Stephenzone wrote:

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i have a chain hoist with falls. the beam spans the shop 24 ft and for the other end of the car i brought in a old swing set made out of 2x6. i know it works because i used it to lift the 69 caprice off the trailer

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Here's how I do it now. kind of long, sorry.

To lift or lower my body and lacking a garage, the main thing to overcome this is, I built 4 very tall jackstands with threaded rods to raise and lower a pad on top of them. They can raise about 4 feet, and go as low as about 2 1/2. A tripod base with 3 adjustable feet in the base to level them if need be...

Jack up the rear end with a floor jack and place the rear wheels on ramps or blocks. Place a 2" square by about 9' long heavywall piece of square tubing across, forward and under the top body door brace bars (seen in earlier picture). Clamp it onto the braces.
Loosen all the body bolts.
Jack up the front with a floor jack under the front crossmember as high as I can get it. A block of wood under it as well to increase lift.
Place the front jacks under that cross brace attached to the door braces. Clamp them to it.
Raise them up slightly. Taking out the slack.
With the back bumper or valance off, place the rear jacks in each far corner, just under the rearmost trunk crossbrace.
Raise them up a little.
Lower the front floor jack, letting the free chassis to separate from the body and come down untill the front wheels touch the ground.
Raise the front jacks to the upper limit.
Raise the rear jacks to the upper limit. Separating the rear body from the frame.
With the floor jack under the rear diff, raise it up slightly, enough to remove the ramps.
Lower it to the ground untill the rear wheel touch the ground.
Roll the chassis forward untill it clears the body.

The front jacks are far enough outboard on the crossbar, that the rear wheels will simply roll between them, and the body is high enough thet the tires will clear the floor pans.

No sweat!

Here's a shot of the "MegaStands"