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How the heck did you get the car up that high? I would assume forklift but got a different method?
My Dad has a bunch of super big industrial racks that are big enough to do this. Never thought of it before.

So cool!

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Yep forklifts work well. I should have never left my last one at the building I sold, I need one now!
 
Super-Cuda said:
Agree.

No cross braces between uprights .

You need to secure it much better than that..
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no floor plates either!

novel idea, and it's probably rated for it... but i'd put a little more safety and engineering behind the set up. like plates gusseted back to the rails with stop boxes for the wheels and tie offs for the body, mounted floor plates, and cross braces for sure.
 
The only thing that bothers me is the one on the top with wheels on small boards, my racks have full boards from one end to the other and I don't put anything on it with swivel wheels!
 
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I built a rack to store 4 cars in the place of two. I dug some old 5” square street light poles out of the dumpster at work to make the rack posts. Added cross bars made from rectangular tubing and then made runners the same width as the ones on my 4 post lift. It’s all bolted together and is very strong. Most people who come in the shop thinks it is a double lift or something. I tell em nope, I ain’t rich and it’s made from stuff that was scrap steel mostly. My 4 post lift can be moved on wheels, so that is how I put cars up top. I put the car to go up top under the rack, and then roll the lift up in front of it. I have marks on the floor where the 4 post lift needs to sit. I tie the lift posts and rack posts together with short 2 x 4’s and C clamps to prevent wiggle. Then roll the car under the rack onto the lift, raise it up, put the ramps between the rack and lift and then roll the car backwards onto the rack. Chock the wheels and I’m done. Then I move the lift back to where it usually sits. My 68 Roadrunner was the first car upstairs on the rack, and is still there. The black Cuda in the pic had just come down off top to be sold…..wish I’d kept it! That’s how I do it, and Hemi Joel on Moparts does something similar, but uses 2 rows of pallet racking with glue lam beams for runners to put the cars on. He uses a 4 post lift like I do to get them up top. The pallet racks are plenty strong enough to hold them.
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Yup used a forklift… 10,000 rated pallet racking bars welded end to end with a 6’ internal plug bar and 3/8” face plates… we drove out 8,000lbs forklift over the bars and they didn’t budge… so yeah it’s good and only cost $400 bucks… no need for a $4000 lift just to stack up some demon shells
 
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