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Subject: Re: [TR] Trailers
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:02:25 +0100
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, at around 13:00:14 local time, MMoore8425@aol.com 
wrote:

>I used one to bring a TR3 from Quincy, Illinois to Los Angeles. I used
>a 73 Chevy Caprice to pull it and it was no problem.
>My timing gear came apart on the Chevy in Oklahoma and we had to be
>towed into the Chevy agency.
>The tow vehicle was a modified Oldsmobile Station wagon, made into a
>pickup truck. He also used one of those tow dollys.
>So, we had a 66 Olds pickup pulling a 73 Chevy Caprice on a tow dolly,
>connected to another tow dolly with a 59 TR3a on it.
>We must have looked like a band of gypsies going down the Interstate.
>This was 1984.

Dear Mike,

I really hope you have a photograph of this, and are going to upload it 
somewhere. :-)

Thanks for a great story!

ATB
-- 
Mike
Ellie  - 1963 White Triumph Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
Connie - 1968 Conifer Triumph Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
Unnamed - 1977 Russet Triumph 2500S Automatic Estate MP6711 SCA
Carly  - 1977 Inca Yellow Triumph Spitfire 1500 FH105671
Aneka  - 1984 Cashmere Gold Triumph Acclaim CD SAXXDELX7BM232714


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