cars and surfing

Surfers traditionally have had a function-first attitude toward cars. Surfboard transportation all but demands a big, roomy, essentially non-sexy vehicle, while the by-products of a surfing life—damp towels, sand, wax, moldering wetsuits, salt air—ensure that the surf car, unless looked after with the kind of obsessive care and concern that generally doesn't sit well with the surfing obsession its...