Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place?

They must be students of physics

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

It’s a simple dead lift (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadlift) movement, 5 or 6 people can flip a car; they aren’t actually lifting the whole car. I would guess that the amount of lift required to flip a car is probably less than 50% of the total car weight. i.e. 1000kg car requires 500kg of lift divided by 5 people =100kg dead lift each………well within the ability of you average 17-55 year old male. but each car is likely covered with finger, palm, forearm, face(cheek) prints all which can be used to identify these people…….

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

Well they’re not actually lifting the entire weight of the car, they’re just slipping it on its shortest axis. One of Schwarzenegger’s famous party tricks at the peak of his career was deadlifting the back end of a buik (much heavier car on its longest axis). It would probably also be possible to “cheat” by generating some momentum using the suspension (i.e. rocking it back and forth and just tip it over at the end).

So they could be looking for one massive dude or 4 or 5 moderately strong adult males.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

I used to drive a ford laser and my jerk friends at the time decided that it was fun to pick the car up and rotate it 90 degrees. It was paraell parked on a street at the time. It only took 6 of the guys in the early 20’s.
I guess if you got 5 or 6 people all lifting one side it wouldn’t be that hard.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

They’re not lifting the full ton, if there were 4 or 5 of them they would only be lifting 100 – 150kg each…. Definitely not hard.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

Easier than you think would be my guess. Just takes a 6 or 8 people. I remember stories of the Marist rugby team moving teachers’ cars around the carpark, or into places they couldn’t drive out of.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

5 people could do it with some effort, maybe even 4 if they were strong enough. They would only be lifting around half the weight as the opposite wheels would act as a fulcrum.

I remember reading about vandals in Amsterdam that were picking up smart cars and tossing them into canals.

Cars aren’t hard to tip if you have a few people.

When they tip a B-double I’ll be officially impressed.

What a bunch of bullys picking on the small cars.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place?

Many hands make light work.

Tetranitrate said :

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

It wouldn’t be that difficult with the right personnel. In 1993 I was collecting shopping trolleys at Coolo and there was a gang of local kids who hung around the centre who used to do that sort of thing. Two members of the gang were massive Pacific Islanders and they used to do the heavy lifting (quite literally).

How would they actually do this in the first place? Most of those cars are smallish, but apart for the KA will still weigh more than a ton. (1.25 on new Corollas according to Toyota and I’d guess the early-mid 90s models that are still floating around would be higher).

It would be more ‘upsetting’ if the owners were in the vehicles at the time…

p1 said :

I won’t be impressed until they can flip a cop car.

With pics

I won’t be impressed until they can flip a cop car.