How to lift an Austin Seven onto a 70ft rooftop

[Ian]

An interesting (and funny!) story I was told whilst being shown some of the Cambridge colleges the other weekend...

Cambridge University's 1958 car on roof prank secrets revealed

Fifty years on an explanation for one of the most ingenious student prank of all time has finally been provided.

The group of engineering students who carried out the stunt have reunited to reveal their identities and explain how they winched the Austin Seven to the top of the university's 70ft-high Senate House.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2210696/Cambridge-Universitys-1958-car-on-roof-prank-secrets-revealed.html

[Brian Thompson]

Nice one Ian, I really enjoyed that! Why don't students do things like that nowadays eh?! Just brilliant!

Great story that and a very ingenious execution! They should have left it up there I reckon!!!