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A plastic, custom fit sheet goes over your car. Alluminum poles raise the sheet away from the car 3 feet in all directions. Next, a electrical heating unit blows enough warm air into the 'tent' to allow for winter/bad weather repairs. Tail pipe extension allows for the fumes to escape.
Deluxe model
can be found at most rental stores.
Portable garages
http://www.instantshelters.com/ Some systems are quite easy to transport. Used by a lot of soccer playing families. [hollajam, Oct 21 2004]
Inflatable buildings
http://www.lindstrand.co.uk/pr12.htm Personally I like this one best. [hollajam, Oct 21 2004]
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hook electricity into nearby lamp-post for free power. |
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Baked - you pass a huge mockup on I-95 in Connecticut. (Slightly different construction, I will concede, but the essence is the same - plastic sheet held up by aluminum poles, optional heating units.) |
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Maybe 3/4 baked. I want something cheap and designed for impromtu car repairs. My question: What would make it so that a lot of people would consider buying it? |
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*Portability - stash in trunk w/out taking up the whole trunk
*Ease of use - make it quick and easy to assemble/disassemble
*Affordability - under $50 (US) and you may get some customers |
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Remember, this would be an item bought and carried in case of emergencies, which people don't count on. If it's expensive, or a bother, people will justify not getting it by reasoning they've made it thus far without having one. |
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Perhaps a better strategy would be to target carmakers into making it standard equipment? |
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waugs: somewhere near Stamford, if my brain wasn't too befuddled on our last cross-country dash. Wherever it is, you really can't miss it - it's up level with the motorway and they shine spotlights on it at night. If I'm awake next time we go past, I'll write the name down. |
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My quite-loud-neighbor is from CT - did you by any chance send her here? |
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[Nick] has a chauffeur - wow. |
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po: My wife might take offense at being called that, but yes, half the time. |
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