Originally Posted by
fishboat
It's an original Thule design. It appears it's a "Thule Rack-N-Loc Classic 938". I did replace the outboard aluminum bars that run forward and back..you see them in the pic of my carrier..the silver aluminum bars. The original ones were shorter and vinyl covered. They worked fine, but they didn't allow enough room for bikes with wide flatbars (like a mtn bike).
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That is not the same rack that you have in your pictures.
But it appears
this one is. And is part of what made me suspect of the origins of yours.
I was not suggesting it was your DIY work, but that of a previous owner.