A Tire Rack From The Tire Rack
By Rick Reimundez
If you’re too lazy to break out your welder and build one yourself, Tire Rack now sells a rack perfect for storing your off-season or track wheels and tires when you’re not using ‘em. It features of a backing plate that attaches to your wall studs at whatever height works for you, then the rack itself attaches to that. The width is adjustable all the way up to 66 inches wide so you can use it for wide street performance tires in winter and adjust them a bit narrower for your snow tires — if you’re in the snow belt (like me).
It’s load capacity is 400 pounds, and it costs $130 — not much to get those tires off the floor and out of the way.
Racedeck offers a rack similar in design that flips up and out of the way, but the width is fixed and it costs $350 for a 48” model and $420 for a 64” model. I’d rather have the adjustable width than the flip up feature, since mine would always have tires stored there at any given time.
Tire Rack [The Tire Rack]
Alternative Tire Racks (next to last row) [RaceDeck]
October 30th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I know a guy who needs this as a Christmas present. Maybe then I can convince him to get his spare tires out of my !@$% garage.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:04 am
It does look like a great welding project too.