Re: [AMC-List] AMC vs Ford engine weight.

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was about 17 my brother decided to change the front shock on our 232 American, two door hardtop. Not knowing what he was doing he used a bumper jack! Took the tire off! Then proceeded to unpolt the bottom of the shock. The car promptly fell off the bumper jack, driving the 3/8" ratchet head thru his hand pinning him to the concrete driveway! I was there by myself not close enough to stop him before this happened. My choices were to leave him pinned to the dirveway while I jacked the car back up with a bumper jack or pick up that corner of the car. I failed on the first try. It told myself impossible or not I HAD to do it. On the second try I lifted that car enough to get him free.
  To this day his ring finger his curled and frozen due to this accident as all the bones in the finger and knuckle were crushed and fuzed solid when they healed.
   When we returned home after taking him to the hospital I tried to lift that corner of the car again. No dice! My dad tried, he could not do it either! Keep in mind how low a 65 American bumper is to the ground with no wheel or tire on it! The leverage angles are way bad to even try this. Adrenalin is powerful Stuff!
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> " From: Archimedes <Freedom@xxxxxxxx>
> " 
> " 
> " At 03:40 AM 11/16/2006 +0000, Andy Hay wrote:
> " 
> " >i also note they say a 199 weighs 500 lbs.
> " 
> " 
> " And to think that in 1979, I was foolish enough to lift one off of a 
> " workbench and walk it twenty feet into the shed.  Yes, by myself.  And no, 
> " I can't remember how I got it to the floor, but I didn't drop it.
> " 
> " No wonder I have back trouble now.
> " 
> " -- Marc Montoni
> 
> yikes!!!  you aren't built like a football tackle are you?
> 
> i've heard war stories of navy guys pitching 500lb bombs overboard
> when a carrier was on fire, but i always figured you needed a -lot- of
> adrenalin for that kind of feat...
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