Towing with your C5
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Towing with your C5
Looking at towing my motorcycle with my 02 C5. There is already a hitch designed for the car professionally installed on the car. The previous owner use to tow a small trailer to car shows with his equipment that he used for photograghy and setting up the car for show. The trailer that I will be using is set up to tow the motoercycle only. Basically a rail with tie down points and thats it. What are your thoughts and suggetions. I really would enjoy traveling to the mountailns and having as far as I am concerned the best of both worlds to cruise around while there.
Thanks,
Greg
Thanks,
Greg
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I've seen pics of owners towing trailers, personal water craft, etc. They report no problems. That said, my owners manual states the Corvette was not designed for nor intended for towing a trailer. That's good enough for me not to do it.
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If I could afford a matching Sebring Silver Paint job on my Seadoo XP I would have already towed it to the lake! Keep the weight down and you'll be fine! Under 1K
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So the entire time you are towing this bike around, you are missing out on the intended experience of driving a corvette. You might as well put the bike in the back of a pickup and drive.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
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You Know what, some of these guys would tell you if you had a tank and it didn't come from the factory with a trailer hitch that you couldn't tow anything with it. I had a 63 split window fulie in 1969 and towed a motorcycle in an enclosed trailer from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Dallas, then on to Denver, Colorado, stayed there several months, and went onto Chicago, it had a home made trailer hitch and believe me I didn't baby the car or cut it any slack, and it never missed a beat. I can tell you first hand that 63 was in no way the quality car a C-5 is. Go for it, and enjoy the car and use it any damn way you desire. 
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Don't think much out of the box, do you? Not being a smart a$$, just think that if we didn't ever try things that people or print says it won't work, where would we be in this world today. Just think, the F-4 was proof that if you give a brick enough power even it would fly. Thanks for your input.
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Don't think much out of the box, do you? Not being a smart a$$, just think that if we didn't ever try things that people or print says it won't work, where would we be in this world today. Just think, the F-4 was proof that if you give a brick enough power even it would fly. Thanks for your input.
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Don't think much out of the box, do you? Not being a smart a$$, just think that if we didn't ever try things that people or print says it won't work, where would we be in this world today. Just think, the F-4 was proof that if you give a brick enough power even it would fly. Thanks for your input.
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) Enjoy the Vette and the bikeAs for the point about the F4. I have 2000 hours proving that fact
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I knew some one here would have a personal relationship with the F-4. Use to live just outside an airbase in NC and they had F-4's stationed there. Now working in the aviation industry I can appreciatethe engineering and raw power they were built with. Spent some time at Brize Norton with the C-17's a couple of years ago, I'm sure you know where that area is in the Cotswalds. Thanks for your service and your reply.
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