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.

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1983 300SD "Guderian"
1987 MR2
2015 Camry
2015 Chevy Spark
2006 Hyundai Tucson

Scary! But thats not an adrenaline rush experience. Skydiving, snow boarding, mountain bike racing, all provide that over and over. Even being on a roller coaster provides hours of spiked adrenaline levels.

What you describe is "Hysterical Strength".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength

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1991 560 SEL / 185k miles
1992 750il / 17k miles - project car

It doesn't count unless there is some real risk involved.

First time I got layed !!!!

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

X2 on both replys.

As far as "adrenaline rushes" go...
That's what we do around here almost every day !!

They usually start right after we yell: "CLEAR !!" and end when we put the chocks back around the tires.

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I’ve often wondered about these sort of events.
Did you experience any reactions afterward?
Sore or torn muscles? Back issues?

I’ve heard of these sort of events happening. I’ve always wondered about the actual mechanics of it all. I'm thinking that on average, the human body wasn’t designed to do this sort of thing, but obviously sometimes it can.
At what cost though (if any)?

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

What about when your cruising in your car and you exit the highway and a biker from the access lane juts out in front of you and you slam on your brakes and he slams on his so hard the back end of his bike is sliding and you come uber close to nailing this idiot and then you hear screeching tires from behind you and you look back a car barely escapes from hitting you? Is that feeling of elevated heart pounding and supreme awareness of your surroundings for the entire rest of the drive home an adrenaline rush? If so then yes. If not, then no.

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

Maybe if you're the one on the bike; in a car, not so much.

Yep.
Ya gotta love those rushes that leave your legs all rubbery for twenty minutes.


& Good point Craig.

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1980 300D - Veggie Burner !

It took you 32 years to calm down enough to write it up?

About 20 yrs ago I was driving from LA to Tucson. I was west of Phoenix on I-10 at night. Pitch black on a 2 lane doing about 70-75 or so. Something shoots out in front of me and I instinctively tried to avoid it. Car did a 360 from the fast lane to the right shoulder. Scared the living daylights out of me. Ended up separating the tread on one of the tires. That was fun.

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accidentally skiing down a double black in Vail and making it down alive!

Doing the same thing on purpose can be "interesting" if you lose focus.

An incident almost EXACTLY like this was depicted long ago in a 1955 film called "Wee Geordie" that I saw when it first came out when I was 8 yeazrs old.

I think the car was an old Austin, maybe an A40 .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMVeBlePtk

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I learned that where you look is where you end up... Sadly at the time I had a gf and the cute snow board girl was totally up for hanging out after the lifts closed. ha