I guess my point has been the tongue weight is indeed manageable, but it may
not be possible to rely on factory equipped hitches to do so.
Also, consider that a "normal" sized car in a 28' trailer would be fairly
easy to maneuver for optimum weight bias...but in this case, I'm loading 2
Sprites, so one will be in front of the trailer axles.
WST
-----Original Message-----
From: MGTD2@aol.com [mailto:MGTD2@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 12:10 PM
To: wsthompson@thicko.com; team-thicko@autox.team.net
Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: hard to believe, but I learned somethin
Flounder:
I heard a very similar "discovery" recently from a couple of friends who
pulled their '53 Ford to Mexico for the Carrera Panamerican. They had
gotten this huge Pace American enclosed trailer and Ford lent them the
largest, heaviest Ford Explosion SUV to pull it. There was plenty of space
in the trailer for spares, tools, etc., but virtually no weight capacity.
(and '53 Fords are relatively light for American iron). And when you loaded
the trailer in then "normal" way-- tools, spares, small bench in the front
of the trailer, tongue weight was unmanageable. They didn't take a lot of
stuff and still exceeded the trailer's GVW by about 60%. Fortunately, specs
for the trailer hitch were conservative and they made it down and back with
no problems.
-John Deikis
"BHT"
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