OT Watching a Patty Duke epiode from 1966, another teenager keeps working under his car with nothing holding it up afaict but bumper jack. There scenes like that.
I know I didn't have safety stands until 1970 or maybe much later, but I also didn't lie under the car when it was jacked up.
Was this sort of standard in 1956, for teenagers, amateurs, even pros?
I've had my car fall off the bumper jack twice, once when it was on a hill, I was only changing a tire and I didn't put anything under the car, only my arms in the wheel well for a few seconds. Once I had to borrow a jack from another guy on the street, to get my jack out, and then I used both jacks.