Harmless Automotive Themed Pranks we have Played on Friends

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Since the last couple day's conversations surfaced with harmless automotive theme pranks, here's a place to tell us about them instead of cluttering other threads. I will start with one of my favorites.

At our local bar in rural NS, I would climb under different friends cars at various times and tie a piece of flexible wire tightly around their drive shaft. On the other end of the wire at a distance just long enough to hit the floorboards, I would twist a nut (1/2 inch or so) onto the wire.

When the bar closed and everyone jumped in their cars to leave, as soon as the started to drive away, they rhythmic slapping of the nut on the floor sounded just like you just threw a rod or trashed a tranny or rear end.... lol...
I was a helpful guy and would always stop and help them figure out what was wrong when they were pulled over with the hood up...
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When I was a kid I worked on the dock at the post office loading trailers. One our supervisors was a jerk. He drove a small car, like maybe a bug, I can't remember.
Anyway when he'd go in to work four of us would go around to the side of the building where he parked and we'd lift his car up and turn it sideways between 2 cars. When he went to leave for lunch he'd be stuck and have to go find the owners of the other cars so he could get his car out.

:rofl:
 
Murray20c8 said:
When I was a kid I worked on the dock at the post office loading trailers. One our supervisors was a jerk. He drove a small car, like maybe a bug, I can't remember.
Anyway when he'd go in to work four of us would go around to the side of the building where he parked and we'd lift his car up and turn it sideways between 2 cars. When he went to leave for lunch he'd be stuck and have to go find the owners of the other cars so he could get his car out.

:rofl:
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Hahahaha.... We did that in university. A classmate with an extremely swelled head and loads of money drove a sweet MGB Roadster... A bunch of us lifted it up and placed it between two trees....
 
Rruuff Day said:
Hahahaha.... We did that in university. A classmate with an extremely swelled head and loads of money drove a sweet MGB Roadster... A bunch of us lifted it up and placed it between two trees....
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Meanwhile in Manitoba. Don’t think they were the first but still pretty cool.
I have seen other examples.
news.umanitoba.ca

How’d they do that?

For memorable campus moments, this one’s up there.
news.umanitoba.ca news.umanitoba.ca
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Here's another that we did and never had a catastrophe but quit doing it as we finally realized it was likely someday not going to go well...
If you remember the old Johnson paste wax cans...

We would cut a hole in the lid and braise a sparkplug into it. Then put the lid back on the empty can and lift the edge up slightly. Take the acetylene torch and using acetylene gas only (very important as we found out during a test run not to mix in the oxygen), put gas into the can and quickly tap the lid back into place. Take it with us to the bar, open a buddies hood, pull off a spark plug wire and put it on our spark plug can and wait until they came out and jumped in and started it... The BANG always got a rise out of them....

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Somedays I wonder how I am still alive..... :bathitshead:
 
Rruuff Day said:
Here's another that we did and never had a catastrophe but quit doing it as we finally realized it was likely someday not going to go well...
If you remember the old Johnson paste wax cans...

We would cut a hole in the lid and braise a sparkplug into it. Then put the lid back on the empty can and lift the edge up slightly. Take the acetylene torch and using acetylene gas only (very important as we found out during a test run not to mix in the oxygen), put gas into the can and quickly tap the lid back into place. Take it with us to the bar, open a buddies hood, pull off a spark plug wire and put it on our spark plug can and wait until they came out and jumped in and started it... The BANG always got a rise out of them....

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Somedays I wonder how I am still alive..... :bathitshead:
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Idle hands…..,lol .
 

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