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

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: I used to change motors by hand back in 1975-1979 (before I fell off a 
roof on June 28 1979 and broke 2 vertebrae that almost left me paralyzed for 
life). I'd push the car close to the work bench, then put a couple planks 
across the tops of the fenders and straddle the wheel well. I'd grab the low 
rafter in the shop with one hand and heft the motor up with the other and 
set it on the plank, climb down and slide it over to the bench.
   Yes, I WAS built like a football player back then, but I grew up on a 
farm and tossed bales of alfalfa and hay from the age of 8 or so. We did 
haying every year and it seemed we got it stacked ever higher on the farm 
truck as I got older. (I started out as the steering operator with the truck 
at @5 years old with it cruising in bo low because I couldn't reach the 
pedals except in an emergency until I was 6 and had a HUUUGE growth spurt)
   Is it any wonder I played football and would've been on the Canadian 
Olympic weightlifting team (if they hadn't pulled out due to Russia being in 
Afghanistan)
   Now I'm afraid most of the Ahnold muscle has turned to Molson muscle 
(after a car fell on me in '95 I couldn't work much for a year and my 
thyroid was damaged which took my energy and gave me weight gain)
   As for adrenaline, when the car fell on me, I was nearly back to my prime 
condition and I was able to bench press the front of that '91 Honda Civic 
off of me and throw the car back a good 10 feet through the garage door!


From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] AMC vs Ford engine weight.
To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <200611170841.kAH8f5E22825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

" 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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