{"id":14648,"date":"2022-10-02T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=14648"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:00:01","slug":"roof-rack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=14648","title":{"rendered":"4 Bar roof rack."},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Our reasoning and expectations behind this<em>.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>In the long term, we are planning to put a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=6061\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">custom-built pop-top<\/span><\/a> on the van, (but that relies on my welding skills improving), so as there are quite a few things <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">(s<em>ee <\/em><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=1304\"><em>roof rack attachments<\/em><\/a><em>) <\/em><\/span>we need to attach or put up there, the roof rack will have to do for now.<br \/>\nWhen the pop-top roof is finally made, it is hoped to incorporate the currently attached items into or on the new roof.<\/p>\n<h4><em>The original roof rack<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"> (just 2 bars)<\/span>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2241\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b.jpg 2241w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-150x76.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-768x389.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02b-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4>The current 4 bar roof rack,<em> <span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">(with the <a style=\"color: #99ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=1311\">Wind-out awning<\/a>, &amp; <a style=\"color: #99ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=1315\">Pipe storage box<\/a> attached).<\/span><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a.jpg 3648w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_2012a-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Our current roof rack.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">(<em><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">with all the<\/span> completed&nbsp; <\/em><a style=\"color: #99ccff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=1304\">attachments<\/a> fitted, more to follow soon).<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/roof-rack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/roof-rack.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/roof-rack-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/roof-rack-150x63.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">More info and Photos and a full write-up to follow soon.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6>&nbsp;In-use <em>reviews.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6>Our conclusions.<\/h6>\n<h6><em>Pros.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Cons.<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6>Other related or affected parts.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>See &nbsp; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=1304\"><em>Roof rack attachments.<\/em><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our reasoning and expectations behind this. In the long term, we are planning to put a custom-built pop-top on the van, (but that relies on my welding skills improving), so as there are quite a few things (see roof rack attachments) we need to attach or put up there, the roof rack will have to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/?page_id=14648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 Bar roof rack.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5670,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14648\/revisions\/20787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebeast.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}