[quote=Brad54]Those Classic Racks are AWESOME.
I've got a '61 Suburban and I'm a freelance writer and photographer. With the platform option and the ladder, I could make good use of that at events, car shows, etc. ..."
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======True...but you are not the first one to think of it...carter had a cool gimmick there in the 1960s.
Little "history" I found out, from buying these racks and all the original literature I could find:
There were "Photographer's Carpacs" with a ladder option, and they were only made up in the longer sizes...They had a wooden platform, ON TOP OF the thinner wooden slats that the regular ones had.
I have had the good luck to find an original. Not as nice looking from the top...but functional!
Also...I have sales literature from 1960, and then a rehashed version of the same brochure from 1964...over the picture of the Photographer's model on the 1964 version, it has stamped, "DISCONTINUED".
I wonder if they stopped making them because they got sued!
(How easy would it be do get distracted while looking through a lens, and step off the edge or trip over the 5" railing!!).
