MPG A True Story

[Auggie56]

In the 1960s a firefighter bought a ‘new’ Volkswagen Beetle Bug & was bragging to his coworkers about how great his gas mileage is compared to their cars. He bragged about 22 mpg the week before, & was now getting 23-24 mpg. Of course this made the guys decide to set up a prank, secretly pouring an ever increasing amount of extra gasoline in his bug’s gasoline tank every shift. Every day the firefighter came in more giddy than the past shift, elated that his mpg kept getting better and better by the day. He was now up to like 40 mpg after a few weeks of the prank, & bragged about his VW was superior to their cars. That’s when the firefighters changed to part two of the prank, secretly removing an increasing amount of fuel every shift over the next few weeks. The firefighter became increasingly worried about his decreasing fuel mileage, until after several weeks he eventually told the crew he had went to the Volkswagen dealership just the day before & yelled at the employees there about how mad he now was. That’s when the crew fessed up to the prank!
Use this story at your own risk...

 

[gkent]

In the mid 50's my dad bought a VW. We used to take our vacations in the US and he often got asked if he had built the car. And of course there was quite a bit of surprise that it was rear engined and air cooled. Once we blew a tire and it was 4 hours before something was finally found that would fit.

 

[Kern Dog]

I used to do this to the Wife's Honda 2 or 3 times a week. One day I took it too far and added too much and she noticed the gauge was too high. It was funny for a little while.

 

[slimt]

I had a 53 Willys aero Eagle 2 dr hdtop they said it was a 50 mpg car... I believed it when half the time it was being towed by a wrecker.. true story..

 

[multimopes]

I actually had a friend 40 years back who did the same thing to a bragging neighbor. When the mileage began dropping like a rock he took it back several times to the dealer who could find nothing wrong. My friend never relented intermittently removing fuel, because the neighbor was a nasty prick, and the owner finally got pissed off and sold the car.

 

[GetX'd]

I wish I could get someone to prank me and keep adding fuel to my GTX. I get like 5mpg with the stoked 494 Six Pack motor. It drinks fuel .......

 

[dsd1967]

I live in Ohio and worked with a guy that was a big Michigan fan. He had a battery powered Michigan clock on his desk and every morning I would religiously come in before him and set it backwards about 3 minutes. The one day I see him putting a battery in it, so going forward I would come in and set it ahead by about 3 minutes every morning. This went on for about 2 weeks before I heard him come in one morning and say "piece of sh!t" and he threw it in the trash can. I waited about 3 days after to ensure trash was long gone to tell him what I did

 

[67440chrg]

When I was in my 20s I got a nice new to me truck. A a** coworker started putting ATF in my tank a little at a time I started thinking the engine was going bad. He fessed up thinking I may do something like tare it apart or drive it to hard thinking it was going bad.

 

[Kern Dog]

I worked a job 11 years ago for a School district. lots of guys on the payroll that barely worked but had great senses of humor.
One guy that was there liked to pull pranks on co-workers. One dude left his work boots there and wore sneakers to and from work. He used to put the guy's boots in the walk-in freezer after the man left for the night and pull them out in the morning before the guy showed up. With another guy, he would take his broom handle and shorten it ONE inch every other day. I'd imagine that after a week or two the guy caught on to the joke.

 

[jmk77379]

I had a colleague that bought a Prius. Another employee was passing him on the highway at 5 am on the way to work and they exchanged honks. When they got to work the Prius driver was informed his headlights dimmed when he honked. He went home and put the car in the garage and had his wife honk the horn to try to duplicate the anomaly. This went on for days. Us Hellkat drivers thank the Prius owners for saving us the gas.