Picked up a little trailer

[neanderpaul]

Yes it was! I bet that was a work horse!

[kartracer46]

I pull Festiva's with my 88 carby and a 5-speed, never been outta 4th towing but still knocks down 38-40 mpg. A tad sluggish on take off and you have to leave plenty of braking room while pulling a car, but overall they tow very well with a b3. I have even pulled some with brakes hanging up and all kinds of crazy things.

[1990new]

1990new, that looks like a good mounting system. The only improvement I can think of would be to put a semicircle of steel (like the Curt mount) under the spare tire well with three or four through bolts to spread the force out a little bit more. That's probably unnecessary though.

An excellent idea. You comment spurred me to check further.
This is a homemade hitch that was on another Festiva that I bought and then sold (the one in the pictures on www.festivacentral.blogspot.com showing the carpet and padding being replaced). It's been almost four years since I installed the hitch on Junkyard Save. After I read your comment I went out and took the spare tire out to check to see if I had installed reinforcement inside the spare tire well. The only reinforcement is a big washer and instead of two attach points, there is only one at the end of the bar (the tapered end in the picture). Had no problems with it though. I think most of the pressure is on the tow hook attach points.

[neanderpaul]

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