<VV> new car for me - adventure

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

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Glad you're fine!  TRAILER??  I thought you were using a Dolley?  Missed 
that!

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Come on, pay attention - there will be a test.
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I don't think your friend has towed much! gg   Tell me...was it a BIG  heavy 
rental trailer?  Behind a Big Suburban "1500" [ 1/2 ton truck]??  Bad combo!  
Did he pump the tires up on the 'Burb to MAX? [ soft tires exaberate 
sway..once it starts....]

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I don't think he has as much towing experience as I thought but he has towed cars with this trailer and tow vehicle before - front engine ones though.  It's an '84 Suburban, I don't know if it's 1/2 ton one or not - it's massive though.  The trailer is a custom made one and ways more than the planet Earth as near as I can tell - lots and lots of steel.  Braking of any kind while going down hill would make the "wiggle" worse, acceleration would fix it - except this one last time.  Once the car was oriented "correctly" the rig was rock stable and well behaved.  I don't think the problem was the trailer or tow vehicle - it was the loose nuts behind the wheel.  There smarter now.
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A Dolley would've been fine....no tongue weight effects...IMO!

Just to let you know about the "right combo"  and ease of towing.......Herb 
Berkman  uses a single axle unit behing a Jeep Cherokee [ small one]  and tows 
his Yenko  nicely.....

For years I used [borrowed] a single, and hauled several Vairs behind a S-10  
Blazer...70-80 mpg...down BIG  hills...

Sure..a tandem would be better..but only if LIGHT.....U-hauls are 
HEAVY.....need 1-ton chassis to pull nicely /safely..

CorvairEd / Ed Corson  sold me a 65....We rolled it on the trailer..I left it 
in gear......His son says, "aren't you gonna tie it down?
So I used 1  MC  strap I had.....100 miles over some 
mountains..Interstate.......home in 90 minutes.....only when going uphill did 
you know something was 
back there....

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We had very strong and tight straps at the four corners.  They did their job - that car should have been launched during our gyrations but it wasn't.  The damage came from it rocking on its own suspension and contacting the trailer rails.
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Let's hope you DRIVE  the car everywhere you go!

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you said it brother - no more trailers for my baby.  Well, maybe backwards in an enclosed trailer with me in another vehicle miles away.
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Matt Nall
65/66/69/DB/BT
Coos Bay, Ore.

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mike