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Originally Posted by GB SISSON

Ever since I put this thing together I have people (friends from So Cal, strangers on the street etc) come up and tell me almost the same thing over and over.... "Now all you need is a roof rack with a couple of longboards on it". I usually shrugg it off but sometimes they get my lecture on how wood wagons were not produced for the enjoyment of the surf crowd. Even if we did have surf on the Puget Sound, you still woulda found me laying on my back after school, not on a beach blanket, but under the hull of a fishing boat at the marine railway where I worked, grinding off years of copper bottom paint with a 36 grit disc on a 10" Black and Decker angle grinder with no mask or goggles. Anyhow I HAVE wanted a rood rack so I could take an old wood extension ladder to a couple of car shows this summer. A week ago I took the old gal (the woodie) off island and went to some old time junk, ok antique stores, but junky ones. Just before I had to race back to the ferry terminal I asked the owner of the third store if he had any roof racks for cars. ( I had pawed through his inventory indoors and out for a half hour). He said "Like Quick-N-Easy?" , "My favorite", I replied. He said they were in his garage behind the shop and he'd put them there in 1990, the year he started the shop. He produced a ricketey wood step ladder and we retrieved them from the garage's collar ties. He handed me the first bar and I asked how much. He said he was cleaning out so "how bout 25 bucks?" .... "So 50 bucks for both bars?", "No, 25 for the whole set". I couldn't believe my sudden streak of luck. And just in time for the ferry to boot. Since I don't have an extension ladder yet, the next morning I grabbed a couple of 10' 1x10s. Not sure if tens are considered long so gonna put a couple of 14's up there, take the sharpie and write Puget Sound Longboards. And no Hobie Stickers.