David Terry's Journal

I just finished replacing the beat up trunk lid on my 76B. The replacement lid came with a nice luggage rack that I intended to install once the lid was repainted and in place. I quickly realized that I had failed to take into account the condition of the rack. Although the metal was in good shape, the screw holes were all stripped out and largely out of round on the rear horizontal member. After several trips to Ace Hardware to find a variety of different size SS screws, I had an epiphany: instead of screwing the cross members directly to the horizontal member, why not secure them to a substrate INSIDE the cross member. The next question is obvious: what am I going to use? Having some left over shelf standards from a recent woodworking project, I noticed that the screw holes for the standards lined up perfect with the screw holes for the cross member. A few snips with the aviation shears to cut them to length and the rack was reassembled and tight as a drum. Fifteen minutes later and the rack was one the car. Nice rack, eh?