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Quick question here that may bring up some old good memories for some of you guys:

What are some good ideas for practical jokes that can be done to a buddie's car? My friends and I have been going back and forth with things like window paint, wrapping clear plastic wrap around the car, and putting a little peanut butter under the door handles, but I'm out of cheap and easy ideas.

I DO NOT want to make the car un-driveable or change/damage it in any way! No deflated/missing tires, siphoned gas etc.

Just looking for some good clean ideas for some young guys to heckle each other with.

Thanks for any ideas
 
One of the more recent times I was rather upset (to say it lightly) with an acquaintance of mine, me and a couple close friends discussed several ways to get back at him. He drives a 4-door Accord with a sunroof. The sunroof lock was acting up, and could often be opened from the outside just using your fingers. A buddys father at the time was working for a large shipping firm, and had access to foam packing peanuts and pallet wrap.

The plan at the time was to fill the car with something like 100 cubic feet of foam packing peanuts through the sunroof, then seal the car shut with two miles of pallet wrap. Fortunately (likely for all involved), we decided against it.

AR
 
I hate to mess with someones car. Remember what goes around comes around. I don't like anyone messing with my stuff.
 
I was going to suggest the packing peanuts. I knew a guy who had that done to him. I don't know who suffered more for it,him or the car wash where he took it to vacuum it out.
 
Take the contents of a three hole paper punch.

Pour into defrosters.

Set controls to defrost, fan on high.

Their very own ticker tape parade when they start the car :)

You get the initial hit.

And for the next few months the occassional random piece of paper will fly out as a reminder to not mess with the master.
 
If the car is rear wheel, put a large tie band around the driveshaft. Just pull it tight and do not cut off the extra. Sounds like the whole car is coming apart as the drive shaft turns and the tie band hits the car body. They usually break off after a mile or so. DH
 
One of the best jokes I have ever been in on was on a guy that was always bragging about how good of gas mileage he got. We took turns sneaking gas INTO his tank when he was not looking. We had him convinced he was getting off the charts mileage, until we quit adding fuel for him.........
 
Back in high school we got a hold of a bottle of skunk urine at the local hunting suppily store and poured some in a friends radiator.When he used the heater it STUNK ALL WINTER LONG! We didn't ride with him for awhile! so we paid for it with our gas!
 
I talked to the groom several years later about his car-which had been loaded on a flatbed truck at the church. I said how impressed I was about that stunt-I must have been 10 at the time. He said they had gotten better-they would put locking gas caps on the fuel tanks, but tape the key underneath the accelerator pedal. Tank is always full on such occassions, so it does not mess with the first night, but when they need gas it becomes an issue! Greg
 
This was way back when...........before folks locked the car every time they got out; the two folks involved were not particular friends of mine, just some guys I knew. One of 'em got a new car and once or twice a week........every chance he got...........the other one would throw 2 or 3 sheet metal screws in the floorboard, mostly on the driver's side, under the petals. The one with the car was convinced that his dash was eventually gonna come apart; he never found out where the screws were coming from.........
 
if you are electrical inclined put a jumper wire from either turn signal to the horn everytime they put on the turn signal the horn goes off every time the turn signal comes on that will get there attention
 
You could splice a jumper wire between one of the blinkers and the horn... whenever he uses the blinker the horn will beep too... its fun for places that have lots of traffic!
 
Many years ago , just outa high school , I worked at a Dodge dealer changing oil/filters and tires..After hours some of the guys would "bug" anothers car to see if they could figure it out..It was my turn to receive...I got into my Ford Torino , turned the key , it lit and I started to drive away..2 of the mechanics were waving their arms to get me to stop..I finally stopped to see what they wanted...It appears that one of them replaced my coil wire with a piece of vacuum hose with the boots on it..For some reason it conducted electricity inside the hose and ran...Whooda Thunk....
 
Ball bearings in the hub caps if the car has them or in a capped pipe taped to the underside of the car.
 
Put the car on blocks, just barely off the ground, so that it is not noticable. They jump in, put it in gear, and nothing happens. They get out to look, everything looks ok. You get the picture.
 
Many, many moons ago in high school we put a friends VW bug sideways in his school parking spot. Then had 2 other friends park on either side of him. These other 2 guys were on the football team and didn't leave til 6 p.m. most days. The VW guy had early dismissal at 1.

Have fun, but remember payback is a "female dog".

.....don t. .....
 
Get an old bicycle tire tube. Cut about 8" section of the tube off. Slit the end lengthwise back about 3". Then slip the unslit end over the exhaust pipe. It makes a beautiful noise when the engine starts or is reved up. Will not hurt the engine and easy to remove.
WaltMo.
 
My brother was a casanova he would take the women to a farm house on one of our farms.We got ready for him there were some old baby strollers in the house my younger brother who was 13 we stuffed him into one of the strollers and wheeled him into where the action ( casanova) was we laughed our a$$es off he was madder than a wet hornet.
 
Grease or similar product on the windshield wiper blades. Makes a dickens of a mess when they turn on the wipers. Could be dangerous if they waited until they were in traffic to turn on the wipers.

