Roof box?

Anyone have a box on your bus?

I've used the luggage rack area over the cab several times with a bungee cargo net (late westy roof) but I find it's only useable for bulky stuff, not secure and whatever is up there gets wet when it rains.

I know you can get a bag type thing that fits there but I thought I'd do something a bit more retro and in keeping with the age of the bus, so I managed to locate an old aluminium suitcase that fits the dimensions pretty well. I made up some leather straps to hold it in place.

What do you think?

 

very cool, bet it still isnt waterproof though!!

 

And now you will be 5mph slower but i like it's shiny

 

Probably not 100% but better than just a bungee rope

 

Speed is overrated anyway

..and shiny is always good. Could even polish it up like an airstream if I get bored.

 

I think you must be packing too much.

 

so what's going in the shiny box

 

I've one of those on my rack:

http://nlavw.com/roof/70-westfalia-dry-roof-bag.html


(well actually I've the early model for the rear rack but you get the idea...)
It hasn't fault me yet.

Edit: Sorry read too fast. Didn't see the "something more reto" bit.

 

Just got my camping chairs in there at the moment, but the idea is to maybe use it for wet/sandy stuff so that doesn't need to come inside the bus and get everything else mucky.