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- From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
- Subject: Re: HOW TO AVOID HITTING THE WALL IN GARAGE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.220747.15373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:07:47 GMT
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- In article <19NOV199210181999@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.092443.11468@scott.skidmore.edu>, jreiser@scott.skidmore.edu (Jason Reiser... Asleep) writes...
- >>ehsan@attila.weitek.COM (Ehsan Kalami) writes:
- >>>
- >>> hi, I am sure a lot of people have a similar problem. Where can one buy
- >>> blocks of cement/concrete so that we know how far to drive a car into
- >>> garage. similar to one found in parking lots?
- >>> thanks.
- >>
- >>I don't know where to get the real McCoy, but for something that's
- >>probably a lot less expensive, consider a "Park Block". It's a
- >>plastic/rubber block that you stick to the garage floor and it stops
- >>the car as you roll in. Available from Mid America Designs (Corvette
- >>place) for only $12.95 at 800-637-5533.
- >>
- >>Of course, you could always construct something.... perhaps some
- >>wooden beams?
- >
- >Or you could simply suspend a tennis ball with a string from the ceiling
- >so that it touches the windshield when you're in far enough.
- >
- my wife forced me to set up this system above our bed! ;)
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