Before you can transport it you first have to get it in.
"Say Vern, I can't move the jack no more, can you start backin' the trailer up. I got everything else under control !"
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Before you can transport it you first have to get it in.
"Say Vern, I can't move the jack no more, can you start backin' the trailer up. I got everything else under control !"
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If it does not fit in the transporter I will just drive it home !
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" Honey, I will not be home tonight because I am sleeping here in the camper and I am on engine duty."
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"But I promise that the next trip we go on we can go golfing together."
Vern.
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"Vern" did not want to spend too much on his trailer and he made every inch count !
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Some FORD transporters during the fifties, sixties and seventies.
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These are two of my favorite race cars being transported.
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McLaren M20 at Mosport in 1972.
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1970 Boss 302 Trans Am Mustang. (After restoration )
(Ken Hyndman )
July 5th weekend. 1970. French F1 Grand Prix at Clermont Ferrand..
The McLaren Team transporter and crew as they prepare for the race after tragically losing Bruce a month earlier.
Dan Gurney, who kindly filled in while Denny was recovering from burnt hands at Indianapolis is at the rear with McLaren M14A # 17.
Denny Hulme had returned to drive the McLaren M 14D-Cosworth # 19.
Tyler Alexander is in the doorway.
The other car on the transporter is a McLaren M7D # 16 with a Alfa Romeo T33. 3.0 V-8 engine driven by Andrea De Adamich.
These were very hard times for the team but they bravely battled on and never gave up.
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More FORD transportation photos.
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I used to dread getting on the school bus at Kiwitahi but I think I was safer then than climbing on board some of these arrangements except the Porsche-Audi transporter !
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Awesome pics Ken,
Thank you.
The number 88 on the silver car is on the same angle as the ramp.
Neat Topolino, and when you see a real road going on they look so tiny.
They are the car version of the Shetland Pony and Shetland Dog
John,
Do you want me to try to contact the # 88 artist to come out and apply his skills to your Monaro ?
You could just park it on an incline in the driveway and he will take it from there !
It seems VW Kombis were a popular mode of transporter back in the sixties. Perhaps someone can explain why. It would not be for the handling or for speed !.
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Just in case you needed a support vehicle.
Ken- In the Hippy era, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers turned a Kombi into an Armadillo- I loaned Spagetti the details-looked impressive scuttling along the freeway . We dont need to mention what they were transporting in SoCal
I think some of these VW transporters were carrying loads a little bit more valuable than the Kombi !
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(Imagine finding this unattended in the parking lot ! A Williams FW 07 and a Lotus 49 well protected from the rain !)
(Note how popular VWs are in this photo. )
(Ken Hyndman )
And sometimes..........
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Here is a easier way of loading up.
https://youtu.be/28MRGe8dkx0
Roger,
Perhaps you could purchase and slightly modify this "Good ol' boy's" All Terrain Vehicle.
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Roger,
Then you could have something like this set up in your driveway one day !
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Or, here is another project.
1952 Studebakers.
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Transporter back in the day.
Now crouching in the desert in rattlesnake country.
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(Note the rear "suicide door" arrangement )
Ken H
Some transportation in the US.
1969 trailer of Dodge Daytonas.
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A great team and driver in the 1970s was the Wood Brothers and David Pearson.
This shows the 1973 Ford Mercury Montego always with # 21. Outside their humble shop in Stuart, Virginia.
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Ken- these Transporter pictures are absolutely brilliant, love the black/ white of Studes and Daytonnas.
in 1972 I nearly bought a 1970 plymouth super bird at the dealers in vancouver $4995 was the sticker price but they would do a deal. instead i bought a 1970 roadrunner for $2995. got that wrong
Terry,
I had forgotten about the Jim Clark connection with the Wood Brothers, so thanks for that reminder and again thanks for starting this thread as I have been having fun with it.
Cheers,
Ken.
http://sports.usatoday.com/2016/05/2...500-pit-stops/
i wil have a look Steve, but do not know how to post them
1959 Ferrari Formula One Transporter arriving at the track.
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1962. The same Ferrari Transporter arriving at Spa.
The # 9 Ferrari was driven by Phil Hill and finished 3rd.
The other Ferrari type 156 # 10 was driven by Willy Mairesse which I think was destroyed in the race when he collided with the Lotus of Trevor Taylor.
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Sory Steve I have looked, and can only find a photo of the car taken head on parked under a tree, and that is small and faded
I know they've been in another thread but some Kiwi racing car transport.
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Send it to me and I'll post it: theroaringseason@gmail.com
928,
Check this junkyard in Alabama. You might see your 70 Roadrunner in the more than 200 photos.
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As I have one of the oldest LHD Mini Coopers registered in the US, (Built in February 1962 ).
This transporter has to be my personal favorite.
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p.s. On another personal note my daughter and future husband are about to arrive and their wedding is next Saturday so until the action dies down you will not have to put up with my ramblings.
( Any tips for making a suitable father to daughter wedding speech ?)
(Ken Hyndman )
p.s. On another personal note my daughter and future husband are about to arrive and their wedding is next Saturday so until the action dies down you will not have to put up with my ramblings.
( Any tips for making a suitable father to daughter wedding speech ?)
Don't talk too much about cars.. talk about .. hmmm .. having never had to do that speech, not much help Ken H ..
I like this one .. Ken already posted the Utube clip with Cadillac FWD drivetrian and the sliding tilt .. well here is a conventional one ..
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I will not even mention the Chinese man who did not want to move to the United States when he found out that you can only have an election once every four years !