Any Deuce owners have a trailer hitch?

I've had a old gl*** Mullins trailer in the barn for the last 24 years and used it a lot when I had my old 1940 sedan and the kids traveled with us

I'm thinking about adding a trailer hitch on my '32 sedan and looking for ideas or photos of what you guys have on your Deuce. HRP

 

I would be interested in looking at what shows up.Thinking of one on my sedan as well.

 

I double walled my rear spreader bar and changed the flanges to 3/8 thick. They are hidden behind the splash aprons. I can pull anything I want to within reason.

 

Got any photo's? HRP

 

There was a street rod shop at the Frog Follies selling rear spreader bars with the hitch made into them.Looked very nice.I did not get a picture or remember the name of the shop.Maybe a google search would find them.Sorry for not enough info.

 

Trailer hitches are ugly. Why would anyone put one on a hot rod in the first place? Leave your hot rod home, take your RV.

 

In the east, it is getting popular to camp overnight at the 2 day hotrod shows.


I put a thick wall pipe in place of the spreader, and will mount a hitch under that.

 

My spreader is covered by the box. It is 2" 1/4 wall square tube with 2 bosses welded in to bolt on a receiver style hitch.

 

Because I tow a tear drop trailer sometimes and they can be hidden and out of site.

 

American Stamping (ASC) makes a rear spreader bar with removable hitch built in. Not noticable when the the hitch is removed. Rather pricey, but might give you some ideas to build your own.

 

Maybe because they have a sedan and have 3 grandkids kids in the back seat if you gotta know!

Why respond to this thread and act like a ***?,,HRP

 

Don't know what you're talking about. If you don't see one, I guess it's okay. But, I have a right to my opinion. I don't believe I am acting like an ***. My thought was on the looks of a traditional hot rod.

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" Real hot rods don't have fenders "

 

A friend of mine has a nice hitch on his 32 3W. He made up a heavy plate/arm that bolts up to the rear crossmember where the stock spring would be. It runs from there hugging the gas tank and then up to join a heavy angle iron which runs behind the bumper bar and is fastened at the bumper irons on each side. A receiver tube is welded to the arm/angle iron which accepts the small style hitch insert and ball.

He uses it to tow his Mullins gl*** trailer that we finished up just a couple of years ago after we finished the car itself. By the way, he is 81 years old and saw the possible need to carry his "Rascal" in something besides a basket on the back. Trailers like the Mullins can carry a mess of stuff and pull like they aren't even there.

 

OK to have a opinion,we all have them but I wasn't taking a poll to see who likes them or not, and your comment above was totally uncalled for! HRP

 

Why would anyone want to leave their Hot Rod at home ?

Later, Mark

 

i've been thinking about putting one on my `36

a friend with a `32 roadster had one with a hitch like Pasadena described , worked well for many years

 

Steve ****an had an article in one issue of TRJ about pulling a trailer across the country with his roadster. Seems like Brizio set it up for him as no one else would touch it from what I recall.

 

Flat towed another 32 ch***is to KY

Hamb article about it: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=2686

Was in TRJ also

 

Originally Posted by Bobbykid's32
Trailer hitches are ugly. Why would anyone put one on a hot rod in the first place? Leave your hot rod home, take your RV.

Because sometimes you just ain't a ****in smart*** and want to tow something...........and If I had a 32 it would have a hitch on it.......

 

A little hard to see here, but I made my spreader out of heavy wall tubing with thick flanges. I used a chunk of angle to mount the actual hitch and the flip up license holder from one of those cars with the gas filler behind them.
So for I have only used it for a bike rack, but it has gotten lots of use like that and work well, hidden when not in use. Hopefully one day I'll build a teardrop to tow behind me.

 

That looks clean crusty nut. Can u post a pic of underneath?

 

I did this one for my 32 =) More about it in my thread.

 

The HAMB is a special place where we help each other and communicate ideas. Danny asked for ideas, not your opinion. Sometimes its best to keep your opinion to yourself and either read the thread and learn something or move onto something else.

Wouldn't you rather drive a Hot Rod cross country rather than a boring RV?

Two of my Deuces have trailer hitches because they are "driven" Hot Rods that do pull trailers many thousands of miles (at least 20,000 miles!). My roadster has pulled my gl*** Mullins trailer to LA from South Dakota three times out of necessity. After my first trip to the LARS I learned that I needed more space to haul stuff back so I've pulled my Mullins every time after that first trip. My Deuce IS my RV!



My Deuce pickup was purpose built as an RV hauler, that being a restored 13' Burro camper. This one even has complete equalizer hitch which was originally used for pop-up tent campers behind small cars but it is not shown in this pic.



This is the hitch on the Deuce roadster. It is heavy wall tube with a thick plate insert that has been inserted into the pipe and welded in. Then the hitch plate bolts to that with two 1/2" bolts. I think the Mullins may weigh in at about 1000 to 1200 pounds when full (I've never weighed it).



The hitch on my Deuce pickup was built a bit stronger to handle pulling the 1500-1700 pounds of the Burro camper. It was again built of heavy wall tubing with heavy side plates that extend into the rear frame horns as far as possible (almost foot or more) with an adjustment bolt on the end that is tightened to hold it from putting all the stress on where the spreader bar bolts on and move the leverage as far forward as possible. It has a 1 1/4" receiver that bolts into a thick welded insert in the spreader bar with 1/2" bolts that also extends forward under my fabricated 16 gallon fuel tank and up to a removable mount that goes into the bottom of the rear crossmember that the shocks mount to. This triangulates the hitch and takes some stress off the rear of the frame rails which is the weak link in a Deuce frame. A equalizer hitch originally used for pop-up tent campers helps take some weight off the rear springs. It actually smooths out the ride of the stubby pickup and tracks down the road straight as an arrow. I should probably put brakes on the trailer but the 12" Lincoln's with Buick drums seem to handle it very well.

 

If you are only pulling a Mullen's, you don't need a heavy cl*** III receiver hitch. I made mine for my old 34 P/U using a chrome tongue from a flea market commercial hitch suspended from the spreader bar (home made not Ford) at the rear but I extended it up to the rear spring U bolts. Four places to spread the load. I was pulling a tear drop camping trailer about the same time that you were.

It was not huge and distracting.

 

Jerry,,I appreciate you taking the time to post all the photos.

Really creative solutions to adding a hitch to a car that is not the easiest to do so.

I like the idea of the hitch being almost unnoticed when not in use. HRP

 

I really like the one Badgersb posted on the Deuce board. http://www.deuceslimited.com/index.php/topic,1213.15.html

 

At the '12 Syracuse nationals there was a beautiful blue woody's that towed a matching woody's trailer. The hitch was designed to be covered by a spring loaded license plate door, similar to the older cars that hid the gas tank cap. When in use, the plate laid flat under the hitch. Simple and clean.

 

You aren't suggesting that we tow or trailer our hot rods with an RV are you? That's just wrong!

 

Great thread !!! I belong to the WBCCI, and a past president of the Akron Ohio Unit, I plan on getting a little Airstream, and towing it behind my 40.

A few years ago while at an international Rally, I was parked in the vintage section, and in pulled a couple of chopped Mercs towing, and a few others. All I could say was WoW!!