It was back in 1995 and I traveled to the grocery store and the auto supply store in Redwood City, California. I was actually driving a convertible Volkswagen rabbit, orange and black. I lived on Whipple. It was only about 5 or 6 miles round trip and took about 2 hours, I was taking my time.
I went to Safeway, then to Kragen Auto, and had about 10 grocery bags or so, some of them sitting on the front seat and rear seats and floor of passenger area. Of course when I got back to the newly paved driveway of my apartment complex, I stopped directly in front of the first apartment which was mine, instead of parking in the back.
I started to unload the groceries, walked over to the passenger side door, opened it up, and a jar of Best Foods Mayonnaise dropped out onto Bob’s, my WWII Vet Landlord’s newly paved, perfectly black smooth driveway. It was just my luck that Bob was driving his mint Chevy pickup in to collect someone’s late rent. Of course he saw what happened as I was picking up the glass off his new driveway.
Bob and I always got along. He would tell me stories about getting ambushed in the war. At any rate that day Bob was pissed at me and I felt kinda bad about it, so I started drawing (see image above) a cargo net suspended by short poles for the rear of the rabbit.
The idea lay dormant for 6 years, when watching a Padres game on TV while living in an apartment in San Diego, I got bored. I took out my original drawings and started adapting my original design for the rabbit with the pickup truck I had parked in my driveway downstairs. Subsequently, the CargoCatch, a.k.a. Bully Pac Mule Cargo Holder for pickup trucks was born.
More to come re: the history of Pac Mule Cargo Holder in this category.
Bill Graham
619-884-8563
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http://www.cargocatch.com/shop/truck-cargo-net.html
