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.comHave 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 <Admin: Link moved to the 'link' area.>
Looks like it is indeed baked, now.-- StarChaser, Sep 11 2002 random, halfbakery