good times though!:yes: