Originally Posted by alamostation

32 years ago I had an adrenaline rush experience.

I was converting my Sunbeam Alpine from steel wheels to wire wheels, which involves changing out the wheel hubs. I did not have jack stands, but had bricks stacked on both sides of the front end to within an inch of body. I had a jack lifting the body about an inch above the bricks.

My father-in-law-at-the-time was under the car to hold the wrench on a bolt on the back side of brake rotor. He wiggled to get better leverage and kicked out the jack. The car fell to the bricks and my father-in-law wasn't in danger of being killed, but he was pretty squished, and he yelled like Hell.

I still don't how I did it, but I grabbed the front bumper and lifted the car so he could squirm out.

The wheels were off the front. The car weighed around 2100 pounds, and was front end heavy. I figure I lifted between 1000 and 1200 pounds. I know I would be hard pressed to lift 200 pounds today.