Vehicle: Car: Storage
roof-rack boat   (+5, -1)  [vote for, against]
A streamlined roof-rack luggage box that's also a boat

Everyone who goes camping seems to have a streamlined roof rack luggage box to hold their tent, sleeping bags cooking gear and so on. They look a bit like boats, so why not make these things truly boat-shaped so that they can be used as beach boats? Something like this should be better and more fun than one of those silly inflatabl
-- gav, Jul 06 2000

(?) Wildtop's link as a link. http://www.wildtop.com
Have a fun. [StarChaser, Sep 11 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

sure! then grab an oar, pull up next to the river, and just flip your SUV right over into the water! inversion=amphibiousness! hahahaha...
-- absterge, Aug 11 2000


Like SUV's need any help flipping over...

On the show 'Junkyard Wars' <Apparently named 'Scrapheap' in the UK where it came from> one of the things was to make an amphibious vehicle, and the Navy team used the fiberglass top off a conversion van...
-- StarChaser, Aug 12 2000


yeah its called scrapheap challenge and if I remember correctly the brits beat u yanks, on the SUV any one who drives one of those things desrves to turn them over into the river wouldnt this be helping them?
-- lost not found, Jan 27 2001


Hmm. Not a bad idea. Back in the 1970s there was a roof-rack boat on the market sold through small garages for around £90. Don't know if it was also a luggage box...
-- mboxwell, Mar 24 2001


Here is a real roof top box and a boat combination manufactured in Toronto, Ont. Canada Visit the site <LInk> Have a fun!
-- wildtop, Sep 10 2002


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Looks like it is indeed baked, now.
-- StarChaser, Sep 11 2002



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