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Roof carrying capacity/Another reason I love this car! (photos) 200 1981

posted by  jim e on  Wed Apr 21 11:26 CST 2004
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I live near Seattle, and Boeing has a surplus store where they sell unneeded items. They also have a 'free wood' yard. Since I'm also a woodworker, occasionaly I drive by to see what wood is available. A few weeks ago, I hit the jackpot! There happened to be some sheets of plywood - but not ordinary plywood. This was 1 1/8" thick, and 4'x10', not the normal 4'x8'. I don't know what Boeing used that for. Other people were taking some, but I didn't have my roof racks on the car, and it wouldn't fit inside my wagon. So I had to drive home to get the racks, hoping there would be some left when I returned. Well, there was, and I decided to take three sheets. I had to get someone to help me load them, because they were HEAVY. I was somewhat concerned that I might overload the rain gutters, but went ahead anyway. Here's how the car looked when loaded.


I was curious as to how much each sheet weighed, so when I unloaded them, I balanced one on my bathroom scale. 151 pounds! So my brick was carring 453 pounds on the roof rack. Pretty amazing. What a great car - such versatility. I love it.
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Jim Egelston - Seattle - '81 245DL, '85 244GL, '94 945T, '89 535i, '74 R90S








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    Roof carrying capacity/Another reason I love this car! (photos) 200 1981

    posted by  oty on  Wed Apr 21 13:37 CST 2004
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    I used to lie to my wife so she wouldn't know I was going the the Boeing store.
    What a greatplace to spend a morning. To bad they don't have volvo parts there.








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      Roof carrying capacity/Another reason I love this car! (photos) 200 1981

      posted by  anderssj on  Thu Apr 22 15:45 CST 2004
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      I used to go there once in while when stationed at Boeing Field in the early 80s (AF Flight Test)--some amazing stuff would show up sometimes. Still have some surplus heatshield material protecting the starter on my old 914.

      Regards,

      Steve A-








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    What kind of Roof Racks do you have? NMI 200 1981

    posted by  Toddlie on  Wed Apr 21 13:21 CST 2004
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      What kind of Roof Racks do you have? NMI 200 1981

      posted by  jim e on  Wed Apr 21 16:26 CST 2004
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      Yakima brand racks, with the 1A style gutter mounts. They clamp on very securely. I'm not sure which would fail first, the rain gutters on the car or the rack mounts.
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      Jim Egelston - Seattle - '81 245DL, '85 244GL, '94 945T, '89 535i, '74 R90S








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    Roof carrying capacity/Another reason I love this car! (photos) 200 1981

    uid 18083's pic
    posted by  lucid on  Wed Apr 21 11:33 CST 2004
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    Years ago I put 17 sheets of wood-grained hard board (masonite)
    4'x8' panels on my 140 roof racks. I believe they were about 60 lb each.
    If so, that would be 1,030 lb.

    I never even gave it a thought till the tires began to bulge. Don't recall if I stopped for air, but there were no problems.
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    Bruce Young
    '93 940-NA (current) — 240s (one V8) — 140s — 122s — since '63.







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