Recently I saw a landau roof on an older Camry. I laughed and had to explain to my girlfriend what it was and the history of it.

I think because the question yesterday asked what car fads have died off. These are sadly very much alive and on every goddamn Civic and Explorer around here.

This was the very reason that the wristwatch was invented. For example, pilots and soldiers were always needing to check the time and gloved, dirty or otherwise occupied hands could not pull out their pocket watches.

I can kind of see these things on older cars, but growing up in the '80s and '90s I saw them on all kinds of modern cars.

Sadly these were most frequently seen on the most mundane cars as an attempted style mod. '88 Honda civic 4 door DX? Curb feelers. '87 Nissan Sentra? Sure, you've got to protect those steel wheels somehow. It was also really common on '80s thunderbirds.

Nope, Oregon.

Yes! When I bought my car they could have used so many options for financing, even my own credit union. They actually shopped around and got a slightly lower rate at a different credit union.

I'll never understand how a device that says to the world "I can't figure out how to park" was ever fashionable.

Yes, but these still required care to not bend the hands while feeling the time. The heavier and more durable the hands, the more strain on the movement and a loss of accuracy will result.

It is innovative because those old mechanical watches required you to touch the hands. If not done delicately it would bend and jam the mechanism.

True, but the early watches for the blind were mechanical pocket watches that required feeling the hands. If done not done delicately they could bend and jam the mechanism.

The back of the wrist isn't sensitive enough to determine exact pin location. Close your eyes and have a friend press with one, two or three points in different positions and try to guess how many and where.

Then you have to figure leverage and how much the now lifted opposite wheel is helping counter balance that weight. It is beyond what I can calculate however I really do believe it is physically possible.

Nobody said a thing about it being light. Merely that it is possible for one person to rock the car enough to free something trapped under it.

Yeah, I figure someone can calculate the approximate weight but leverage and what direction the force will need to be applied are much more difficult. Pushing with one's legs toward and upward would be doable, but maintaining grip would be the hardest part.

Yes, and this takes more lateral force than lifting. This is perfectly plausible without her being superhuman.

Leveling it would most likely bring the rotor off the ground. There are already problems with how this is presented as we know it cannot ever be the "entire weight of the Jeep" that she lifted. It was most likely not lifted up, just enough to slide out to the side.

Possibly, but lets assume that like many other vehicles when you remove one wheel the opposite corner is now lifted off the ground. If she had a few inches to level it before the opposing wheel ever worked against her this would be enough to free him. A combination of lift and lateral push would do it.

I'm sure someone out there with a better understanding of physics and mathematics could calculate how much weight she actually moved. I'm guessing it was less of a lifting up and more of a leveling of the vehicle.