If you like laughing at clueless Yanks and their mechanical ineptitude, try Googling for stories of doing this with an auto-box Lexus.
Partly because the Lexus is designed to happily sit idling in gear all day whilst running the aircon, they've powered the auto box oilpump from the input shaft. Obviously this gets unhappy when towed far, so the usual fix is to install an after-market electric oilpump for the gearbox. Chummy here had such an install, with a switch under the bonnet to activate it. But being a moron, he forgot to turn it on, and being American this was of course someone else's fault.