On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, A.D.Smith wrote:
> Many ideas there, the one closest to my own came from Matt Liggett
> <mliggett@seven.ucs.indiana.edu> who suggests bolting a wire wheel
> hub to the boot lid and putting a rack over the top so you can still
> use the rack. I think the rack would be so high in that case that I'd
> never be able to see out the back.
>
> The hub-on-bootlid idea is one that I've been mulling over for a while,
> but not having a spare bootlid to mangle stopped me trying it. I asked
> a guy in Moss about it once and he told me that the bootlid wouldn't
> take the weight.
> Now if I can just find a way to fix the wheel to the boot and carry a
> bike or two at the same time I can go offroad biking in Scotland this winter.
There used to be a thing called (in the US) a continental kit.
Basically, you'd extend the bumper brackets 8 inches or so, and nestle
the wheel between the bumper and the body in the position it had on a T
series MG. I think it would look pretty nice on a Spridget. At least it
would be practical, and you could still have a boot-mounted luggage
rack. The bikes might be OTT, however.
Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910
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