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Silverghost said:
Um, Tony......why is the white MG wearing a toupee?? Won't it blow off at highway speeds??! :laugh: LOL
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hehehe...the hood is now in its correct location.

Steve_S said:
Tony, most people do this by building a loft. The 4-post lift is placed on casters and becomes a portable elevator. It isn't the easiest way to get cars in and out but for people who collect rather than drive it works pretty well. A collector near me has done this in his warehouse.
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My problem is an 11'4" ceiling height...all the structural engineers I've talked with tell me they can't design one that clear spans the area I want to turn into a loft...at least not to handle the weight of cars & still allow me to walk under to open doors of cars stored there.

{Oh, Steve...how do you get cars out of your garage? Do you leave them in neutral & just pull them out by hand?}
 
tony barnhill said:
Oh, Steve...how do you get cars out of your garage? Do you leave them in neutral & just pull them out by hand?
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Yes, that's exactly how I do it! There is no room to get out unless you can climb over the cars, and I never run the cars in the garage anyway because I hate the fumes. I've become quite good at lining them up. At first I had to make several "runs" at it (gotta build up speed to get over the lift feet). After a while I could pull the car up to the garage door, open it and push the car right in. I usually push it in half-way to make sure it's good, and then push for real. The slightest variance would put one fender into another quite easily.

Now on the bright side, I no longer keep a car in the center except for special occasions, such as unusually bad weather or when I leave for a trip. The truck typically gets the center spot now.
 
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What I want is a 4-post lift that's an always 'up' storage lift - no hydraulics to raise/lower, just 'up'...I can move my 4-post around to it, raise a car & push it off onto the storage lift...anybody know where I can get one? [/quote]


You are probably going to have to modify what is called a pallet rack. They are used in warehouses for palletized storage of parts, groceries etc. They are readily available the problem is getting just a few of them. When obsolete racking is removed, there are miles of it. I am sure the dimensions will not be correct for your application.
 
Mark, I've thought about that but the guys at my local Lowe's don't think it would hold 2 cars....remember, I want to clear span 3 cars that would be underneath.
 
I've actually seen what Tony is looking for. I don't know if it was custom or not, but it was a long rack of cars, one per "shelf" with shared columns between each. They were either bolted or welded together into one long unit. A 4-post lift was rolled in front of whichever car they wanted down, then the car rolled onto the lift and lowered. It would be a serious pain in the butt to get cars in and out this way, especially if there were cars in front of the shelves, but for long-term storage or "collector-only" cars it would be a much cheaper way to go than buying a bunch of 4-post lifts.
 
I'm looking at something else...there's a company here in Huntsville that builds storage racks for places like Lowe's....they tell me they can build a set (2) of uprights that'll hold 3500 lbs.....I'm thinking 3 sets would be enough to go under a 'mezzanine' wide enough to hold 2 MGA's.....now, I've gotta visit with them to give them the total weight of the 2 cars & the flooring so they can see if they van design a beam system between those sets that'll span 20' & hold what I want to put up there.
 
I missed A Quiklift by 5 min's on the weekend painted for $700. Anybody see used ones for sale?

Cheers

Mark
 
almost a month old

https://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-...QQAdIdZ85551141

today

https://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-tools-equipment-9-000-lb-2-POST-HOIST-W0QQAdIdZ88637147

about a month

https://london.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-t...QQAdIdZ87557617

BTW a friend recently sold a Rolls to a collector in Quebec. Apparantly he has 400+ cars. My friend counted 7 Lambos and 2 Deusenbergs. But was telling me about the Jag building - 3 high and 7 across like a wine rack - and he had more than one building
 
That is one swinging front end. Bad bad bad.

Sure glad someone is takeing care of it.
 
Really want something to store cars up high - & the Stinger product is as expensive as a full-up 4-post lift!
 
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