Thorndyke offers Jim some alcoholic beverage when first meeting him in his car salon, but when discovering that he is not a rich man looking for expensive cars, comically takes it back, enraged.
Two characters, one of them the driver of a car, share a bottle of champagne in the middle of a race.
A character smokes a cigarette.
Thorndyke and Tennessee get plastered off "Irish coffee", which Thorndyke pours down Herbie's gas tank, causing him to malfunction, or become a car version of drunk.