any surfers with a coupe?
#1
any surfers with a coupe?
Any surfers that own a coupe? I'm thinking about starting to surf and want to know if there is a product out there that will safely hold the board on top of the g without damaging the car or the paint. I looked around and found a soft rack but I want to know if there is something better. Thanks
#4
Just put your board in the passenger's seat.
Step 1 - Recline the passenger's seat
Step 2 - Put the board in with fins up and nose toward the rear window. (Use a board bag or sock to keep the wax off of the seat)
Step 3 - Put the seat belt around the board and secure it in place.
Step 4 - (With slack still in the belt and the passenger window down) carefully and gently close the passenger's door.
Step 5 - Snug the seat belt to keep the board from sliding around.
If you need to take someone else to the beach with you, just get a set of removable hard racks and put them on the other persons car. (Me, I throw my boards into the wife's Sequoia if I go w/ the family).
Oh, and after 6 trips to Costa Rica, 2 to Barbados and 1 to Hawaii, who says a "true surfer" cannot afford a G? One of the best surfers/shapers in Florida, Randy Richenberg, owns a late 90's model E36 M3.
Step 1 - Recline the passenger's seat
Step 2 - Put the board in with fins up and nose toward the rear window. (Use a board bag or sock to keep the wax off of the seat)
Step 3 - Put the seat belt around the board and secure it in place.
Step 4 - (With slack still in the belt and the passenger window down) carefully and gently close the passenger's door.
Step 5 - Snug the seat belt to keep the board from sliding around.
If you need to take someone else to the beach with you, just get a set of removable hard racks and put them on the other persons car. (Me, I throw my boards into the wife's Sequoia if I go w/ the family).
Oh, and after 6 trips to Costa Rica, 2 to Barbados and 1 to Hawaii, who says a "true surfer" cannot afford a G? One of the best surfers/shapers in Florida, Randy Richenberg, owns a late 90's model E36 M3.
#6
That's not a surfboard... anything over 6' 8" is classified as a canoe.
Me, I'm 6' 0" and ~180 lbs. and waves head high or under I ride a 6' 0" fish. Anything up to about 4' over head and I'm on a 6' 5" speed board (mini squash tail) and if the winds are REALLY HARD OFFSHORE and/or if the waves are larger, I've got a 6' 8" mini gun (pin tail).
Going big is good but droping in LATE is better!
Me, I'm 6' 0" and ~180 lbs. and waves head high or under I ride a 6' 0" fish. Anything up to about 4' over head and I'm on a 6' 5" speed board (mini squash tail) and if the winds are REALLY HARD OFFSHORE and/or if the waves are larger, I've got a 6' 8" mini gun (pin tail).
Going big is good but droping in LATE is better!
#7
Don't drive your G to the beach to surf. I drove mine to the beach for a while, got out of the water one day and there was a nice 3x3 dent on the rear fender wheel well. People at the beach don't respect cars at all. I picked up a beater and that's my beach car now.
If you must drive the G, put the board in the car. Get a boardbag regardless. If the board goes inside you save your interior from wax/sand/sal****er. If outside you save your board from any errant rocks being kicked up. I could fit my shortboard(with boardbag) in the trunk, rear seat folded down. Racks are an eyesore. People may think you're a kook (deragatory term for bad surfer) if you put a rack on the G. As if you're some yuppie trying to surf to look cool.
But if you really must rack it, I used Dakine soft racks on my rental in Hawaii. Good racks. Didn't seem to mess up the car, held the boards well.
If you must drive the G, put the board in the car. Get a boardbag regardless. If the board goes inside you save your interior from wax/sand/sal****er. If outside you save your board from any errant rocks being kicked up. I could fit my shortboard(with boardbag) in the trunk, rear seat folded down. Racks are an eyesore. People may think you're a kook (deragatory term for bad surfer) if you put a rack on the G. As if you're some yuppie trying to surf to look cool.
But if you really must rack it, I used Dakine soft racks on my rental in Hawaii. Good racks. Didn't seem to mess up the car, held the boards well.
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#8
You're crazy if you're using the G as your beach car. Man get a cheap used car and put some racks on that. You don't want salt air damaging the G. But then if you were a surfer you'll already have a "beach car".
Man just imagine all the sand and having to sit on the leather seats with the salt water. It's a chance I wouldn't take.
I currently have some softracks from T&C they're different from the typical soft racks because they're square not rounded.
Man just imagine all the sand and having to sit on the leather seats with the salt water. It's a chance I wouldn't take.
I currently have some softracks from T&C they're different from the typical soft racks because they're square not rounded.
#9
Naahhhh, just take a huge plastic 5 gallon container full of tap water and shower off after a nice session or two. Do the quick beach towel-board short change (all surfers know what this is) and then throw on some baggies and you're off. That's right, free ballin' baby! You feel clean, the inside of the G is 100% clean and when you get home wash the car like there's no tomorrow.
There's nothing better than getting out of the water after a very good session and having the ladies see you hop into the G. Aaahhh the good life.
There's nothing better than getting out of the water after a very good session and having the ladies see you hop into the G. Aaahhh the good life.
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that does look like disaster waiting to happen. I could see how that could go wrong in so many ways. Neff I never surfed before so people have been suggesting a fun board for me which I believe is around 8ft range so will that still fit with the back seat down and front seat tilted back? I think I'm going to try putting the board at an angle and seat belt it which would probably work. I also thought about getting a beach car but I got the coupe at a very early age of 18 and I don't think my parents will approve the idea of me getting a separate car just for purpose of going to the beach. Even if I got enough money together and paid for insurance and everything they would question why I have a g35 then. I go to school in nor cal and live in so cal so I could try and argue that I can use the beater car for making trips up and down from school to home but having a 35,000 dollar car sitting in the garage for most of the year seems like a big waste. I was actually thinking about trading down for like a cheap small suv or a small truck but then everytime I hear the purr out of the exhaust of the G I just can't think of trading it in.