Car Ramps?

[charby]

Once you take the frame out, most of the other pieces are easy to turn over when you need to work on the bottom of them.

It's not about doing body work, but working on the frame, suspension and drive train at a comfortable height.

There are other apparatuses for doing body work. Front clips are manageable once taken apart, but the body off a full frame car/truck is not.

[zahc]

I think those were viable 1950s-1970s when more people did general repair on their vehicles, and for the most part vehicles were simpler to work on and many things were just universal from vehicle to vehicle
 

Shared resources are actually needed even more now, because nobody can afford the $600 dealer tool you need to flush your brakes or other simple things on their own.

[mtnbkr]

Shared resources are actually needed even more now, because nobody can afford the $600 dealer tool you need to flush your brakes or other simple things on their own.

27 years of auto ownership covering cars of the 70s, 90s, early and current aughts and I've never been prevented from doing the work I want to do by virtue of lacking a "dealer tool".  There are plenty of alternative processes and tools to get you around that "requirement".

Chris

[charby]

27 years of auto ownership covering cars of the 70s, 90s, early and current aughts and I've never been prevented from doing the work I want to do by virtue of lacking a "dealer tool".  There are plenty of alternative processes and tools to get you around that "requirement".

Chris

Same. I actually can't recall anything I've worked on that required a tool so specialized I couldn't find at the auto parts or hardware store.

[Boomhauer]

There are generally workarounds for specialized tooling...even at the dealer level I rarely use what the service manual calls for to do a job