Wood Rooftop Cargo Box

After looking at some of the crazy high prices of the Pelican and ROAM rooftop cargo boxes it got me thinking... is there any reason I couldn't build one out of ply? I've never seen a wooden cargo box and I'm just wondering if I'm missing something.

Any examples of people trying this successfully or otherwise?

 

My dad made his roof rack with wood slats for a VW Dasher station wagon.

You can probably make one yourself for the Tacoma.

 

My family's camping vehicle in the mid-1970s was a Pinto station wagon. My father built a plywood box, about 5FT x 2Ft x 2Ft. The box outlasted the Pinto. It was later installed on a Datsun wagon. I now realize that a nice Pelican case would have made the Pinto and Datsun even cooler I'd share a picture, but the only ones are probable on a slide, and I don't know how to upload from one of those

 

What do you intend to store in said box? Have you looked at harbor freight tools hard cases?

 

Mostly just miscellaneous camping supplies. Stuff that I don't use as often as the stuff in my drawer system. So we've got 1 successful box on a pinto! That's reassuring.
I haven't looked into the harbor freight boxes. Those aren't crazy prices, but I think I might wants something a little larger.

 

Nothing makes a pinto station wagon cool. (especially when you have to drive it in highschool)

 

LOL
I hear you on that.

I was a high school senior class of 1998. My dad gives me a 1978 VW Dasher wagon that he bought for like $300 and he painted it Ferrari red since he worked at a body shop and he thought it looked cool.
I would park it blocks away from school.

Only cool thing was that the rear seats would fold down…..

 

But, but, our's was orange!

 

With the going price of wood, I might steal it.

I actually think that's a cool idea. Do a nice looking wood and stain it.

 

I got this for my Xterra. Bolted it to a roof basket, kept all my extra fluids in it. Water proof, highway speeds and down po ur rain. Its going to be used on the tacoma next.

$376 Lund 288272 Challenger Series Brite ATV Front Storage Box , Black

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001VLQPQU?_encoding=UTF8

 

Check the customer pictures on HF's site. They have pics of one mounted on a Tacoma.

 

Every once and awhile, they show up at Sam's Club for less than $100. I think wood and hardware would cost more.

 

Yup. They are nice units lots of space. Wish they had modular slots for organizing but still nice.

 

You want larger than 50” x 13” x 5” ? Here’s some photos of them on trucks.