No comment on the Corvettes, although my pref is LBC's... and old trucks....
Glad to hear of your experience, another data point... BTW, is the
Perfect Park anchored to the floor? Oh, and why not give the Singer a
litter box ( drip pan) ;-)
Marc
Mike Rambour wrote:
>
>
> Ok, now you are trying to expose a pattern of my UNsafeness :)
>
> I own a Perfect Park lift, yes the very same brand that a few years
> ago had a lift failure and dropped a Corvette onto another Corvette
> (no big loss to the car world in my opinion). Its the only lift
> failure I have seen on the net and although I am sure it happens more
> often than we would like to hear about its the only one I know of.
> You can see pics of it in the Backyard Buddy advert they ran a few
> months ago (maybe still are). The manufacturer sells the lift under
> many names and they were all fixed with a "kit" that consisted of a
> hand written note, a drill bit, a chunk of steel plate and a few
> bolts. Its fixed in the latest versions of course and this was only a
> issue on the older lifts (9-10 years ago).
>
> I would not and will not get rid of mine, I find it perfectly safe
> since I know what happened and look out for it even with their fix.
> If I were to buy a lift nowdays I would look at Bend-Pak over Backyard
> Buddy although BB is a great lift, the Bend-Pak one seems better
> engineered to me. Like I said, my Perfect Park is here to stay
> however and I regularly use it. My Dino is under it right now
> although a week ago I noticed my Singer leaked oil onto the Dino,
> might have to move it, not for safety but for oil on the paintwork.
>
> mike
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