Lightweight Trailer Idea Thread!

[GenevaDirt]

hahahahahahahahahahaha

[MONSOON]

And others take up the mantel and run with it!

[Pu241]

I suspect it won't be run very far!

I suspect safty Guy will appreciate the info in the link and that's all that matters.

[Levitan]

Despite the turn of negativity with the oldest thread award and the reactions that it now receives having lost the funniness of Monsoon's originality,this link takes me down memory highway a bit.

Years ago, I moved to California. At the time I was a goldsmith/jeweler and moved out there to be with a chick that I could not convince to move back to Iowa, where our lovely climate includes snow, humidity and a tornado or seven. Go figure! Anyways, at that time, I owned a Chevy Cavalier Wagon that had been t-boned on the passenger side. I purchased a cheap trailer from Harbor freight, like Karl is talking about, with the
8" tires. I then put on top of the trailer a 10' oval livestock watering trough that the bottom had rotted away. I filled it with all my worldly belongings, tarped over it, and proceeded to tie, fasten, strap, and rope anything and everything I owned to that trailer. In a nutshell, when I arrived in Sunnyvale, CA, Silicon Valley, I looked like the Beverly flippin' Hillbillies!!
Probably kinda hard to envision that, but it sure makes me snicker when I think back at it!

[Safety Guy]

Thanks for sharing!

I will now be off to cruise the pastures outside Cow-lumbus looking for the perfect aerodynamically shaped watering trough!

Karl

[Levitan]

Just to let you know Karl, that posting was not designed to inform you of any trailer designs, strictly to make me snicker....and to remove some of the worthless things from my blender, which most people refer to as a brain!

[Levitan]

Now, if you are looking to double your cargo space, I would recommend the following!

[bobstad]

a great heavy-hauler!

In moving myself from Eureka, CA to Bellingham, WA(675 miles) using my Festiva(seven loads between February and June) I'd used a dual cross-bar type roof-rack I got for $20 I'd bolted a tubular black metal futon frame to.(kieped from beside a large semi trailer Saint Vincent de Paul's stored donations in behind the Sebastapol, CA VFW hall one evening during the 2004 California Herdeljezi Festival; <http://www.voiceofroma.com>)

With the Festiva Motor Sports "lowering/racing springs" this was a really good set-up for moving an amazing amount of possessions and my mileage was about 30 mpg, traveling pretty close to the posted speed limits along interstate five through Washington and Oregon, and the winding two-lane highways south of there.(the front FMS springs give a too stiff ride to my taste and not enough clearance for snow chains with 13" rims, so next time the front end is torn apart I may put the stock ones back that felt good driving about 10,000 miles with the FMS rear springs-but those are essential to feel safe even driving normally)(I wonder why they built the car with such a flimsy set of rear springs the owner before me had put those solid metal spacers in I'd thought had been out of favor since the '60s reputed to break springs, to try to stiffen the handling a little which wallowed badly at freeway speeds and the stock 12" wheels even with the spacers installed)

With the futon frame on the roof I was able to lash quite a lot above the rear bumper too, running rope between the futon frame and the metal brackets below the car I've been told are common on Asian built cars used to hold them onto ocean-going ship decks.

[V8Festiva]

Harley Hauler


Dean
Raleigh, NC

[packrat427]

That is awesome Dean !!

A hauler that basically gets as good as the haulee .

[bobstad]

Wow!: A Festiva garbage truck.("Reagonomics" Rotch Crocket)

[wcbarker]

This thread might be old but looky what I found.
Bought the 40 coupe last year for the 08 Gold Wing but thought it might look cool behind my 93 festy named Gizmo.
Will take pics of trailer this weekend and post them for you to see.
Take a look www.carreplicatrailers.com

[elcamino1]

This thread might be old but looky what I found.
Bought the 40 coupe last year for the 08 Gold Wing but thought it might look cool behind my 93 festy named Gizmo.
Will take pics of trailer this weekend and post them for you to see.
Take a look www.carreplicatrailers.com

Got a couple of friends that has those trailers,one has a Corvette,the other has a Caddy Escalade,I pull a Hannagan behind my Wing!

[SimonTuffGuy]

Hmmm... I want to find a cheap trailer to pull my bike around on.

[elcamino1]

Hmmm... I want to find a cheap trailer to pull my bike around on.

Motorcycles were made to ride not tow!!!