Alternatives to car dollies?

We just bought a house. It has a 2.5 car garage, with a 2 car door. I eventually want to add a pickemup and a Miata to the fleet (that is currently a single TSX) and I'd like to garage them all. So when my mom and brother were over, I tried to see if all 3 cars would fit in the garage, and I did it! I fit a 2007 4Runner, an Infiniti G37, and an 06 TSX in my garage. I could even pull 2 out. But I had a lot more room left over that I couldn't get to due to physics.

I think that dollies are eventually in my future, but I was wondering if there are any alternatives? I'd like to keep all three vehicles relatively accessable--meaning I don't want to spend 10 minutes jacking a car onto and off of dollies when I want to use it.

Has anyone ever made a track that you could drive the car onto and then slide it over? Bonus points if you could move one of the tracks easily so that it would work for different wheelbases (the Miata and truck would switch spots between winter and summer).

Otherwise, any tips for using dollies?

Tip: the harbor freight dollies have incredibly E36 M3ty casters.

This sorta fits your requirememts:

kwiklift

Drive on/drive off. Has casters so that you can move it about the garage. I have one and find it quite useful, especially in lieu of a full on 2post or 4post lift in a garage w/ 8 foot ceilings. Drawback is that it will be longer than your average car, so there is that.

Dollies, unless the higher $ ones, are a pain. Hard to move a car around on cast iron wheels. Have a set of Horrible Fright ones in the shop for the TVR. The kwiklift is easier to move with a car on it than a car on dollies.

Dusterbd13 wrote: Tip: the harbor freight dollies have incredibly E36 M3ty casters.

I would only recommend the HF versions for cars under 2500 lbs. I have them on my 64 Corvair and I can easily move the front around, but the rear takes a lot fiddling and shoving to get the casters to move around (the Corvair is around 2500 lbs and around a 40/60 distribution). If I pulled the drivetrain, I am sure they would be just fine.

My dad had a set of those dollies for his sailboat. He replaced the wheels with some high quality castors and it was much more better.

If you're going to move the car a lot on dollies spring for a set of real go-jaks. Mine stayed out in the rain, got dropped regularly and still worked far longer than any off brand I tried. With some practice you could probably get by with just a pair under the drive wheels if you didn't mind a little extra work moving the car around.

http://www.harborfreight.com/1250-lb-capacity-vehicle-positioning-wheel-dolly-61917.html

Are you thinking about these? I have a set and they work great. A clean and level floor is crucial and you won't want to be getting that "first in" car out real often but to turn and slide a car for storage? Very good.

For a light car I found that the HF furniture moving dollies worked as well as their higher priced car dollies. I put my 2300lb race car in a set of 4 of them in the winter so that I can move it closer to the wall and have more room between that car and the other one that shares the garage. I can also move it into the middle of the garage with the other car outside if I want to work on it.

Several companies make car dollies that jack the tire up off the ground, eliminating the need for a floor jack.