Patent ID: 7730758

Claim:
An apparatus for straightening vehicular structure, the apparatus comprising: a U-shaped main frame, the main frame having a vehicle-receiving open end, a vehicle-stopping closed end, laterally-opposed vehicular guide portions, and a plurality of main frame support posts for elevating the main frame above a support surface substantially parallel thereto, the closed end and guide portions defining a peripheral main frame length, the main frame length defining a frame width and frame depth, the frame width and frame depth for receiving a vehicular body in a fixed vehicle position intermediate the guide portions adjacent the closed end in superior adjacency to the support surface such that the guide portions and closed end corral the vehicular body in spaced relation thereto, the main frame length comprising vertically and axially paired main frame apertures, the main frame apertures being horizontally spaced along the main frame length; an L-shaped, repositionable tower assembly, the tower assembly comprising a horizontal base section, a vertical upright section, and tension applying means for applying tension to the vehicular body, the base section having a base section length, the base section length having vertically oriented, horizontally spaced base apertures, the base section being receivable intermediate the main frame and the support surface inferior to the main frame apertures such that the base section length extends toward the vehicular body; and an axial pin member, the pin member being receivable by a select set of apertures selected from a pair of the main frame apertures along the main frame length and a base aperture from the base section length, the pin member thus for attaching the tower assembly to the main frame at a select frame location along the main frame length, the tension applying means for applying tension to a select vehicular structure adjacent the select frame location, applied tension from the tension applying means for displacing the select vehicular structure relative to the fixed vehicle position, the apparatus thus for straightening vehicular structure.