John Palmer
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Post by John Palmer on Jan 21, 2014 13:13:22 GMT -8
My Baby. 1964 Dodge Dart 1st year V-8, last year push button automatic tranny. Still looking for hitch. This has been hands down the best car I have ever owned and will NEVER sell it. Now if I can just get that hitch, we can pull our 63 Compact with it. U-Haul hitch center offered me a free hitch if I can get me and my car out west for a couple of days so they can design one. (The car even almost makes me look good in the pic! HA HA!)
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John Palmer
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Post by John Palmer on Jan 21, 2014 13:25:28 GMT -8
Soup, It's not hard to fab a nice receiver hitch for any vehicle. I'm sure with your building skills you can do it. The special sized and shaped Receiver Tube is a common part at any metal supply. They are all fairly generic with a two inch cross bar and flat plates designed to the bumper holes on your vehicle and the correct drop down to clear any obstructions. If you can tie a brace into something for the fore and aft movement, all the better. You need to do your basic design for the side plates on a piece of poster board, cut and tape until your happy, transfer it to a piece of aluminum sheet, then take it to someone to "flame cut" it out of 1/4" plate if you don't have access to a plasma cutter. Tack it all together with a small 110V MIG, trial fit, and take it to your Saturday buddy with a case of beer, and have him weld it up with his 220V MIG to finish welding.
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Post by bigbill on Jan 21, 2014 14:34:00 GMT -8
You can buy the hitch tube already made at Harbor freight Then the rest is easy to fab. I built the one the that is on my 41 Plymouth. Years ago they didn't sell bolt on class IVs you bought the tube from Reece and built the rest. Then you had to set the equalizer head at the right angle and height for the hitch you built and weld it to the stem.
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soup
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Post by soup on Jan 21, 2014 15:13:36 GMT -8
yeah, my weekend buddy and I were supposed to get together this past summer. Too bad I was so busy doing other peoples trailers. I never could afford the free time to get over there. I have 2 hitches here we are going to slice and dice the two will make one. All we needed to do was make 2 cardboard side panels (for stencils) with proper drop down and we would have it. Then a little torch cutting, grinding, fabricating and welding on the two old hitches I have and BAM, trailer hitch. The ones back in the day just bolted to the bumper and the spare tire well. I'm making ours to come down from the frame tubes and just below back valence panel. Hopefully will have more time to myself this summer for hitch and repairs on our 63 Compact. We want to camp again this year. I will finally have a real job and will be able to have time to myself for a change. (besides snow days) I still thought it was cool that U-Haul wanted to make me a freebe so they would have designs to sell more of them.
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Post by kto17 on Jan 21, 2014 15:57:43 GMT -8
They also make hitch kits for things like RVs that the cross tube is not welded to the vertical steel that bolts to the frame so you can choose the width and then weld.
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Hamlet
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Post by Hamlet on Jan 23, 2014 21:27:34 GMT -8
My Baby. 1964 Dodge Dart 1st year V-8, last year push button automatic tranny. Still looking for hitch. This has been hands down the best car I have ever owned and will NEVER sell it. Now if I can just get that hitch, we can pull our 63 Compact with it. U-Haul hitch center offered me a free hitch if I can get me and my car out west for a couple of days so they can design one. (The car even almost makes me look good in the pic! HA HA!) Man, Soup, that is way cool. As much as we'd love to have a vintage tow vehicle, unless we find a couple hundred grand (to buy the empty property next door) and a spare garage (to put on said property), something like this is most certainly NOT in our future.
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txoil
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Post by txoil on Jan 24, 2014 4:52:47 GMT -8
This is (WAS) my 1960 Chevy Impala Sport Coupe. I never got to finish it and my ex wife made it vanish in 1998, but this is the tow vehicle I would want to tow Tallulah Belle with.
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Post by topper on Mar 3, 2014 7:39:37 GMT -8
I am hoping to have my truck ready for towing by summer
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ben
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Post by ben on Mar 3, 2014 8:26:47 GMT -8
this was going to the lynden rally in washington state a vew years ago. been back every year its one of the bigest in the state
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Post by bigbill on Mar 3, 2014 9:33:30 GMT -8
Ben that makes a nice looking rig. We had a 1960 ford truck years ago that hauled a 12' cab over camper and towed 24' cabin cruiser. we put 300,000 miles on it in ten years. Looking back on it it was a good old truck I painted it Carribean Turquoise with a White top. It would get about 4 to 5 miles to the gallon, but gas was cheap back then. Traded it for a chevy with coil springs on the back and found out real quick that was a mistake. But after adding a set of very heavy duty helper springs and dual HD shocks it ran almost 200,000 with the same load. Then changed jobs and havn't had the money or time to travel that much since. Now retired and can't afford to drive across the street.
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Post by MarthaS on Mar 3, 2014 10:12:47 GMT -8
Here is our tow vehicle.
And trailer.
Some day we'll actually be able to get her out of the garage. Damn snow!!!
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ben
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Post by ben on Mar 4, 2014 15:07:47 GMT -8
this would look good but i dont think i want to try it.
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ben
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Post by ben on Mar 4, 2014 15:37:14 GMT -8
i have towed with this if iam not going to far , it likes gas to much, might take it to roslyn this year if fuel dosent get to high.
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Post by kto17 on Mar 4, 2014 17:46:51 GMT -8
this would look good but i dont think i want to try it. Damn Ben, hoarding some classics. I'm drooling right now. 69 Mach 1 and a 78 or 79 4x4. Two of my favorites. I'm not activity searching but on the lookout for a 78-79 full size Bronco.
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