Taken in Burkina Fasso on a trip there a year or two ago...... it is worth noting that the vehicle was doing about 100km an hour on the road between two towns.......

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Another distant memory - in the mid sixties in Roma, I spotted a Fiat 600, mum, dad, baby and much of their worldly goods inside, and on the roofrack a full size cot, folded flat, topped by a large dog kennel - complete with a large dog.

John

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Funny thread, strangely enough i saw something fitting to post here on the way to work this morning, unfortunatly i wasnt able to get a pic as i was driving.

It it was a older 4wd, not sure what type but would have been early 90s model(maybe a pajero or jackaroo?), it had 2 rolls of carpet at either end of end of the roof with a few planks and tresells, as well as a bunch of other wood over the top, this was all tied down to the sunvisor at the front and not sure what at the back... i didnt want to get to close to check it out further, you could see the roof bowing in where the carpet rolls were sitting!!

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Not quite a roof rack story, but in the early 1970's had a rusted VW type 3 to dump at tip. So put it on my dad's small rusty 6X4 box trailer by jacking it up with a trolley jack bit at a time plank across blocks under car, till we got it high enough to push a box trailer under. Should never have doneit, but we got it to where we wanted it to go.

its cheaper than bunjee straps!!

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I knew a lady who drove from Sydney to Melbourne with a two seater couch, and a bed plus a few other things that I can not remeber, plus the inside of the car was full also, but no roof racks - straight on the roof. She travelled at between 50 and 70 km/hr for the trip. I have a photo some where but is on film.

I used to have a 1957 Series 1 LWB with cab and well-back. The previous owner was a builder and he had used 1" galv water pipes to make a rack at the back and one on the front bumper so he could cart lengths of wood and the like.

The spread at the back was exactly wide enough to take my 12' tinny - upside down - bow on the roof of the cab...

Worked well and certainly generated a lot of strange looks.

i was driving home along henry lawson drive one day when i saw a car pulled over by the cops......

the car was a small sedan.......with a wardrobe sandwiched between two matresses on the roof......
and tied through the open windows looped through the interior of the vehicle...........no.....there were no roof racks or anything else....

the drivers were either pakistani or indian....or similar.....



the cops were leaning over the roof of the patrol car and scratching their heads.......
i could almost imagine what would have been running through their minds.....




when i passed through there again later that night.....the two matresses and wardrobe were sitting on the side of the road......
and continued to do so for the next few days.......

Couldn't count the number of times I've seen the mattress tied on the roof with string - no roofracks. A couple of times I've seen mattress on the roof with no roofrack and no string, just a keen bloke, half out of the window, steering with one hand and holding on for dear life iwth the other.

At 110Kmh.

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One of my father's weirdest moments as president of the Bach Society was convincing a well-known concert pianist (of her day) that he would not try to find a society member with the same size volkswagon as her so that she could move her grand piano. She figured that if they drove carefully at the same speed they could put the piano across the top of the two cars.

I was only 10 at the time but I am pretty sure she was a little "eccentric".


When you see those photos from overseas you remember just how soft and conservative we westerners have become. But I wouldn't swap.

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