Sports Equipment on TVRs

[Griffithy]

Sorry for this unusual topic. Has anybody out there found satisfiing solutions for carring sports equipment like skis (or surfing-boards) on TVRs. Does anybody know suppliers? Sadly winter comes soon, so I would like making the best out of it. Anyway, this shouldn`t keep you away from enjoying top-down motoring. Thanks, Martin

[JNA]

Not that unusual I have looked round and round for a surf board carrier without any luck, the cheapest thing I found was a 1989 Fiat Panda !!!!£100 and 10,000 miles of happy motering without anything going wrong now why did I buy that Chim ??????

[jon h]

I regularly fit a 9 foot long sail bag in my Griff... Just chuck it in with the roof down and get the passenger to hold on to it, or stap it in with the seat belt if there is no passenger. I'm sure that it would work with a board, but I will conceed that you do have to gamble on it not raining!

[ATG]

Optimistic … I’d think your only chance is to try and attach something to the roof panel, but it’s not very long front to back, so you’re going to have difficulty stopping the rack from twisting. How about four strips of webbing, two running front to back and two running side to side? Join them inside the car, probably with tensioners on the roof too. If you could still fit the roof panel in without knackering its edges or the rubber seals at the top of the windows, you might be able to hacksaw a ski carrier into fitting on top. Still have to work out how the hell you’re going to drive a Griff up an icy mountain road. Take some photos if you succeed!

[paul]

I thought about this one too - took the Chimp to Switzerland with skis & board in the passenger footwell and the seat reclined fully. When I was there, I saw a couple of Boxsters with a funky boot-attacked ski rack that put the skis at an angle, up and over the roof (probably about 35 degrees with the backs of the skis about an inch above the leading edge of the boot). On one car, the rack was a Thule rack that seemed to attach rather like a bike rack (6 tensioned webbing straps). Not sure if the boot is well enough attached on a TVR - maybe a solution is to have some sort of convertible luggage rack permanently attached to the boot with a series of attachments dependent on need (or is that a little bit too "MG"?)

[Griffithy]

Thanks for all the respond! What have I learned? Put girl-friend in the boot, get another nice girl to hug all stuff at passenger-side, pray for no rain, no snow, so eventually leave the TVR in the garage. Then buy a Boxster, but how to hell can I manage, fixing it all on top of the Panda?