The invention discloses a clamping and lifting type car carrier, including two carrier bodies with the same structure. Each carrier body includes a walking car body for walking, a lifting frame arranged above the walking car body, a lifting mechanism for jacking the lifting frame, and a clamping mechanism arranged on the lifting frame, each clamping mechanism includes guiding rails, two sets of arm clamping holding frames matched with the guiding rail and capable of moving in the horizontal direction, and clamping arms hinged to the arm clamping holding frames; and synchronous gear boxes are arranged on the lifting frames located between the guiding rails, the output ends of the synchronous gear boxes synchronously drive the expansion and contraction of the two sets of clamping arm holdingframe through two sets of synchronous racks, and the input ends of the synchronous gear boxes is connected with a centering motor in a transmitting mode through a transmission mechanism. According tothe clamping and lifting type car carrier, automatic clamping to car wheels is achieved while the center layout of cars about the center of the carrier body is achieved, the functions of the centering device and arm clamping holdingmechanisms are reused, and car -tipping is prevented.