Pondering things trailer queens never experience

Now before I get flamed I understand that some have circumstances that dictate trailering. I respect those.

I was just pondering some of the things those trailered, roll them through the gate, park them up front, show me the hardware vehicles never experience.

1) How difficult it is to clean bugs from the winshield and front end.
2) Changing the oil after 3500 miles.
3) The feeling of a tire/wheel out of balance.
4) Buying fuel more than once a year.
5) Replacing worn brake pads.
6) Vacuuming those fries that you dropped under the seat while driving on the interstate.
7) Thumbs up while on the interstate or a country back road.
8) Changing that dirty air filter.
9) Getting a speeding ticket.
10) Changing those worn wiper blades.
11) Sitting on the fender/tailgate.
12) Letting a friend sit on the fender/tailgate.
13) Using that free car wash offer when filling the tank.
14) Fretting over exceeding the mileage restriction on the insurance policy.
15) Recieving a Ya Gotta Drivem award from GoodGuys.

Now this is just some of the things that come to mind for me. How about you.

 

I have driven and trailered my 62. I actually have recieved more damage in trailering than driving..
When going to e day inside shows, we trailered so we would not have to drive two separate vehicles.
In trailering, I have always experienced debris from trucks and other cars going in opposing directions and my car sat just high enough to catch that flying debris.
I will take bugs anyday.

 

isnt the fun of it what they are really missing? wheres the adventure in putting it on a trailer?

to me its kind of a challenge to see if the car i built can make it where i need to go. (She hasnt left me sitting yet, even with the daily 40 min each way commute to work)

 

There's a need for both. If you have pristine show car built for competition it gets trailered. If you build a car to knock around in, well, OK. Then again, we just finished a Packard that's both. He's had it done now for 2 months and has near 100 miles on it. I couldn't be more happy for him. Does he get it in the mud and shit? Well no, and nobody in their right mind would either, but there's too much to that car not to drive it. He's also already got his 1st bit of damage to her...from the trailer!! Sometimes you can't win.

 

I hope everyone understands that bashing trailered vehicles isn't my intention here.

All of the things listed are things I look forward to with my rides, just wish some of the things didn't have a cost involved.

I am at my happiest when tooling down the highway in one of my rides, these are some of the things I wonder about on some of those long road trips.

So I suppose it is just whatever makes you happy.

 

You forgot giving a regular person a ride around the block (priceless).

 

Yes I can not wait to get ours to the point of going from point A to B and back to point A, hoping to have a running drivetrain by end of next summer, then let the good times roll & roll!!

 

Stopping at the gas station and having people ask you about your car.

 

The cool ass ride down some back country road , listening to the roar of your Mill as you pull up over a hill..cruising by a storefront with mirrored glass ,and looking at your self in the glass in your street driven, cool ass ride

 

Hitting a pot hole doing about 50!

 

I kinda got a new respect for the "show queens" guys/ trailer cars. At one of our popular Sat. night street meets, a couple of them actually drove their queens-a fantastic 57 Chev. convertible and a 61 bubbletop-to it. Word was together they had about 300K in them-I can believe it. This meet is held in a shopping center parking lot complete with soccer moms/kids, minivans, BIG pickups (Texas, of course), and rat cars of various descriptions. I thought it took a lot of guts to do that, hell-I get nervous in my daily driver there! One time a guy brought an original hemi Cuda-worth about 250 I heard.
Still, driving 'em and cussin 'em when they break or get broke is, to me, where its at.
cooger

 

don't forget the thrill of the ride

 

Or a polished tanker truck!


You forgot the thumbs up from the little kid in the back of the minivan!

 

How did I miss the checking out your ride while driving past the plate glass store fronts............................

Great addition.

 

And the leaky windshield in the pouring rain.

 

Ya gotta love the glass store fronts for a mirror... I just like the window down, arm out trying to find that sweet spot so your arm seems to float in the breeze.

 

Also the times you get to check your rear view mirror just in time to see the road workers/construction/or folks setting on their front porch abrubtly turn and point in your direction.

 

The only thing you miss out on when owning an old car and trailering it is...................................EVERYTHING!!!!!
I've heard all of the excuses (reasons) for trailering and aside from being broke down not one holds water for ME. You will notice I capitalized ME and that should carry the day for everyone. Everyone who participates in this hobbby/obsession has his/her own reasons for doing so and trailering or not is just one of the choices involved. Do your own thing and enjoy it. Just don't rag on someone who does it differently than you.
Getting a trophy for a 100 point restoration is about as boring as watching grass grow.............for ME. Getting out of my car at night with the odometer reading 3-500 miles more than it did in the morning puts a smile on my face. Ask Denise if she would trailer her car............bet I know the answer.

Frank

 

Blasting down the interstate while passing a long line of RVs towing show cars going to / or leaving a car show. Gary

 

Racing someone you don't know but can tell you are going o the same show on the highway.

 

I've always been a hard core drive the car guy and my truck has made several long distance runs across the country including pulling a 16ft Uhaul up here from Texas in 1977. I will still most likely drive the 48 anywhere it goes including the planned trip to Roundup in about three years.
But when retirement age gets closer (two years and one month to SS as of yesterday) we are thinking more about having a motorhome for several months long trips and a trailer to haul one of the rods to drive when we stop somewhere. Hit some of the "must do in your lifetime" events and travel in between events. Not trophy hunting or working at "keeping road rash off the rig" but being able to enjoy a long period of travel, exploring, and hitting events without going broke paying motel and restaurant bills daily.
I still never see myself as wanting to trailer one of my rigs to an event within an easy drive of the house as the drive from here is usually as much or more fun as the event.

 

i was at a recent Street Rod fest and a guys winch burnt out on his trailer, we sat and watched for a couple hours while they tried to fiqure out how to load the thing, He finnally grew some balls and drove it up, it took 2 minutes.

 

1) The call you get from a friend telling you that they heard from someone else that they saw your tattooed arm hanging out the window of your (* fill in your car) as you were tooling down the road at 75 mph a couple evenings ago in the middle of the week.

2) Just taking it for a ride, after you get home from work, to nowhere and back because you felt like it.

3) Driving to work on a Thursday morning with the sun in your eyes and realizing you left your sunglasses in the glovebox of your (* fill in your car).

* = In my case the * is a '62 Galaxie and a '60 Thunderbird

ps - I've peeked at my self in a few store fronts on occasion ;-)

 

After 300,000 happy DRIVEN miles since 1968, you got it right FRANK!!!!--------Don

 

The yearly repairs from "road rash" and rock chips (so what...no big deal).

Being recognized all over town as "the guy who drives his hot rod everywhere".

 

the priceless part is when you get on skinny pedal a little and they have one hand on the dash and look for something to hold on to with the other

and when you can tell the hot chick next to you would rather be riding with you than her boyfriend in his ricer or p.o.s.

 

I've read this entire post and honestly can't add anything. In over 19 years of doing this-never had anything on a trailer. Sam

 

How about the knowing nod or wave you get as you pass a fellow hotrodder (or someone on a motorcycle for that matter) You may not know them but you know we are all "family". Mine my not be pretty but the best awards come with the smiles and the "cool car" comments.

Trailers are fine for those who choose to do so but mine is the thrill of the road.

 

How 'bout leaving the motel at oh-dark-thirty to head home. You are doing about 75 on the Interstate and a car comes up and hangs on your rear quarter, then there is a FLASH! and the car motors on. Only two more days and you will be home. You smile still.

 

At my age it's when the hot slightly older gal gives you that sly "wish I was riding in your truck" look while riding in some guys BMW.