30" Horizontal	36" Horizontal	42" Horizontal	48" Horizontal
Side Tilt Level	36" Wedge	48" Wedge	60" Wedge
72" Wedge	Side Tilt Wedge	Indoor Display	Rock Surround
Mini Super	Motorcycle Stand	Rotating Displays	Custom Displays

Our Story

Back in the 70’s a friend of mine, Frank, had a company named Haulmore Manufacturing and was building flatbed, stake bed, and utility truck bodies for the local dealers of Nissan, Toyota, Ford, and Chevy small trucks.  In addition he was taking the small trucks and doing body lifts and putting large tires on them.  He would put cloth seats, light bars, grill guards, etc. on them and do fancy paint jobs on them with stripes and designs.  Kearny Mesa Toyota was one of his customers whom he customized two trucks for every week.  Being located right off of Hwy 163 they had good exposure to the traffic.  After the highway department built a wall along the side of the freeway you could no longer see them as well.  One of the employees asked Frank if he could build a stand, rack, or platform of some kind to raise the truck up so you could see them from the freeway.  After building a platform and setting it up, for the next four weeks the customer said, “I drove down the freeway and you can really see the truck on the stand.  A customer came in and said he saw the truck from the road.  A customer saw it, came in and bought it off the rack.  On the fourth week he said, “You should be building these racks for everyone.”  Frank then took a couple of photos of the rack and went to his other customers and showing them the photos said, “Keep two of my trucks on your lot and I will loan you one of these platforms.”  Toyota of El Cajon said, “Give me four and I will keep eight of your trucks on our lot.”  After going to all of his customers and setting up the platforms Frank thought that was everyone. 

Then one day on early 1980 I walked into Frank’s company to see him and as I did the phone rang and the secretary answered and put the person on hold and told me to wait, she would be right back.  She returned and said no one was there and the person on the phone wanted to know about the vehicle stands.  I did not know all about them but told her I would talk to him.  It was someone from Intermountain Volkswagen in Salt Lake City, UT.  He said he had seen our vehicle stand while in San Diego and wanted some information about them.  I talked to him about how they worked and he said he wanted one so I got his name, address, and phone number.  When Frank returned I told him I had talked to a person that had called in and he wanted one of the car stands handing him the note.  Frank said, “I’ll pay you for that”, and I said, “Give me the phone.”

At first it was slow as no one knew what I was talking about when I called them and told them what we had that would help them make more sales and I would mail them a couple of photographs.  One dealer in Southern California said he liked them but was not sure and after talking for a few minutes four or five times over a few days I told him I would bring two of them up and set them up on his lot for thirty days.  After thirty days he could tell me, get them out of here or pay me for them.  

Thirty days later I gave him a call and he said, “I have good news and bad news.  We want these two and two more just like them.”  I said, “OK, what’s the bad news?”, and he asked, “Can we do the same thing with four of them at the new Mitsubishi store.  I know they want them, they just want thirty days to pay.”  I said, “Sure, what’s the bad news?”  

Over the years I have had hundreds of customers buy one to try the vehicle platform out and then buy more.  The Chrysler Zone Office in Houston, TX bought five of the vehicle display platforms and put them out at car washes.  Having good luck with them they then ordered seventy more and we shipped them to various dealers in their zone, some got one, and some two, three, and some four.

One day I got a call from someone in New York that said he saw one of our platforms in San Francisco, CA on his way through and wanted to know if we could ship it to Guam.  I said we could and have since shipped them quite a few.

We have shipped our car stands all over the world since then.  

Lomas Ford in Mexico City was one of our first out of the country customers for our vehicle display racks. Charlie Auto Sales in Puerto Rico is another good customer buying multiple car racks from us.  

Auto Centro in El Salvador purchased a rotating vehicle display from us and liked it so well they bought five more.  

Numerous other companies have purchased one rotating display from us and then placed additional orders for more rotating displays from us.

Automotive Promotional Products is the original manufacturer of vehicle display platforms and builds the best car racks for cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs. We have been building car stands years longer than any other company selling car display platforms.  We use tubing for all legs and braces whereas others use angle iron.

Not only do we make the models shown, but custom vehicle ramps to fit your own needs and usage.
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