Thule Observation Deck (Drunk Deck)
dukevonDANK
Wagonist
I attend the Rolex 24 in Daytona and the 12 hours at Sebring.
Spectating is only half of the experience.
Being ridicules, sneaking in the pits and sitting in parked race cars, drinking heavily, and looking at everyone else's cars is the other half.
[Sebring is the real reason for this idea, if you've been, you understand...it's insane. It's like everyone brings a bunch of crap that is funny, and drives it around on their cars.
In years past, we had a sofa on the roof of a liften jeep on 37" tires...they made us take it down after the second year, when someone spray painted a huge black veiny....well you get the idea...I told you it is ridicules. By the way, we fit almost 13 people on that jeep....but that was ok, just no huge veiny wangs. This is a family event....right....]
So a few months ago, I got a thule rack and fairing and decided, I needed to put a deck up there for my viewing and spewing pleasure, after all the race is nearing. So i got a 4 twelve foot lengths of 5/4x6" PT cut them in half and, well you will see. It's a full on deck.
I'll post pictures as soon as I figure out exactly how to do that.
This is ridicules, and sweet at the same time.
(I'm not sure of the load rating for these babies, but I have a second set of bars just for the heck of it)
So what do you all think?
Spectating is only half of the experience.
Being ridicules, sneaking in the pits and sitting in parked race cars, drinking heavily, and looking at everyone else's cars is the other half.
[Sebring is the real reason for this idea, if you've been, you understand...it's insane. It's like everyone brings a bunch of crap that is funny, and drives it around on their cars.
In years past, we had a sofa on the roof of a liften jeep on 37" tires...they made us take it down after the second year, when someone spray painted a huge black veiny....well you get the idea...I told you it is ridicules. By the way, we fit almost 13 people on that jeep....but that was ok, just no huge veiny wangs. This is a family event....right....]
So a few months ago, I got a thule rack and fairing and decided, I needed to put a deck up there for my viewing and spewing pleasure, after all the race is nearing. So i got a 4 twelve foot lengths of 5/4x6" PT cut them in half and, well you will see. It's a full on deck.
I'll post pictures as soon as I figure out exactly how to do that.
This is ridicules, and sweet at the same time.
(I'm not sure of the load rating for these babies, but I have a second set of bars just for the heck of it)
So what do you all think?
Comments
If so then sounds like a neat idea for a couple of people to sit/stand and watch events.
Honda sheet metal is basically a foil, i am 99.99% sure it will dent, or worse..
Agreed.
I can't tell you how badly I want a roof top tent for my car. Unless you reinforce it somehow, you'd be lucky to get one person up there without it cratering.
Though I would love to see you reinforce it somehow and do it
It seems stable, and I had my buddy keep a close eye on the channels, and he said it looks surprisingly stable.
I know I should use a truck, but ridicules is the name of the game.
Plus, it looks sweet.
I know I have been warned. And I agree this could have some really bad outcomes. it might. If it dents, can always fix it. If it caves in, yea that'll be bad. But for now I'm only gonna rock it one person at a time.
I like the idea of reinforcement. The tent idea is another reason I thought about this, saw a comanche in JP magazine with one, got excited.
Right now, technology has got me down, i'll post em up as soon as I can figure out how to use this new fangled macbook.
the beginning
the rack
I've got one more rail, I've just got to remove the fairing.
Did another test, seems fine with me on it. But it's still not finished. I'll post more when I get there.
I can't wait to see pics of people on it!
This is it...
Exactly what I was pondering.
Maybe I will flip the u-bolts, add threaded rod couplings to the u bolts threads and some threaded rod hanging a length of kendorf (unistrut). I can make it as high or as low as I want by trimming the threaded rod. Then angle bracket the strut together at the ends. It's like a reverse trapeze.
Or I could drink responsibly.
me and iboyma drinking responsibly
BTW: we had three up there, no van damage, standing room only
When you say ridicules do you mean "ridicules" or "ridiculous"? It makes my brain itch