Honestly i got that lift years ago when craigslist was the thing (i was looking for a low profile race jack). Somebody north jersey had it for $2500. I offered $1600, he offered $2200, i offered $1600. He offered $2000, i offered $1600. Went on for 2 months. Finally 2 weeks before that christmas he sent me an email saying if i still had that $1600 christmas was coming early to me. It was one of those cases where you have to means to disassemble, transport, reassemble. Which was a serious under taking. The ramp with the hydraulics is like 500lbs by itself.
It's a Bendpak HD7P, i think bendpak used to sell it for $3800 delivered and setup at the time. I did fail to calculate that my garage door would hit the lift when it went up. So then i had to do a high lift conversion, which was another project in itself.
The real beauty in this lift is that with an 11'2 garage ceiling, i can put it all the way up with my car on it and walk under it at 6'1 without ducking. So all winter i can use the garage as if it's not even in there.
A few years later i got tired of jacking up the car on the lift to take the wheels up and bought a hydraulic slide jack that goes between the rails.
Most people think the lift is ridiculous, but when i had my saleen explorer the converter locked up, trans place wanted to either replace or rebuild it at $2500, i took the pan off and a spring broke above the valve body (i had put a shift kit in it), a piece of that spring jammed a valve, i bought a new $8 valve, $100 in fluid and drove it the rest of the time i owned it, trouble free. From that time on i have declared the lift paid for itself.
I'm by no means wealthy but i can fix almost anything and know how to buy things from people in person with cash (A skill that is lost on the youth of today). .
I also have issues with "escalation" in every hobby. So it's no surprise i needed a jack and bought a lift. There's the time i needed a shovel and bought a trencher. I had a $20 rc heliopter, then i needed a collective pitch stunt copter. It goes on and on with every hobby. Another time decided i wanted an arcade game i played at the boardwalk, i couldn't find it, so i bought a different one, then another and another until i had 30 arcade and pinball machines. Again, i'm not wealthy but i love good broken stuff at dirt cheap prices. I'm kinda over that hobby, i've had about 60 games in the past 10 years which include every game i've ever played in the arcade (that i can get into my basement). I kept the 10 the kids and I loved most and sold the rest. I'm already past break even and i still have 20k in games in my basement. Any time I can buy something, mess with it for years then sell it for more than i'm into it, i'll do it, my wife knows i'm frugal and that this car is the only place i lose money and not that much because the MM
suspension was a collective of gifts from the past decade.
I wish i could do it with foxes but i can't quite figure out the market.
