All,
I have what I consider to be the perfect lift for those whose garages are vertically challenged. It's made by Benwill (which is now, sadly, gone, but they were purchased by the much larger company Maxxon and thus this lift may still be available).
Instead of a scissors action, it uses a parallogram design. The advantage is that it allows unrestricted access from the midpoint, back. So I can back a car onto it, and remove the transmission.
I don't have any photos of my Contemporary on the lift, but I just used it the other day and it worked spectacularly well.
New cost was about $1800; I got mine used a few years ago for $1200. I feel like a fool for not having purchased it ten years earlier!
