Pratical Jokes and Cars

What are some of the best (or stupidest) things you've done to buddies' cars for laughs?

I'll start with my 2 personal favorites:

Put flour or Talcum powder down the vents and turn the blower up to high (with the car off) so when your buddy starts it up it blows all over the inside of the car.

This one is my favorite of all time: while stopped at a light (while you are the passenger) in one fluid motion put the car in park (if it's an auto), turn off the ignition, pull out the keys and toss into the back seat (or if you're really mean, out an open window.)

worst was a friend as his Firebird, He went to a party and we knew he was going to get E36 M3faced and try and drive home... so we painted some cinderblocks black and jacked up the rear of the car and slid them under the axles so the rear wheels JUST cleared the ground. We then wrapped his car in that plastic stretchy pallet wrap from bumper to bumper.

As those 70s fire/camaros were easy to break into.. we also wrapped his seats up and placed a lubricated condom over the shift knob.

Put silver anti sieze all over someones keys...cant really be seen, so its hard to tell why you have all this silver crap on your hands or where it came from...also works on wrenches in the garage.

Also, My buddy worked in a pizza place in a strip mall when we were in High School. He would always give me and a mutual friend a hard time for being cincinnati bengals fans (heh ive since gotten a tougher skin about it). One day he took it a bit far, so we decided to push his wrangler up onto the sidewalk and block the swing out front door so you couldnt get out of the pizza place from the front, you had to walk all the way around the 200 yard long strip from the back door. By the time he made it around front, we were long gone

then, theres the ever famous turn the volume knob all the way up so when the driver starts the car the next time, they get a buttload of talk radio to the cranium at volume 84...course it only works if you have old school analog radio buttons, or access to your friends 02 golf keys when hes drunk...or whatever

you reminded me of something we did to an annoying bitchy manager at a place we worked at. She had a bright red VW rabbit cabriolet... friend of mine (who is now a professor) was a chem major at school and got his hands on some silver nitrate (the stuff they make mirrors from) and we coated her black door handles with it. For those that do not know.. Silver nitrate will dye your skin black.. she walked around with black marks on her hands for weeks

Had a teacher that drove a Rabbit when I was in middle school. Five of us turned her car sideways between two trees. Took her about 10 minutes to jockey it out. We thought it was hilarious. The teacher and principal, not so much.

Used to work with a guy who was a chronic practical joker, and I tried to give as good as I got. He drove a little Audi Fox, and one day I took some axle grease and applied it carefully to the back of his steering wheel. When we left work that day, I pulled up next to him, and waited for him to get in his car. Naturally, he grabbed the switch key and steering wheel about the same time, then pulled his left hand back, covered with slimy grease. I smiled, threw a red mechanic's rag into his window, and said, "See ya tomorrow!" He loved it.

Another time we went out and ran an 18 guage wire from his coil, into the door past the rocker panel, under the floormat, then up to the back of the seat. Stripped a couple inches of insulation, and frayed it out so he'd sit right on it (if he didn't notice it). This is a classic trick from the old days. When you grab the ignition key, and turn it to the start position, you get a 30,000 volt kick in the caboose!

Good times.

We used to vaseline a couple of windows way back when, put a few heavy duty zip ties around the drive shaft and put grease underneath the door handles.

• All done in fun, mind you.

I've always wondered- Does the banana up the tailpipe thing actually work? I've recently read about expanding foam, but it takes too long to set. Tennis ball for a fart can?

I was reading a book about Chicago cops. Once they were on a Mafia stake out. Board as hell, one cop slips down to the Dago's Caddy and smooshes some dog crap up under the door handle. The mafioso comes out to get into his car and they see him shaking his hand and cussing going back inside the restaurant to clean up.

So what do they do? While he's inside, they smear poop on the wheel. After spending a half an hour cleaning the handle, he gets in and grabs a fist full of crap...again.

just a little bit of organic (synthetic doesnt have as powerful an effect) hub grease on the muffler really makes the interior of a car smell very bad once it heats up...

just in case anyone needs to know

Dead fish on top of the muffler.

The gift that keep son giving, and giving, and...

As a chronic joker I had a bit of a reputation. Once informed 2 guys who disliked each other that I had placed a whistling smoke bomb in the other guys car. Truth was I did nothing, but these 2 guys waited about 45 minutes to see the other guy leave first.

Watermelon rind under the drive wheels is always fun.

Tied shopping carts (trash cans, branches etc) to their car with fishing line.

Rubber snake in the steering wheel, wire the horn to the brake lights....

Bruce

I am reminded of the Top Gear Miami to New Orleans and Botswana challenges.

