This is one lucky guy!
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But it all comes back to this.....cinching down a car on a trailer isn't something you take lightly. You do it right to begin with, and check it periodically on the trip. I've had trailer straps develop a small amount of slack in them before....stop every couple of hours and check them.
This has got to be the luckiest man on the planet.
This has got to be the luckiest man on the planet.
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Although he may have just used up all of his luck. 
But it all comes back to this.....cinching down a car on a trailer isn't something you take lightly. You do it right to begin with, and check it periodically on the trip. I've had trailer straps develop a small amount of slack in them before....stop every couple of hours and check them.
This has got to be the luckiest man on the planet.
This has got to be the luckiest man on the planet.
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This guy got lucky. He didn't know what he was doing and he got away with it.
I've seen more than one car and trailer come off the tow vehicle out on the highway.
People buy this stuff and don't have any idea how to safely use it.
I've seen more than one car and trailer come off the tow vehicle out on the highway.
People buy this stuff and don't have any idea how to safely use it.
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X1000GCWR minus weight of tow vehicle, passengers, luggage, and fuel = what you can safely tow.
There are a handful of half ton pickups that would have been at their limit here. Car and trailer were probably better than 4500 lbs.
Example: Truck has GCWR of 11000 lbs. Truck, passengers, fuel and luggage together weigh 4600 lbs. You have 6400 lbs you can tow safely. If the Vette weighed 3500, and the trailer 1500, you'd have a 1400 lb safety margin. You'd be ok.
Here's the kicker....you deduct 10% right off the top if you're towing in mountainous terrains or high elevations with a gas engine. So now your truck has 9900 of GCWR. Deduct out the 4600 pounds of tow vehicle and the 5000 lbs of car and trailer, you are now at 9600 lbs.....and are marginal with only 300 left of capacity left over. Marginal = potentially dangerous in the wrong situation.
Getting a load moving is one thing.....getting it stopped or correcting a sway is another. It's a very sick feeling if the tail starts to wag the dog.
Towing a Corvette on a trailer with a Lincoln Continetal is not only dangerous, it's probably illegal too. He could have been held criminally liable had someone been injured or worse.
Last edited by Frizlefrak; Mar 27, 2012 at 08:02 PM.
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Sounds like we have about the same luck.
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Mine would have gone careening into opposing traffic, killed a bus full of nuns, and the church would have sued me for my entire net wealth.I would strangle the driver. On the spot. And I'd make damn sure he didn't pollute the gene pool any further.
