I knew a guy who got so mad at his 1962 Valiant that he stabbed it repeatedly with a huge screwdriver! I guess he showed the car who was boss!
Shades of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) (did you ever see Fawlty Towers over there?) beating his car with a tree branch because it wouldn't start....
Only clip I can find - excuse the subtitles in (Hungarian? Polish? Czech?)