History Have you ever used a trailer for tools & luggage when traveling?

I've seen it. It's nut's everything he brings. It's like a clown car but instead of clowns parts and tools and jacks and wheels just keeps coming out.

 

After our first trip to the LARS in 2001 in the roadster we came back with stuff piled in our laps and on the floor, so after that we traveled with a reproduction Mullins trailer everywhere we went. We bought signs, antiques and stuff along the way and even had room for some Deuce fenders from the swap meet. They sure can carry a lot of cargo and you never even could feel it back there. Come along for the ride.......

On the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur, California




Pigeon Point Light House in California on the Pacific coast......


On old Route 66 near Oatman, Arizona.......

On Route 66 in Hackberry, Arizona........


Somewhere in Oregon......

Way out in the boonies in Bedrock, Colorado.......


In the mountains of Colorado.....

At Bonneville.......

You never knew it was back there, even at 80 mph!

 

Many years ago the wife and I used to take a lot of trips on our Harleys. First an old 79 Super Glide with leather bags. Them bags didn't hold a hell of a lot, and I used to bungee cord every thing else we might need, including sometimes camping gear. I remember a guy rode through an event we were attending dragging a trailer with a for sale sign on it, and when he got parked, I walked over to check it out. While looking it over one of my friends, who was single at the time walked up next to me and asked what I was doing. I said well you can't imagine how much crap a woman wants to bring along, from extra underwear to a hair dryer, to what ever else she decided she couldn't get along without. So he says, "imagine how much shit she could bring along if you had a trailer"!

I have never hauled a trailer behind a motorcycle or a hotrod, we make do with the space available.

Now we do have a 35 footer that we haul behind our 3/4 ton chevy when we go camping with the grandkids, though.

 

I build these for sale to tow behind bikes trikes and cars. We towed one to test it out from Florida to Canada and back behind a Can-Am Spyder . 4400 miles in 22 days.

 

Why not?

 

Other than tipping over easily going around curves, that was a good, cheap idea.

I'm probably over-thinking this and taking away it's simplicity but...



If he would have used a long, flat bar for the tongue instead of a round tube, then when the bike leaned into the corners, it would have tried to twist the flat bar, counteracting some of the centrifugal force on the trailer.

He would have had to attached the bar vertically instead of laying it flat.

Instead of a ball hitch, maybe he could have used a hinge.

I don't mean to criticize the guy's idea. It got him there for free. But seeing it just got me to thinking out loud about motorcycle trailers and any other small, tall trailers.


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My first trailer was built from a model T box with a hydraulic lid, Fenders and Bumper to match my red 32 sedan. It went all over the US. Later I restored a steel Mullins to match another vanilla 32 sedan which I pulled for several years.

 

I've seen them behind T buckets & roadsters. not so much the bigger cars. HRP

 

I bought my repro Mullins when our girls were young and and did most of our traveling in a 40 Ford sedan but I haven't used mine in years and I have had to pass on a couple of good deals because a lack of space.

I was able to to get 2 rear deuce truck fenders in the back seat of the sedan a few years ago,along with everything else we already had with use.

I need to dig mine out of the barn and use it again. HRP

 

I haven't used our Mullins since we sold the roadster and I really miss traveling in a hot rod cross country. Sure, its usually hot and cold at times but you never get bored plus every mile is a car show. Just looking through my pics really makes me want to do it again but since we got our little Maltese Teddy, its just too hard to do with him. We did our Roadster Reliability Run out in the Black Hills of South Dakota every year before we moved to Arizona but it was a hassle with having to sneak him into hotels that weren't dog friendly. So now we have a motorhome, the motorized "dog house" that we take on our trips pulling the hot rod on a trailer, like our 12 state 6000 mile trip to Deuce Day Northwest in Victoria, BC and then across the northern states. Its nice to travel that way so you can stop and stay anywhere you want but it isn't much fun driving a 58 foot long bus and trailer. I never wanted to be Ralph Kramden!

Then (2009): Teddy (with goggles) and Jan by Sylvan Lake, in the Black Hills of South Dakota

 

That area around Sylvan Lake is beautiful. We were there one fall when the area got it's first snowfall. Mountain Goat and Bighorn Sheep were down out of the hills and along the road for the salt

 

Like you I sold my roadster several years ago and I miss it..someday! HRP

 

Not only do I not need to use a trailer for my stuff, my friends usually pile some of their stuff into Clarence when we travel.

 

Me too, Danny! If I could just get the "family" cars done first. The Fordor finished (A/C plumbing and wiring, fenders painted and mounted) and my 56 Chevy 2 dr wagon (all new glass installed and a '93 Camaro LT-1/700R4 swapped in), then I could get my Brookville roadster project done. Its painted and upholstered, so all it needs is the original chassis built with a 8BA Merc/T-5/Halibrand Q/C I have. Where can I find some ambition to get all this stuff done? Spend less time on the HAMB?

Our old roadster is in good hands with John down in Green Valley (south of Tucson), we paid him a visit last year and he said loves driving the car so much he sold his other street rod.

Now if I could just get this one done.