I don't know if you'd count this one...
Years ago I was producing a record for one band that decided they wanted to put car sounds on one song, the usual stuff like reving engines & horns. So we all headed out to the parking lot & started up our cars, but rather then grabbing a microphone or two from the studios collection & running a couple hundred feet of cable I grabbed a microcassette recorder and stuck it on the fence. Let tape roll for about 5 or 10 minutes outside, then brought it back inside the studio and stuck a microphone on the recorders speaker to "play" the car sounds onto the multi-track.