Not Taking Any Chances
Considering that the school principal was seen as a serious authority figure, it is safe to say that most students were probably scared of their own principal. But when the principal is your dad, there is a certain level of transparency between the student body and the authority figures…

This transparency comes in handy when a message needs to get across in secrecy… It seems like the principal himself didn’t mind the practical joke, but he just wasn’t going to take any chances of his Chevy Vega getting put up there.