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Thread: Weird tray on the back of roadsters

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    Weird tray on the back of roadsters

    This is something I've always wondered about and never been able to find the answer to. Today I believe I spied a Z4 roadster with something similar on the back, and I need answers! I can't bear not knowing any longer.
    What's with the weird tray on the boot of the MGs and things? Like so:


    My only guess is that it's trying to increase storage capacity on a car that's obviously lacking. Like a roof rack. But do people actually tie their bags to those things?!
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    I guess that is a ''yes'''.

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    Yup, that's a luggage rack...

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    I still find it's pretty weird. It looks strange dangling off the back. And I don't think they get used often enough to justify it.
    Guess they weren't so cryptic after all.
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    It's indeed a luggage rack as NSX says.

    I have also seen it being used with a suitcase fastened in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrer View Post
    I have also seen it being used with a suitcase fastened in it.
    That was used by you, because you are in fact, an old British man at your core.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitdy View Post
    That was used by you, because you are in fact, an old British man at your core.
    Well I already drive a British roadster (made in Japan) and say bonnet and lorry... so, may, maybe that's the thing.
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    Devoted anglophiles will insist that they make their holey, cramped, and unreliable roadster practical. They are largely a styling feature, though.
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    My car very practical and spacious. A medium-sized human fits in the boot, making it technically a 3-passenger vehicle, and then where am I going to fit my luggage?

    The luggage rack, best invention ever, I tell ya!

    (I'm not kidding with the human in the boot malarkey. I have photographic evidence)
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    Practical for many of the cars of that era where the boot was barely large enough for one suitcase for a week travelling. So the "boot rack" Commonly with ski fittings too !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13 View Post
    Devoted anglophiles will insist that they make their holey, cramped, and unreliable roadster practical. They are largely a styling feature, though.
    Haha, looks like a rumbler seat!

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