Don't forget the cheese on the Alfa Challenge or the 17-year old first car challenge from the latest season.

I just remembered another goodie:

My friends and I were on a cross-country road trip after we graduated High School. We had 2 cars. One night we stopped at our buddy's Grandma's house in Colorado. Well, she had a whole bunch of cotton-tail rabbits just hopping around her house (she lived out of town a bit), so while he was inside chatting with his G-ma we caught a whole bunch of these bunnies (about 6-10) and put them in his car and shut the doors. It didn't hurt them at all (the weather was cool), but they did leave their mark in the car...

Most of these are too destructive to be truly funny to me, but to each their own.

egnorant wrote: ... wire the horn to the brake lights....

I've always thought that one was good. We were just talking at work about wiring a Hobbs switch in to the horn so that it honks when you go into boost...

4cylndrfury wrote: then, theres the ever famous turn the volume knob all the way up so when the driver starts the car the next time, they get a buttload of talk radio to the cranium at volume 84...course it only works if you have old school analog radio buttons, or access to your friends 02 golf keys when hes drunk...or whatever

What's a radio?

confuZion3 wrote:

4cylndrfury wrote: then, theres the ever famous turn the volume knob all the way up so when the driver starts the car the next time, they get a buttload of talk radio to the cranium at volume 84...course it only works if you have old school analog radio buttons, or access to your friends 02 golf keys when hes drunk...or whatever

What's a radio?

It's an electrical device that plays recorded sounds and music, but that's not important right now.

A guy at a college I went to had an early 80's Trans Am that he thought was fast. He was in my auto class and I always liked to play pranks on poeple. I stuffed a bunch of newspaper and rags in his air cleaner so it would choke off the carb above idle and also dumped some WD40 down his muffler, lol. He took off after class into town and called back saying his car blew up, says it had no power and when he stopped a big cloud of smoke came by his window. He made it back to the shop and found all the crap in his air cleaner, he was pissed but he never found out who did it. Also did some other stuff to many other peiople's cars like a bunch of wheel weights on the inside of a rim so it would vibrate like heck at any speed above 10 mph. Pour oil down the carb so it smokes a lot when first started. One thing I did to a couple of my cars was to rig up a smoke screen apapratus. I would get a washer bottle/washer pump combo and run the outlet hose to the air cleaner right above the carb opening or TBI opening so the ATF would shoot straight into the intake. All i had to do is use the connector for the washer button to run it so I would have smoke on demand. It would be so thick it would go to zero visibility and it stunk horribly, lol. Worked good for tailgators and for friends who got stuck behind me. Best time was when i backed up to a open door at a Dominoe's pizza and smoked the store out, the workers werent out front so I backed up as close as I could legally and had the whols store fogged out. Found out later that they were in the back room and saw the smoke rolling to the back room and thought it was a fire in the ovens, they sprayed the ovens down with the extinguishers and had to get new controls since the stuff they sprayed didnt like it. They never did know where the smoke came from, lol.

In reply to EvanB: "It's an electrical device that plays recorded sounds and music, but that's not important right now."

Surely you can't be serious.

My favourite pranks isn't one I did, it's one I heard here.

Someone worked at a SAAB garage and they push started a good customer's 2-stroke 96 in reverse so the car had 4 reverse gears and one forward. The customer came to pick up the car so the tech pulled it around front (driving forward in "reverse"), left it idling in neutral. The customer gets in puts it in "first" and speeds off, backwards! Hahaha. No harm no foul, turning the car off and restarting it has the engine turning the correct direction.

mapper wrote: In reply to EvanB: "It's an electrical device that plays recorded sounds and music, but that's not important right now." Surely you can't be serious.

I couldn't be more serious, and stop calling me Shirley!

E36 M3. Another thread hijacked by Airplane! quotes.

EvanB wrote:

mapper wrote: In reply to EvanB: "It's an electrical device that plays recorded sounds and music, but that's not important right now." Surely you can't be serious.

I couldn't be more serious, and stop calling me Shirley!

I just want to tell you both, 'good luck'. We're all counting on you.

When I was in shop class in high school I charged up an ignition capacitor and handed it to the class asshat. about 10 of us standing around saw and heard the arc going into his hand. What I didnt know was the schools assistant principal was standing behind me. Mr. Dye shook his head while unsucessfully holding back a laugh and walked away. Never heard a word about it from him, the class asshat dropped the class and never came back.

When I worked for Mercedes we used the clear plastic seat covers on the cars. You cant see water in them, but you sure do feel it when you sit in it on a cold or hot day.