Gary it is beautiful, well engineered, and well thought out
like all your work. Two Questions:

1) If you choose to bolt the rack to the roof can you remove
it without unbolting?

2) How about a full length rack for us non-skylight guys?

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:58:10 -0700
>From: Gary Lee <gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET>
>Subject: Westfalia roof rack
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>Folks,
>I've come up with a new type of roof rack system for our
westfalias.
>It attaches to both the pop top and it has gutter mounts.
You can use
>either mount, or both for maximum strength.
>The advantage to this is that you have the strength of a
rain gutter rack
>but can still raise the pop top without removing the rack.
>I've also made a safari basket carrier fitted to the racks
and sized
>specifically for the westfalia.
>I could also make a version for non-westfalia vanagons.
>
>I originally developed this rack because I had concerns
about putting
>anything more than the lightest of loads on the fiberglass
pop top.
>
>Take a look here and tell me what you think
>http://www.telusplanet.net/public/gary2a/rack/roof/roofrack.
htm
>
>Thanks
>Gary Lee