Flatbed towing your vette......
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Le Mans Master
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From: Custer SD
Flatbed towing your vette......
When I first purchased my second vette, I had it flatbedded home. The tow truck guy was good, and he was the only one who his company let tow vettes. One minor boo boo which I caught in time was that he was about to hook up the rear chains to my rear leaf spring. I informed him that these were plastic, and not metal. He didn't believe me at first and I can understand how he could have mistaken them for metal since they're black. I had him hook the chain to something less breakable. FWIW.
Burning Brakes
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Re: Flatbed towing your vette...... (Romeo Barrera)
That was a good catch!
BTW, I'm tearing my 85 down and rebuilding it and I've noticed that it has tie-down hooks welded to the frame on all four corners (just to the "inside" of the wheel, meaning behind the fronts and in front of the rear wheels). I wonder if this is standard on all C4s?
Dan
BTW, I'm tearing my 85 down and rebuilding it and I've noticed that it has tie-down hooks welded to the frame on all four corners (just to the "inside" of the wheel, meaning behind the fronts and in front of the rear wheels). I wonder if this is standard on all C4s?
Dan
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Re: Flatbed towing your vette...... (Romeo Barrera)
There are slots in the front and rear fram rails for the chains to be secured.
You don't use the Big hooks but the small "T" hooks.
You don't use the Big hooks but the small "T" hooks.
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Re: Flatbed towing your vette...... (danno85)
That was a good catch!
BTW, I'm tearing my 85 down and rebuilding it and I've noticed that it has tie-down hooks welded to the frame on all four corners (just to the "inside" of the wheel, meaning behind the fronts and in front of the rear wheels). I wonder if this is standard on all C4s?
Dan
BTW, I'm tearing my 85 down and rebuilding it and I've noticed that it has tie-down hooks welded to the frame on all four corners (just to the "inside" of the wheel, meaning behind the fronts and in front of the rear wheels). I wonder if this is standard on all C4s?
Dan
