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Restoration (Page 2)  In this picture, the rotisserie is hooked up to the frame of the car with the body still attached. The combined weight was too much for the rotisserie. It could lift it and I could even tilt it about 45 degrees, but when I tried to lower the car back down, the square tubing that the jack is mounted to would bind on the inner tube and nothing short of a sledge hammer would bring it down again. I was able to get it going up and down after I lubricated the inner tube however. Problem was, I still could not rotate the car more than 45 degrees by myself with the weight of the wheels and the rear end hanging off the bottom of the car. Plus, the way it caused the square tubing to bow made me a little nervous about crawling in and under the car. So the body and the frame had to be separated.
 Here's the car up on jack stands after the frame was rolled out of the way and  before it was hooked up to the rotisserie. I had to borrow some jack stands
from Inter-City Collision Repairs and some blocks from the neighbor to get the body up high enough to roll the chassis out. Thanks to Len at Inter-City!
And then, here's the frame waiting to be disassembled.
At long last, here is the body up on the rotisserie finally! With the body balanced you can pretty much turn this thing with one hand and the brakes have no problem holding the car in any position. Just for saftety's sake I used some straps to hold things in place. The wheels in this photo would not support the car as they were under rated. I looked into getting them filled with foam but unless they are 8 ply tires the sides couldn't contain the foam. So I have found some solid wheels rated at 900lbs each at Peavey Mart for half the price I paid for these wheels. I'll screw these wheels to the bottom of a wooden pallet and it can be used to store suff that needs to be moved around the garage easily. 
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