I Love What My Camry Wagon Can Haul. In the last few weeks I've hauled....

[Variety=Spice]

- an Audi hood on the roof
- 2 Audi doors inside the Camry going back and forth to my evening autobody repair class
- two several-hundred-gallon plastic garden ponds on the roof today
- countless boxes during a recent move
- huge-ass big screen tv (OK, that was on Black Friday back in November)
- rental ladders when I need them
- and all sorts of shizzle from Home Depot and Lowes for the new home

It seems this thing can swallow almost anything. What it can't fits nicely on the roof and ties down securely to the OEM rack.

Just thought I'd share.

What have you hauled with YOUR Camry?

[camryvibe]

Originally Posted by Variety=Spice

What have you hauled with YOUR Camry?

A bed, dresser, kitchen table, and most of our daughter's belongings on her way to college.

[HomeGrown]

I'm also surprised at what it can swallow up! We went to Lowe's and picked up 2 base cabinets, a huge medicine cabinet, a few sticks of wood, a couple bags. Then stopped @ Wal-Mart for another long box with a tub/shower caddy and a few more bags, then off to Harbor Freight to pick up a small drill press. Everything fit easily and neatly in the back.

Since I won't ever have more than 2 people in the old beater, I was thinking about removing the rear seats and cutting a piece of plywood to fully cover the floor area nice and flat, up to the back of the front seats. Convert it into more of a panel wagon than a passenger car. I've got a back-yard project coming up, and that would make it really easy to carry bigger stuff and clean out more easily.

[curtisz]

- bunk bed
- moving trash
- bunch of boxes in a recent move
- lots of servers and computer equipment
- a sand box
- unbelievable amounts of groceries
- I have actually used it to camp out on a couple occasions (though I am slightly too long for the trunk)
- nearly had sofa to fit (was only an inch to wide)

I only wish I could get three forward facing car seats in the damn thing. I can barely get two forward facings and one rear facing (without the base), and now my youngest is almost out of the rear facing. What sucks the most is that the '87 I have does not have shoulder straps in the back, so I cannot use a belt positioning booster. I refuse to put a car seat in the front seat too. I do not quite trust the front belts.

[drugal]

I crammed four Gen2 Camry doors in my Gen2 Camry sedan at once.

I tore them apart for the power options and wired it all into the existing doors.

[TBayToyotaBoy]

I used to haul hundreds of pounds of newsprint around every night on my 200 km rural paper route (with a sub box in the trunk). I put wagon struts on the rear to allow for more payload...

Last week I broke my own record by hauling three transmissions from work to my customer at once--one Lumina APV van tranny, and two Lumina sedan 2.8 trannies. I'd guess the load at around 300lbs (plus 200lbs of tools, my subs, and a 190lb me, driving!).

[es250nut]

My wife has you all beat! She managed to get a horse in our wagon. Granted he is a miniature and his shoulder comes up to my waist, but still, a freak'n horse! If you look at the roof line of our Camry you can see where he pushed up against it.

My wife has also been known to haul about a dozen or so bales of hay in the car, and I have hauled engines and trannies in it.

These cars are actually trucks in disguise. At least that's what the neighbors must think.

[HomeGrown]

LOL! Wow, your wagon must be trashed inside!

[Ancientwolf13]

Originally Posted by es250nut

My wife has you all beat! She managed to get a horse in our wagon. Granted he is a miniature and his shoulder comes up to my waist, but still, a freak'n horse! If you look at the roof line of our Camry you can see where he pushed up against it.

My wife has also been known to haul about a dozen or so bales of hay in the car, and I have hauled engines and trannies in it.

These cars are actually trucks in disguise. At least that's what the neighbors must think.

All I can say to that is you deserve . Anyone else would of needed a trailer.

[es250nut]

She's pretty good at keeping a tarp on hand, so the only noticeable sign of abuse is a cut in the rear passenger door panel and the aforementioned ripples in the roofline. Otherwise, amazingly, its still fairly nice.

I still remember when she came home and told me about the horse though. I thought she was yanking my leg, then I saw the evidence.

[Doctor J]

Among the medium sized wagons (Buick Century, Vovo 240, and Camry) Volvo has the biggest cargo displacement and Buick has the smallest.My wagon was loaded once with boxes full of books (about 1000 lbs) (that was more then the manual says). Always make sure you are not oveloading the car.

[HomeGrown]

Originally Posted by Doctor J

......My wagon was loaded once with boxes full of books (about 1000 lbs) (that was more then the manual says). Always make sure you are not oveloading the car.

Hey Doc, is that one of those "do as I say, not as I do" examples?

It is dangerous to overload a car, especially if the load is behind the rear axle, causing weight transfer from the front end.

I can see the Volvo having the largest cu. ft. of cargo area, but I'm surprised to see that the Buick Century has the smallest (I would have guessed it was the Camry). We had 2 Buick Century wagons and a Chevy Celibrity wagon (same platforms). Nice cars. I wouldn't mind having a nicer (lower mileage) Camry wagon.

[Doctor J]

Late 80s Buick Century wagon cargo area is wider but lower then one of Camry.
I am always pushing my cars to the limit in some way (durability testing).
Most of my education comes from my past and present mistakes; the experience I am trying to share with others. Other way of learning is the self-education and it is lifelong process.The diploma is just piece of paper with which you can demand or ask for higher salary when getting hired. I know many smart people without the formal degree as well as many boring and silly people with diplomas who just memorized the study material and could not apply it in the real world of engineering education.One of my former professors was like this. She never see large industrial factory in her life, however she is teaching the engineering technology by memorizing the textbooks.

[HomeGrown]

That topic is one of my hot buttons. Unfortunately, most employers would rather hire someone fresh out of school with a degree than someone with years of proven experience. I've had to pass by a LOT of job opportunities for jobs that I was highly qualified for, but couldn't get because I didn't have a degree. Evidently common sense and experience mean nothing in the job market.

Boy, this thread sure got derailed.

[ninja771]

a single bed with box spring fits flat in my 91 wagon! =]