with fixed or movable pads for supporting damageable items such as surfboards the tray may be equipped with various means for facilitating tie down of the goods in the tray and in the rack such as eyebolts to which the user may connect surfboard leashes the tray may be manufactured of expanded steel the tray may be provided with a variety of adapters or reducers for coupling to a variety of hitches and receivers the bumper connectors may have any suitable shape they may simply slip down over the bumper or they may slide in over the ends of the bumper they should be held in place some positive retention means such as rubber backed clamps bolts screws locks or the like in some embodiments the user may remove the rack while leaving the tray in place or vice versa the user might use the support bars to hold items in a horizontal position rather than vertically as shown while the rack has been illustrated with reference to an embodiment in which the horizontal rails can be slid to various positions along the vertical rails there are also embodiments in which the opposite is true in which the vertical rails slide laterally along the horizontal rails and while the connectors have been illustrated in a t configuration other configurations are certainly within the scope of this invention such as l shapes and while the connectors have been illustrated as holding the vertical and horizontal rails in substantially the same plane in other embodiments they could occupy different parallel planes such that both the horizontal rails and the vertical rails may extend beyond the other providing maximum flexibility in configuration whereas in.