One that I had pulled on me... Had my little Dodge Omni carried up on the boulevard by the rest of the football team, and wedged in between two trees. It needed to be lifted to get it back out.

I've also heard hiding a dead fish somewhere in the vehicle is an effective practical joke. ;-)
 
This was done to my car. I had a studebaker engine apart someone took one of the pistons. Never did find it. I put it together with 5 pistons. Always run kind of rough after that. On my 65 chevy someone swapped the coil wire with one of the plug wires on the cap. When I tried to start it it would only fire one time, action like it was going to start. At the time I am sure my friends thought it was a practical joke. My dad removed the tires from my brothers 35 ford. This was no joke my Dad was serious.Stan
 
I work at a high school, as the disciplinarian, among other things. One kid filled another"s car with packing peanuts. They ended up all over the parking lot. The first kid had to clean them up on his lunch break for three days. On the third day, it rained - the few that were left just melted away (biodegradable peanuts). What a great ending!
 
1962- Friend a year younger had a prom date. When he was inside, I used tape and thumbtacks on everything inside the car. Gearshift, all buttons, controls, three strips across the front seat. Passed on the potato in the exhaust pipe- could stall at the wrong time and kill someone.
 
Hello 1 dollar,
Stick a potato in the tail pipe!
Make it stick good and tight!
Guido.
 
put a big gob of vaseline on the gas cap - he wont find it right away so wont be sure who did it or when
 
I saw one getting filled through the sun roof with wadded up newpaper. No harm done, but just some time lost cleaning it up.

Areo
 
Coupla favorites, take a condom, fill it halfway full of talc or carpenter's chalk dust, hose clamp it to exhaust, Goes off with a big bang, and cloud of dust! Take monofilament fishing line, tie somebody's plastic grill to the bumper of the car in front of it, when either car leaves, so does the grill. Last one, chock all wheels on both sides with small chock blocks, victim thinks his tranny is on the fritz, till he hits the gas hard!
 
Last group that messed with my car years back had one end up in hospital couple days getting his hind end stitched together from knife blade. another couple weeks in cell for me- no big deal, wasn"t first time.
 
Years ago, when most cars had cloth seats, it was easy to solder a hairpin to a 5-foot length of sparkplug wire, then weave the hairpin into the driver's seat, and run the wire down under the seat, through the dash, and into one hole of the distributor cap. When the car started, every time that cylinder was supposed to fire, the driver got zapped in the rear!

When my cousin got married, someone (NOT ME!) went to a bait shop and got 4 pounds of crickets which were turned loose inside the car.... Pretty lively place when the door was opened!
 
Tie the LH turn signal to the horn.

NO problem, car drives nice, and ALL is well 'til the driver signals for a LH turn. Tick HONK - tick - HONK - tick - HONK - tick - HONK, well you get the picture.

Did that to a buddy, at his wedding. He DID NOT think it was funny!

(PLEASE don't "try this at home"!)
 
I like the tarp strap duct taped to driveshaft suggested earlier. Take the hooks out of the strap, tape one end to drive shaft but keep the strap laying on top so it can't be seen.
Harmless, except for the victim getting a bit dirty to reach under and rip it off.
 
Best one I have seen in a while is a guy got under a buddy's truck and pulled down real hard on the parking brake cable and wedged a 2X4 block between it and the frame. Guy almost called a wrecker before he found it.

Dave
 
In the good old days when the gas station pumped your gas...yes they actualy did that in the good ol days! We took a tag and wrote a note on it and tied it to the gas cap. It said these folks are newlyweds please congradulate them. The bride was a bashful gal, and the husband was almost as bad. They actualy thought for a long time they had a guilty look on their faces.

Once we went to a wedding dance and sixty miles away we noticed ---the car--in a motel parking lot at two AM. It was a very small town with a mom and pop motel. I bet everyone in the car I could find out what room the newlyweds were in. I explained to the motel lady that I had the newlyweds keys, and I was the best man, and that they needed the keys they had forgot. It sure took the newlyweds along time to answer the door as me (the fake city cop) demanded they open the door.

My wedding day was long, we were tired and a trusted friend had found the car and tied beer cans under it. The first town the cop stopped us and helped get the cans off the car. When we got to the next town the cops followed us to the far edge of town and pulled us over. After ten munites of them looking through the car, I explained We were newlyweds....The nice first cop had called ahead and told them we had stolen goods in the car. No harm done, kinda a good one.
 
What you do is tape cardboard inside the windows with the peanuts
in between the cardboard and the glass. Much easier on you (fewer
peanuts required), and you get the same reaction when the owner
sees it. And the owner is more likely to think it funny afterwards.
 
Had a friend tie a big old fish to the top of the muffler with bailing wire. Talk about a smell that won't go away.
 
My brother-in-law has been pulling a prank on a buddy of his for quite a while. Every oportunity he gets, he slides an oil-stained piece of cardboard under the guys Harley! The guy can't figure out who is doing it...
 
If you have any Mace or pepper spray when it is freezing out spray some in the heater intake on the outside. After the car warms up, the residue will volitalize and the driver will be in tears, but not enough to cause an accident.
 
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