Post #226649 by MobileTikiBar on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 7:42 PM

On 2006-04-13 09:23, senioraqua wrote:
What a great thing to sell and get tax write off on tickets, travel, and liquor.
Genius.

It's all kind of funny how it worked out. We've been doing this tailgate thing for a few years, and always had the typical fold up chairs, fold up table, grill stuff. We began talking about what it would take to make our tailgate over the top... and the one thing that stuck in our minds was a tiki bar. Bringing one of my home tiki bars was sort of out of the question, although I kept trying to talk the guys into renting a u-haul and bringing a sofa, tv, generator, satellite dish, etc... nobody seemed interested though.

After coming up with some maximum dimensions when compact and when stood up, it didn't take long to come up with a way to make it portable and strong. The really cool thing about it is, we wanted to do it without having any tools or a bunch of parts when you put it up or down. We had seen some PVC based things, and it just seemed like it would be a lot of work. With the requirement to fit it into a compact car, a hyundai elantra.

Once the initial engineering/design was complete, there were few refinements and it came together pretty quickly. We spent more time on the roof than expected, but it's much better today than it was in the beginning (after an afternoon on Cocoa Beach in high winds, it proved the need to beef up the roof).

We honestly never expected to sell these from the get-go. We really just wanted to put something together we could enjoy, and could take along when we're going out for a good time. The side effect, once we did that, is folks began saying that we should sell them, it seemed like a no-brainer.

The idea of a tax write-off is very good... never even thought of that. :)

-adrian

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[ Edited by: MobileTikiBar 2006-04-14 07:57 ]