I don't think the roofrack had a brand as such. There were quite a few of that basic design around in Australia in the late 70s and early 80s. The front legs came down to the side-steps with four bolts each side taking advantage of the strength of those gussets that come off the chassis rails there (with the mid-point of those legs further braced using 2 bolts each side from the windscreen hinges). At the rear, the legs there weren't so firmly fixed. They rested on short pieces of thick angle-iron cantilevered off the chassis rails (and I used to watch them wobble in my rear-vision mirrors).
As for the box. I made that from marine-ply and we used to use that to store all our sleeping bags and clothes because it was perfectly weatherproof.
But about 10 years or so ago I decided it was all rather heavy so I dumped the lot (including the bullbar). I cut it all up for garden stakes, other projects, or just to go to the rubbish tip.
I even dumped the air conditioning once I saw the benefits of remaining "light" and realised that this country (ie. New Zealand now) doesn't really get hot enough on a regular basis to warrant it (and dumped all my rear seating too when our kids got so large that sitting in the back was really too awkward).
PS. That photo was a lot earlier than 2008. (It would have been taken on my old Nikon F3 camera and in 2008 I would have converted it to digital form by shining the image on screen and photographing that with a digital camera.)
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