What else would you use to haul to the dump, Besides a Chevy. Wouldnt want to mess up your Ford.HAHAHAHAHA
What point would that be?, if you have a whole heard of mopars you should have at least one chevy as back up??
I've actually pulled quite a few things with early Vette's. 1959, 1962 & 1966. They actually have a frame (unlike Unibody cars) and have a good weight ratio on the rear. So what's the issue? They also weight about 3000Lb. and have the guts to pull things up a hill. Here my 62 in about 1977. Sold it to buy property. It also towed a trailer.
This morning I was taking my boy to school and saw the trailer hooked up and thought the HAMB would get a kick out of it. Not to many old vettes like this are being used as a workhorse in this day and age. I'm not just responding to you movin/on. I have to admit I'm not a Corvette purist, or muscle car fan. That's why I get a kick out of seeing this car getting worked. I agree a car is a car in the end. I just wish I had the car to pull my trailer... Jeff
Cool pics, not what I expected to see either. Reminds me of the time, when I was working in a Mercedes Benz dealership a 20 years ago. A customer wanted to have a removable "pig hook" for his horsetrailer.Usually no problem, but his car was a brandnew 500 SL..... The car is still around, from time to time we see it on the streets with the horse trailer.
There were plenty of guys around the Seattle area who had hitches on their Corvettes in the 60's to pull their ski boats. Usually flat bottoms with more horsepower than the Corvettes.. I even used to see a couple pull into the drags with similar trailers with slicks, a jack and tool box in the trailer. It wasn't a big deal back then. Maybe that's his excuse to his wife for keeping the Vette. The other cars they have won't pull the trailer. Hell, it's his damned car and if that's what he wants to do with it so be it.
How about this '68 with 726 HP and runs 9.20's on pump gas and hauls a trailer Impressive, even if it is a Chevy http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_0609_1968_chevrolet_corvette/index.html
I wonder does the trailer get parked in the garage and the Vette sit outside? Next time he is out offer to buy the trailer then tell him you need something to tow it with and ask how the Vette is for towing. See what he says
Keith,that reminds me when I was a kid living in Hazel Park and my sister owned a 64 GTO with a 389/trips. She had to take it a out a few times a week in the evening andgo up and down I75 (back when they were still building it) and blow the carbon out of it. Man,I had forgotten how small those homes are. Hazel park has changed quite a bit from what I have heard as well.
I remember my dads friend towing his 18' ski boat behind his Irock camero to our house to go skiing. I always remember the tail of the car pretty low!
Cool to see the vette getting used....odd use for it...cool none the less. These were posted on the HAMB awhile back...I had to save em.
I've got two Vettes that were set up with trailer hitches in the past. I can't imagine keeping a 427/435hp motor cool with even more going on than normal. Seems to be something people did when their go fast car was also their go to the dump car or pull the boat beast.
I don't suppose you would settle for a F350 quadcab dually diesel towing a 40 foot airstream down the road This on was used by BNSF as crew housing & transported down the rail lines on a flat car in the 60's & 70's I found it in Elko, NV for a restoration shop, facilitated the purchase, transported it to Denver, CO Only one other one intact is known to exist - in a rail museum in California (I believe)
There is a guy in Key West who pulls a shabby landscape trailer with an equally shabby late 70's Corvette.
Putting a hitch on my 60 Vette, she has a trunk { real Vette's have trunks } but go on a trip with the wife and you need to carry a few more bags. Looking for a trailer like the one pictured above or a little smaller, may have to make one..... Not for dump runs.................
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