Old Town Canoe Comparison

[Trout Commander]

Do they have any universal type mounts that utilize your existing crossbars??

[Gavin]

These should work... add a bar, canoe brakets, & lock cores sold separately.

http://www.yakima.com/shop/racksystems/factory-tracks-or-rails/railgrab

[Al Agnew]

I don't know whether they are still available anywhere, but for a long time when I had minivans, I had a set of steel plates that acted like artificial rain gutters, which attached to the vehicle in between the roof and the base of the existing luggage racks. You just unbolted the luggage racks, put the steel plates on the roof where the luggage rack base footprints were (they had holes pre-drilled to match the bolt holes in the roof), then put the luggage rack bases on top and re-bolted using the same bolts. Then you could use the cheap, Quick-n-easy rack towers, which are built for cars with rain gutters (or get Yakima or Thule racks made for rain gutters). The Quick-n-easy racks were lots cheaper than Yakima or Thule racks, but you had to come up with your own cross bars and canoe brackets.

[grizwilson]

Criket

Gavin is correct. Those would attach to your rack. You can buy the yellow gas pipe and paint it for the cross bars and make any length you like. I have wrestled and made homemade deals for 25 years, bought my first set of yakima last year, (used) what was I waiting for SO much better. here is a used set.

http://springfield.craigslist.org/spo/2287490575.html

g

[FishinCricket]

Cricket

Gavin is correct. Those would attach to your rack. You can buy the yellow gas pipe and paint it for the cross bars and make any length you like. I have wrestled and made homemade deals for 25 years, bought my first set of yakima last year, (used) what was I waiting for SO much better. here is a used set.

http://springfield.craigslist.org/spo/2287490575.html

g

Now that's advice I can use! Thanks..