[Shop-talk] Downsizing tools and maximizing garage space

[pethier at comcast.net]

Now, if you REALLY want to spend money, there is an outfit that will install a lift that goes DOWN and stores your car unseen underground.  Don't forget to move the top car out before retrieving the bottom car...

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----- "Richard George" <rkg at teleport.com> wrote:

> From: "Richard George" <rkg at teleport.com>
> To: "Patton Dickson" <57healey at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Healey List" <healeys at autox.team.net>, "Shop-Talk" <shop-talk at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 8:54:28 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Downsizing tools and maximizing garage space
>
> Patton,
> There used to be lifts designed by harding-afg specifically for
> storing 
> cars that would lift and/or tilt the upper vehicle in
> various ways, varying from storing the cars above each other to simply
> 
> tilting the front car forward so you could nose the other car in 
> underneath it.
> I have one of these and currently store two cars on top of each other
> in 
> a garage with an 8' ceiling (with a beam in the middle(!)).
> 
> You might see if somebody still makes a unit like this.
> 
> Best,
> rkg
> (Richard George)
> > I don't have enough yard to grow the garage, plus it would be
> nearly
> > impossible to get by our HOA.   As for the lift, I don't have the
> ceiling
> > height for that, just 8 feet with a garage door in the way when
> raised.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Eric J Russell
> <ejrussell at mebtel.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Have you considered up-sizing the garage? Or a four post lift to
> park two
> >> cars in the footprint of one?
> >>
> >> Eric Russell
> >> Mebane, NC
> >> http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patton Dickson"
> <57healey at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>  I have come to the conclusion I want a second "toy" in the garage
> ( I
> >>     
> >>> think a Saab 900 Turbo convertible) and one of the wife's biggest
> >>> objections is how I am going to fit it and the Healey in my 20x20
> >>> garage.
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> > I don't have enough yard to grow the garage, plus it would be
> nearly
> > impossible to get by our HOA.   As for the lift, I don't have the
> ceiling
> > height for that, just 8 feet with a garage door in the way when
> raised.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Eric J Russell
> <ejrussell at mebtel.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Have you considered up-sizing the garage? Or a four post lift to
> park two
> >> cars in the footprint of one?
> >>
> >> Eric Russell
> >> Mebane, NC
> >> http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patton Dickson"
> <57healey at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>  I have come to the conclusion I want a second "toy" in the garage
> ( I
> >>     
> >>> think a Saab 900 Turbo convertible) and one of the wife's biggest
> >>> objections is how I am going to fit it and the Healey in my 20x20
> >>> garage.
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