Roof rack load brings slight aero penalty

[Frank Lee]

Needs to draft horse trailers.

[Natalya]

Is this some kind of Mr. Bean contraption?

[jakobnev]

It needs to draft this:

[Fingie]

oh man yes, that episode was funny

[elhigh]

It's from the Motorhome Challenge, episode 15:4

[freebeard]

Nice bug.

Someone is gently mocking the roof rack craze. I'm a Top Gear fan too but the first thing I thought of was Shakey Jake's 'Worst of show" car from the 1980s.


http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/shakey-jake-man-or-myth.382154/

This was before he added the '59 Cadillac tail fins.

[ChopStix]

my share is a little more conservative!

[freebeard]

It's going to be hard to top Frank Lee's.

But here's a thesamba thread were they are counting the Jim Dandy roof racks in existence, and calling out the imposters. Real:


very high quality reproduction, notice the drip rail fittings:


Imposter; cleaner, with wood slats.

[MobilOne]

Notice that the green Bug has two coolers that are relatively the same color as the car. The owner has style!

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Roof rack load brings slight aero penalty

It's not the Cd, it's the CG!