Happy Trails

[Guest]

Or better yet, how not to trail.

A friend from Connecticut was down visiting his inlaws and found a decent TR6 to buy from an estate sale. In fact that is how I met him, saw a TR6 cruising though my little burg and immediately followed him home. Nice guy but not mechanically inclined. In fact, down right inept. When it was time to get the car back to his home in Connecticut, he locally bought a new 4-wheel (at least it had 4 wheels) utility trailer. No brakes of course. The kind you would take trash to the dump with. Somehow he got the car on the trailer, applied the emergency brake on the TR6 and tied it down with 2 WalMart tie-down straps, and off he went, towing with a 20-year-old Suburban. God, how he made it back to Connecticut is beyond me. But he did.

He must have had a guardian angel looking over his shoulder the whole way. If that were me, I would be somewhere on the side of the road with a TR6 in my rear compartment. I wonder if that was him that recently took down that bank drive-thru.....

 

[Shane]

I'm surprised he didn't get pulled over. Highway Patrol doesn't take too kindly to improper trailering.

 

[Silverghost]

I worked with a man once who had a 1930's Rolls Royce. He rented a Ryder Cargo truck to get his car to the national meet. First, he drove the car onto a flatbed truck and then backed the flatbed up to the Ryder truck and drove his car into the Ryder truck. He drilled holes in the floor of the Ryder truck, installed eyebolts and used ratch straps to secure it. The scary part - for me - came at the unloading at the meet. He repeated the procedure in reverse only the flatbed at the meet was not the same height as the Ryder truck, it was about 10 inches lower. The owner simply drove his car out of the Ryder truck onto the flatbed. What horrified me was that when he came down from the Ryder truck, the rear bumper could not have been 2-3 inches from the back end of the Ryder truck! When I scraped my jaw up off the ground, all I could think was dumb, dumb, dumb.....and incredibly lucky! I had spent the previous 3 weeks getting that car ready for the meet! It placed 2nd in class. But it ALMOST didn't get to!