29-06-2020, 08:31 PM
Hi Bruce
In my experience with old cars it was just as likely to be a "mechanic" or his apprentice. In garages they never seem to have any odd blocks of wood for jacking cars not with the now standard reinforced sills. Javelin cars have an integral sheet metal box section chassis and these are always very damaged by garage jacks. My Minx car has a front cross member which would suit an armoured car. Yet some "mechanic" has even managed to dent that. The car has jacking points at the extremities but I always have to stop warrant of fitness "experts" jacking on the sills.
In my experience with old cars it was just as likely to be a "mechanic" or his apprentice. In garages they never seem to have any odd blocks of wood for jacking cars not with the now standard reinforced sills. Javelin cars have an integral sheet metal box section chassis and these are always very damaged by garage jacks. My Minx car has a front cross member which would suit an armoured car. Yet some "mechanic" has even managed to dent that. The car has jacking points at the extremities but I always have to stop warrant of fitness "experts" jacking on the sills.