Almost best car prank...

Color me sour, but I've never been "big" on screwin with guy's cars, nor do/ did I ever like it if mine was screwed with. I can assure you this did not happen more than a couple of times.

But there WAS one notable exception. When I was at N.A.S. Miramar, there was "Charlie," the spittin' image of Frank Burns (MASH). This guy was so lifer, he was born with a coffee mug on one finger.

In the early 70's he bought a Toyota, and was braggin' one day how great it was, and how "nobody could steal it" because it had a "cable release" on the hood.

He was still out working on some gear, my partner and I were at the shop --we had to sleep over at the RADAR site. While he was gone, the then much more slender and trim 67Dart273 and his acomplice (Dave Hesford) went out and I stuck my hand and needle nose up in front of the radiator and released the latch.

Then we put the coil wire inside the air filter and wrote on the lid with grease pencil "Look in here stupid."

Well I thought the damn fool was gonna ruin the starter and run the battery down. We finally had to go out and get under the hood and "find" the coil wire. We sure didn't wanna be stuck there with Charlie all night!!!!