Dave, I kept it simple and bought this based on a post on the other forum that some of the coupe guys were using it as their hood prop. It's super heavy duty, comes with rubber caps on both ends, and collapses down to a very small footprint when fully collapsed, so doesn't take up a lot of room. Been working well for me and easy to store.

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Mark