Woot Woot, finally finished making my rear roof rack and mounting my new awning. Will take some pics over the weekend of the bar I made and the awning itself, which can double as my car's progress shot.
I'm on the 105 series owners page on facebook and I used to check it out a few times a day but the last few weeks I have not been on social media very often. I checked in on the page Monday and seen a ARB Deluxe steel bar for sale for $700! (worth $1800 brand new) I was skeptical as to why it was so cheap but traveled the 4 hours to meet the seller and he explained it was due to an insurance job, someone in a Nissan Pulsar reversed into his car and their insurance company decided to give him a brand new bullbar since the pulsar hit his. He bought it back for $500 and made $200 from selling it on and from what i can tell its undamaged only has some white paint from the pulsar. SCORE
Hopefully with time permitting I'll be fitting this up before Christmas, and then i can mount my spotlights I bought off my boss, 2nd hand Narva Rally 2000's with HID kits fitted.
When i fit my drawers I just put them in the most convenient spot which was where the base mounts already were, so that they finished right against my rear seats when folded down. I did this as i sleep in the back of my car when on camping trips, I hate tents and have too many run ins with spiders and venomous snakes to sleep on a swag on the ground.
But this leaves a 1150mm or so gap between my drawers and the tailgate, which i see as wasted space since i dont have anything that fits there without sliding or flopping about. In the near future ill be moving the mounts to have the drawers closer to 5mm from the tailgate, and remove the rear seats and make a bolt in platform to sit level with the drawers and free up all the space my rear seats are wasting.