Homemade car hauling contraptions.

My picture link was screwed up before (above). If you missed it, here it is again.

Is that Mini cantalevered out over the rear axle or are there caster wheels inder the tow vehicle's taillights?

It just looks like the motorhome would wheelie.

914Driver wrote: Is that Mini cantalevered out over the rear axle or are there caster wheels inder the tow vehicle's taillights? It just looks like the motorhome would wheelie.

Weight in front of axle >>> weight behind axle. I bet the Mini weighs less than the body, wood paneling, PITA shower stall, uncomfortable bed, and shag carpeting that they removed from that location.

I've been considering getting an early 80's diesel firetruck and just using the hose bed as a car hauler. The scary thing would be driving up the ramps to that height.

mw wrote: I've been considering getting an early 80's diesel firetruck and just using the hose bed as a car hauler. The scary thing would be driving up the ramps to that height.

As have I and that comes up on the board occasionally. The rear end gearing of those turcks is also brought up alot. Not very highway friendly but I'm sure that could be taken care of. I've yet to investigate it.

Sometimes UHaul also sells dually cab/chassis units, like they took the box off. I guess one could lengthen the frame/driveshaft/etc and build a flat/sloped body. I see them at car shows.

mw wrote: I've been considering getting an early 80's diesel firetruck and just using the hose bed as a car hauler. The scary thing would be driving up the ramps to that height.

Taken from here
http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/race-car-haulers/page4.html

Now these are some scary ramps!

Or this: http://www.ecurieecosse.com/news_details.asp?newsID=7

jrw1621 wrote: Taken from here http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/race-car-haulers/page4.html Now these are some scary ramps!

Keystones!

Not just Keystone rims but Keystone rims with bias-plys.

subrew wrote:

That reminds me of these:

http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/03/Saab_9-3_Camper.jpg

Back in the mid 70's when we were going around in circles, I bought an old Ford 600 moving van for a couple of hundred dollars. I sold the box to a neighbor-it made a very nice storage shed-and built a deck for hauling our race car.Actually it was just a couple of ramps, open in the middle. We had low mounted toolboxes and airtanks that were fed from the air conditioning compressor, and I used a homemade winch, out of an old starter motor and flywheel, to haul the car up the ramps. It was pretty crude, but at the time it always drew a crowd and it was functional.We used that for three years, running at Lancaster and Holland(NY),Cayuga(Canada)and Busti(NY&PA). We hauled my LMS to Pocono for a race and a southern gentleman bought the car and hauler on the spot. We had to rent a car to get home, but it was worth it

If you're a regular at races here in the northeast USA, you've probably seen Charlie Greenhaus's Entropy Racing firetruck/transporter (below). I'm pretty sure he's added another car ramp since this shot was taken. Charlie rents Spec Racers and runs his own race series. Great guy.

~Entropy Racing~

And I have the same truck myself as a car hauler, just not finished yet.

My eyes are hard.

http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/race-car-haulers/csoldchevycarhauler.html

I do have a free saab 9000 at my disposal....hmm. Wonder if their auto tranny could handle the duty.

sachilles wrote: I do have a free saab 9000 at my disposal....hmm. Wonder if their auto tranny could handle the duty.

You'll note the sign says "SAAB Car Museum" so I wonder if they take really long trips with it ...

Is this deck carpeted?

http://public.fotki.com/VincePutt/drag_racing/race-car-haulers/butchlealcalifornia.html

Man, that site has some very cool stuff. I'm starting to think I should have bought an old truck instead of a trailer...

Wildest one I ever saw, And very sorry I didn't get pictures of, was a full sized, single unit moving truck about 30' long, with a 40' trailer on the back. Tag connection. Yep, 70' long. Probably a total beast to drive. This was for 2 dragsters, seen at Sunshine Raceway in St. Petersburg FL.

canoe?

DILYSI Dave wrote:

bravenrace wrote:

pinchvalve wrote:

Wow. I want that. Now.

I wonder what it is. It looks like it started life as a OTR long wheelbase big rig. Then lowered. The cab was dropped over the frame a fair bit. The top chopped. Custom flat bed. old school front clip and additional front fenders in the rear.

Okay, so Vikram 1111 WAS a canoe, but the pretty blue hauler looks like a 38-39 GMC bus that's been cut way back/down, and a beavertail flatbed added. In the mid 30's OEM's (like IHC and Mack and GMC...) thought it would be nice if all the passengers in a bus had a door, so they built a few with half a dozen or so doors down the sides. They usually had luggage racks on top, too. The forewards opening second door has me puzzelled, though. I don't remember seeing those in the pictures. Ah well...

MedicineMan wrote: My first job was working as a mechanic for a company in the white water rafting industry in West Virginia. We built several "chop buses" Basically you cut the body of the bus in half, move the rear door sheet metal up and build a wood flat bed on the back. The same concept could be done with a van or mini van provided it has a frame instead of a unibody design. Just be sure to build the bed seperate from the front body...like a pickup bed...I have seen them break in half from the stress of not having a flex point in the bed. I will try and find some pictures of the one we built...not trying to toot my own horn but it is still the nicest chop bus I have seen

Oh you mean something like this from, um "the white hillbilly"

Don't be turning my thread into a canoe fest!!!!!!