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Picked up Miss Agathas trailer today. Looks like it is just right.

Will put a drop hitch on the truck to make it tow flat as it is really low with a drop axle, easy to get a car on and off. Will need to do a bit of cleaning and painting and a new peice of plywood. but it is great.
 
Excellent, Jack. I'd like to find one just like yours. Got to keep my eyes open.
 
I guess I really need to start posting more...been so busy with projects of late...and since I retired last August, I just don't have any time /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

I met Jack yesterday when he picked up the trailer...birds of a feather. I'm glad to see the trailer go to someone that will enjoy and use it, it is a sweet setup.

It truly is a small (LBCar) world. After Jack posted about the trailer Jim Horton surmised that it might be mine and Hap chimed in as well. I have the good fortune of counting both of these gentlemen as friends.

I could not be more pleased than to have Hap as the builder of the 1275 for my project car. The fact that he's only a two hour drive away is the icing on the cake. Any closer and he'd have already run me off for pestering him /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Jim's about to get Midgie roadworthy and start doing some local events. Hopefully he'll be meeting up with some of us in the North Georgia area as we invade the muscle domains. Who knows...there may come a day when LBCs outnumber the Camaros at the local cruise...we can only hope!

Anyway, it's good to be back; I'll try to be a bit more involved. BTW, you can check out my current project (read life's work) at the location below.

Ray
 
Ray:

Great to meet you, your web site is fantastic.

Pat
 
Ray, I finally made it over to your website, I could spend hours there /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Lot's of cool stuff, and I love the pictures of Max with his goggles on, I'll have to show those Max pictures to Mary Jane, she's going to love that /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Also I really like your rear rotisserie bracket and your use of the tail light area for attaching, that would easily make it able to paint the car on the rotisserie, really clever!
 
GB1 said:
Ray:

Great to meet you, your web site is fantastic.

Pat
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif That is a great web site!!! Nice to meet another model lover too /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif ( those Solidos are sweet /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif !)!
 
Ok, I saw the trailer, etc. I'm impresed.

The white MG has a couple of factory eyes on the front rails in front of the radiator.

Who has a couple of those from a car long gone??? Tony maybe?? Anyway this looks like the way to tie things down proper.

Forgot to see how he is doing the rear. Ray, how is the rear hooked up?? Anyone.

Looks like I will see more of Ray he is only about 30 min from my daughter in Atlanta so we have a date to go harass Hap and take him to lunch on my next trip up here.

The only problem with the trailer pick up was we could have used a lot more time to just set and yak. Man is nice to meet new old friends. No introduction hardly we just started yaking and enjoying.
 
WHEW!! I earmarked that site to return to tonight....looks like I won't be reading any books tonight, that site looks so interesting.

Jack, I've got an original Lucas fog light & 2 Lucas driving lights for the front of my TD!
 
I think he's referring to tie-down rings, Tony! Not a bad idea for trailering! How about tie-down straps over the rear axle Jack? You know those ratcheting ones!
 
But my brake lines run across the top of the axles?

Aye to tie things down easly.
 
Jack and everybody else as well, here's my advice on tie downs, get really good ones, not the kind of stuff you find at Walmart, so that you don't have to worry about that cherry of yours getting loose. I see things with people tieing cars down that scares the bejeezes out of me, first off, anything with a open end hook isn't worth having, you want the safety latch ends the spring loaded closed ends, I go with 3" wide units as well. I highly recommend M&R tie downs and axle straps, go to their site and check them out.
Take this from someone who has hauled high dollar race cars thousands of miles.

https://www.mrproducts.com
 

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Jack, the towing eyes are stock items (Moss #400-575); you can find them if you look real close (they're very small) in the Moss catalog on the "Bumpers" page. There are two, one on each forward frame member. I have a heavy SS/w vinyl coated yoke with three heavy duty snap links in it, one for each towing eye and the other floating on the yoke for the winch lead hook. The winch is electric and I don't trust it to hold the front of the car when on the road (it's also not good for the winch) so I hook a heavy rachet type tie down through the driver's side tow hook, the other end to a floor tie ring, and tighten it to release the pressure off the winch cable.

In the rear I use two ratchet type tie downs, each hooked over the rear spring at the shackle with the other end attached to a trailer tie ring on the OPPOSITE SIDE of the trailer from the spring. That is, the rear tie downs form an "X"...no movement!

I had the trailer built with (6) 5000lb tie rings, one in each corner and two midway (those I've never used).

I've done a LOT of towing, including last summer through the Smokies to MG2006 and never had the car move. Total time from when I unlock the trailer's rear door until I drive off is <5 minutes. I do NOT drive the car into the trailer. Some day I'm going to be an old man...so I made it easy!

Ray
 
Ach - dummy me!!

Jack - TSC makes fabric straps you can wrap around an axle & then attach your comealongs to them...I use them on the rear of MG's
 
Thanks guys. Will work this all out when I get home. Good advise all. Appreciate.
 
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