Amaz0ns reader Bob77 recently pointed out a video distributed by GMV Productions in Australia, called Women's Muscle Power #11. It looks excellent and features Lesa Lewis, Lisa Bavington, Valentina Chepiga and Christine Envall. Most of the footage was taken at the 2000 Ms. Olympia and 2001 Arnold Expo.
Britt Miller was challenged to demonstrate her strength a week or two back, and would up deadlifting one side of what appears to be a 1982 or 1983 Buick LeSabre or Regal. While I wasn't able to find the shipping weight of either car of that vintage online, I did find the shipping weight of the 1982 Chevrolet Caprice Classis, which my freakish memory spit out as having been built on the same GM chassis with the same engine, drive train, etc as the LeSabre - the most commonly produced version of the Caprice weighed about 3500 pounds. I imagine the Regal would have had a similar weight.
I don't have the math to determine the amount of force Britt would need to apply to heft the car - less than half the total weight, I'm sure, but probably more than a quarter. In a second picture at her blog, the owners of the car are actually sitting on the hood. In the first picture the wheels have been lifted completely free of the ground, perhaps a foot or more above the pavement.
Oddly enough, the same day Britt performed this astonishing feat, Cecil Adams addressed the topic in his The Straight Dope column - SuperMom: Could a mother actually lift a car to save her child? Cecil has trouble giving a conclusive answer, but in light of this I think he'd have to admit the answer is a pretty firm "you bet your ass!"
Also oddly, this past week I had engine problems and pushed my truck about a quarter of a mile, mostly on a declining grade but with inclines as well. The inclines were back-breaking - I wished I still had my Mazda. When I told a friend what I had done she informed me that I am a "wild person" who has no common sense and that I should have simply called for a tow. Imagine what she'd say about Britt lifting a pimped-out decrepit dinosaur for the benefit of a bunch of suburban ricers?
Frank Cho is the artist on this month's New Avengers (#15), and it's a great-looking book. He inserts various little gags - as an example, in one panel Wolverine is shown wearing a "Beltsville" t-shirt, which is a reference to Liberty Meadows, Cho's famous strip. Another amusing little vignette is Wolverine guzzling an entire gallon of milk, at least some of which winds up on his costume. Historically Wolverine has been more frequently depicted guzzling beer and smoking cigars, so I assume this is social satire by Cho.
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