Vancouver Sun March 28,2008

Stack it

Even if you have a completely standard three-metre-high garage, you, too, can have a Lift King car lift - essentially an extremely sturdy rack on wheels that allows you to store a vehicle or items such as snowblowers and lawnmowers above another vehicle.

"If you have more cars than you have room, you can stack cars on top of each other," says Ross Cameron, owner of Calgary-based Lift King. The solution is ideal for those storing a special vehicle over the winter, but he notes that more than 20 per cent of purchasers are spouses looking for a way to stash boxes and other garage messes so they can park inside.

Cameron has designed this system with 12 separate locks on the rails, so you can choose the top rack's position - and the hydraulic locking system has a mechanical backup. "There's never any chance of this thing coming down," he says.

The $3,000 Pro King model comes in black, red, blue and yellow, but Cameron notes that if you buy six, you can have any colour you want.

Pool it