Good advice there ! My 1934 Singer is a bit narrow between the
wheels and its first time on a trailer required a trip to the local
lumber yard for some 1/2 plywood and lots of rope to make it fit on
the trailer. This was out in yahoo-land and nearest store was about
40 miles from where I purchasing the car, they did not have 3/4ply so
I got 1/2" and some nails, got back to the guys house and oops (or
more like DUH) you can't nail that plywood to the METAL trailer and
it was not my trailer so I was not about to drill holes into it, duct
tape and rope got the plywood more or less stable and only had to
stop twice on the way home to re-align the plywood under the wheels.
I learned lots of things on that trip besides how to get a car
onto a trailer that it does not fit. 1. tongue weight is important
and that silly little Singer is a extremely light weight car (so is
your Spridget). 2. Single axle trailers suck even worse than duals
when you don't have the proper tongue weight. 3. Every other driver
on the road will see you are hauling a trailer without brakes and cut
you off purposely because they know you have doubled your braking
distance and want to scare you.
I went out and bought a trailer that next weekend.
Dual axle with electric brakes and oh yeah with wider than normal
ramps so that it fit my little car :)
Depending on your model car, there are some cool toys for that
brake adapter in your truck, I purchased from GMC a circuit breaker
that fits where the fuse would go, rather handy when you forget to
disconnect your friends boat trailer and pop the fuse at dark, just
lift the hood and push the little reset button, I think it cost $30
from GMC but got me home with lights.
Last item is, if it is a one time 1,200 mile haul, U-Haul will save
the storage hassles.
mike
At 03:07 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>Lots of good advice about tandem axles, brakes, etc. Assuming
>adulthood I'll let you make up your mind about what you need.
>
>My advice is to keep in mind that the inside track of a Spridget is,
>well, not much. IME, many open car trailers will not accept a Spridget
>for that reason. Take a tape measure with you or consider a flat bed
>trailer. It would seem a mid-size "landscape" trailer would be a
>viable option for trailering a Sprite.
>
>Eric Russell
>Mebane, NC
>http://home.mebtel.net/~ejrussell
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Bug Writer err...Programmer
mikey@b2systems.com
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