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Vehicle finish protection apparatus is disclosed which is adapted for temporary installation on a vehicle when the vehicle is parked closely adjacent another vehicle and is therefore susceptible to finish damage as a result of the edge of a door of the adjacent vehicle impacting against the side of the vehicle to be protected. The vehicle finish protection apparatus includes unitary first and second elongated sections, triangular in cross sections joined by a living hinge such that the first and second elongated sections are normally aligned in an operational configuration, but may be folded together at the hinge to effect a compact storage configuration. The means for securing a hinge are on separate faces of the sections so that one section can be swung up and away and back on itself with one hand for easy use in tight spaces. Each of the first and second elongated sections includes magnets distributed along its length to facilitate removably affixing the apparatus to the side of a vehicle by magnetic attraction. Alternatively, the magnets may comprise a plurality of discrete spaced-apart units or a continuous flexible strip of magnetic material. An anti-theft element is fixed to one of the elongated sections and includes an outwardly extending hook portion adapted to engage a vehicle door edge to be retained thereby when the vehicle door is closed. A double bight with a break-away bight for adaption to an dfrom 2-door to 4-door use is provided. The elongated sections are each fabricated from a resilient, flexible closed cell material, such as polyethylene, urethane, rubber foam, EDPM foam and neoprene foam characterized by densities of 1.5 to 5.0 p.c.f. and a water absorption value of less than 1%, and preferably the hinge is also fabricated from the same material and in such a manner that the elongated sections and the joining hinge are unitary.
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