Building a storage box for a Manxter.

Tom-Kathleen · Post by **Tom-Kathleen** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:44 am

It seems like the Manxter site has been a little short on technical items lately, so I thought I would add something. Go to this link on the Australian Manx Club site, http://www.manxgallery.org/gallery/album254 and you can see how we built a storage box. We used this on our Hot Rod Power Tour trip. We were able to store clothes, spare parts, tools and even some food and drinks for our 12 days on the road. If you have any other questions after looking at the link, just ask. Thanks for looking. Tom

Gene-C · Post by **Gene-C** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:31 am

Tom Thanks for posting this, I first saw it on the aussie site and wanted to do something like this, when I get a buggy of course, which I think I'm close, but there was only like four pictures or something on it, and I couldn't see how everything was thought out. I can use the basic idea on a standard buggy, just with some changes here and there. thank you

Gene-C · Post by **Gene-C** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:01 am

Is it possible that this would fit a regular buggy? Also, where did you get the kit or plans?

allen pierce · Post by **allen pierce** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:45 am

Having read the posts of Tom & Kathleen for a while, I'm going to make a super wild guess and say they designed it themselves, no kit or plans. They just used their noggins. Very nice job, by the way.

Gene-C · Post by **Gene-C** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:06 am

I'm going to agree with you Allen, no plans, just hands!!! My only question is, did you use, like poster board paper, to cut patterns for the side boards around the roll bar? I think I forgot to say this in my original post, NICE JOB

Tom-Kathleen · Post by **Tom-Kathleen** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:26 am

Thanks! You are not going to believe this, but Kathleen came up with the original basic design. I just had to make it work. I had something much more complicated in mind. But, I am an aerospace manufacturing engineer, so I am used to complicated! One of the prime items in the design was to not make any extra holes in the car, so that when it was removed, you would never know it was ever in there. So far we have only used it for the Power Tour, but if we go to the Texas Manx Club event in June, it will be put to use again. We used cardboard to make the patterns to conform to the body contours. The trick was to leave enough room for the naugahyde to fit. As a side note, the box was not waterproof, we had to put everything that we didn't want to get wet in bags. But in the long run, it worked very well. You could make a smaller version to fit a Manx (or clone), but I don't know how you could do it without adding holes to mount it to the car. The box on the French Buggy in another post may be a better choice. Thanks again. Tom

Gene-C · Post by **Gene-C** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:13 am

Tom I agree that it probably will not be possible without adding new holes, but if I'm thinking of the same box your talking about, it is a drop in, camping glass box, the buggy I'm trying to purchase is a tube chassis, with a six point cage. The down struts in the rear will cause me to have to make a box similar to you and Kath's. That's why I was so interested in what you guys did!!!!!!!!!

thank you

newmanx59 · Post by **newmanx59** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:52 pm

I don't know how closely the rear seat area of a Manxter compares to an original Manx but, there is a company out there, producing fiberglass drop in storage boxes for a Manx style buggy. Their website is copywrited

and wouldn't allow me to paste in the info or a picture so I chose not to supply their link to advertise for them. It can easily be found with a search.

Building a storage box for a Manxter.

Building a storage box for a Manxter.

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