Before I started building mine, I put a bit of thought into the design...
I looked at all of the available racks as well as some of the homebuilts and started making sketches of what I thought would look good and more importantly, fulfill my needs....
I needed sumthin strong enough for my whole family to walk on, but still be light enough to remove easily...
I wanted the
look of a full rack, but with a large opening and unrestricted view from the sunroof...
I also wanted minimal protection for the lights without blocking the actual beams...
After kicking it around in my head for a while, this was my professional paint rendering of the final design
Picked up a set of mounts and started off by making a base platform and fitted it to the rig to make sure everything was level...
Drove it around like that for a few days to test for wind noise, made some adjustments, then pulled it and started adding the rest of the pieces...
Did a little work each day and before I knew it, I had sumthin pretty decent going on
My only regret was not powder coating it
Since it was a very low budget build (most of the metal was leftover stuff behind my shop), I just couldn't see spending hundreds of dollars on powder coating at the time
Decided to go the rattle can route instead and even though it seems to be holding up decently, I'm beginning to see a few rust spots
