"Traditional" race car trailer.

38Chevy454 posted some pics a month or so ago of the single axle car trailer we bought for the BFD. Spent a whole $400 for her... brought it home and then spent the next five days hacking on it so the BFD would fit nice and comfy on her.

We added about 18" to the front of the 12" channel... inset the rear about 4" with a piece of 12" channel cut in half and grafted in (to clear the meats)... and then built the ramps to fold up "old school" style.

In addition we painted the rims white, got new tires... and completely replaced the tongue (the one the was in there was round tube with a floor jack grafted on upside down as a tongue jack)

Anyway, here it is:

 

'nuther shot:

 

Looks right to me.

The only thing that'd make it cooler is if it was being hauled behind an old long roof.

 

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True... or an old Ford or Chevy pickup from the 60's...

But my partner Tim has the '74 Stabbin' Wagon(TM) that we use to haul it local... besides, the chicks dig the van.

 

hi sam

 

****ing trailer queen...

 

yeah baby!!

 

Man I would feel SO much more comfortable with a dual axle trailer.....

 

I dig it.

 

it's trailerific!

 

I pull atleast 15000 to 2000 a year with a single ax and never had a problem. I do run light truck tires though. My cars are around 2000# and I do run 80mph+ most of the time. I like the trailer because it is light and does pull realy well besides it just look right

 

We bought extra heavy duty bias trailer tires... the car weighs a portly 1,680lbs... pulls great at 70mph.

But if we had a blow out... we might be screwed.

Sam.

 

i vote for candy red, make th ramps stow under the car, and maybe score some 37 ford taillights! make it ***y now!

 

I have pulled cars for years and it is the blowouts that are scary. I didn't trash the trailer at all. Knowing Sam and Terry's capabilities I am sure it is over built. I just said another axle would make me feel better.

Doug

 

Double axle or single axle - if you have a real blow out with a loaded trailer you'll be screwed either way.

When I picked up my F2 I had a blowout at 60mph. I did a 270 one direction, then 180 the other before I got it under control. Scared me pretty bad - my truck was only three weeks old and I was fairly sure I was gonna put it on it's roof. Kept it together, but barely.

FWIW Sam, it looks great and appropiate.

 

Sam, I lost the whole center out of my old trailer with the altered loaded. It was about 3 am on our way back from the NDRA Muddy Water Nats in Memphis. It shot a rooster tail of sparks about 30 ft in the air, but that was the only way that we knew we had a problem. No worries.

 

I think the BFD would look more traditional with a JEEP body

 

I have only had one blowout on my trailer and it was at about 70mph and was not to bad to hang on to. That one went cause I loned out the trailer and they damn near wore threw the side wall with somthing they were halling and I forgot to change it before I left. I have had blowouts on tandom trailers that were much more scary. You do need to keep better tires on a single though just cause of load facter

 

Elmo Rodge has the most traditional trailer ever! Single axle. Met Wayno last year on a HAMB relay he was going to north Texas to pick up a 36 Ford sedan haul it back to sunny Kalifornia!
Wayno, got that car built yet?

 

If anyone is old enough to remember the stock car races in the '50's and early 60's the pits were filled with trilers like the one you have Sam. Only thing is that most of them were really crude looking by comparison. They usually had a couple of hardwood 2X12's shoved under the car for ramps and most had a least a dozen repair welds in various spots where the structure had broken from misuse or poor design. It would have made yours look your look like an enclosed 18 wheel NASCAR rig by comparison.

Frank

 

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I like the way you can see the red white and blue peace sign through the spokes... Damn Rick Amado can make ANYTHING look good.
Sam.

 

nice ride - hey what does you car run in the 1/4?

 

Sam
Cool trailer, makes the car standout that much better.

What size axle are you running? the width & rating and is the frame 3" channel?

Very Inspirational

 

HI SAAAAAMMMM

 

That trailer pulls great, no troubles and can barely tell it's behind Tim's van. It was kind of a thrash to finish it, but it came out nice and definitely has a cool old-time look.

Now all I need to do is build that hitch for my 37 truck so we can pull it in style.

 

Did somebody say longroof?

Well here's a pic from Goodguys Des Moines show in 2001. Seemed to be a pretty well thought out trailer.

 

You might want to look at this page with the current Federal Highway rules for trailer lights and markings. The rules have changed.
Federal Trailer Lighting and Marking Regulations

A couple of guys I know who were hauling open trailers with old cars and parts cross country got stopped by the CHP/State Police in Indiana and in Arizona and were told that their trailers were not in compliance with current lighting regulations and were given BIG $$$ Tickets, with instructions to bring the trailer in to compliance immediately. Seems like a few states have a campaign to stop all the trailers they see that may not be in compliance, especially out of state trailers (or so my friends were told at nearby truck stops).

 

Is that the same for the US? That's a Canadian webpage.

 

Here are a couple typical period trailers