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With the trailer approach you could work on a low car in the garage or a taller vehicle out in the driveway.
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The average garage for a car has a door that is 8' wide and 7' tall. The width of a standard car trailer is 100" or 102" wide to allow for a deck that is 78" or 80" wide.
I'd be surprised if the trailer would fit into the garage, and if it's only 7' tall, I doubt it would clear the header with a car on top either.
The other issue is the cost, it would be more money to do this than to (as Frank mentioned) just buy a hoist.
The simplest way (and IMHO safest) way to work under a car is to make either a pit the car can straddle, or a pair of ramps (maybe incorporated into a retaining wall) such that there is room to get under the car.
My friend's Dad did this years ago, they had a retaining wall that supported a space to park an RV, as well as the back portion of the garage. He made a pair of buttresses that projected out as supports for the wall, but spaced such that he could drive out onto them leaving room between them to work (oil changes mostly) under the car.
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As far turning a car on its side the only questionable things to remove would be the battery that I can think of and the fuel.
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You also have to be very careful to either leave the car sitting back on it's wheels for some time after rotating it, or pull out all the spark plugs.
It's surprisingly easy for oil or gas to seep up into the cylinders, turning over an engine with liquid in the cylinders is a great way to kill it in short order. Liquid is not compressible. You can blow head gaskets, destroy starters and or ring gears, pop or wedge pistons, all sorts of nasty stuff can happen.
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Legendery talk show host and car collector Jay Leno is a proud new owner of a Dannmar MaxJax Lifting System. So proud in fact, that he saw fit to demo it on his website: www.jaylenosgarage.com.
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I wouldn't exactly put a lot of credence in what a particular celebrity endorses.
I'm pretty sure the endorsement has more to do with how high the price got, and not how high the car got. 
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Ken, I think what he's getting at is not just the vertical weight carrying capacity of the stands. The tall ones (more than ~36" high) that I've seen all say not to use them to support a vehicle, they are intended, and I believe called, safety stands.
They are intended to support the car in the case of the hoist failing, or to stabilize it for working on it, while the car is in the air on a lift and you are under it.
If you've ever worked on a car while it's sitting on a 2 post hoist, you'll know what I mean, there's a surprising amount of motion in the vehicle.
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