This is an interesting phrase from my youth. I remember using it, but did it really come from my time, or is it from an earlier time? Is it a drug reference? Who started it? What does it mean exactly?
According to Hunter Davies (Davies, Hunter (1968). The Beatles. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Book Co.. p. 357. ISBN 0-070-154-570.) It has nothing to do with drugs within the context of the song. A friend of Lennon and McCartney, Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, was the inspiration for this line. He died in a car crash. He didn't "blow his ind out ina car" but Lennon says Browne was on his mind as he wrote that line of the song.
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