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Hello my name is Rey and I am the proud owner of a 2015 C7, finally after 20 years but I'm glad, this was the right one. I travel between Arizona and California but want to avoid the additional mileage on my C7, can someone please refer me to the proper Trailer for my Vette? As we all know our Vettes are so low to the ground
Are you looking to buy or rent?
Do you want enclosed or open?
FWIW, you can put a nearly any Corvette on nearly any trailer; even the cheap and dirty ones.
The most important ATTRIBUTE that you can't change is the track width of the trailer.
The most important ACTION is the loading and unloading. It ABSOLUTELY BAFFLES me when I see people that insist on loading anything & everything on flat ground. USE AN ELEVATION CHANGE to help you!!!! Back the trailer up to a curb, and drive the car/motorcycle whatever on/off from higher ground. Back the trailer down toward a ditch if that will straighten your approach angle. Drive the tow vehicle front wheels down toward a ditch which will straighten your transition. I see people building all kinds of contraptions to make it work, and then RIGHT behind them is a curb or elevation change that would have made it easy as pie.
There are a bunch of threads on this topic that you can find with a search.
If you go with an open trailer (whether rent or buy), I strongly recommend one with a plate on the front to protect the finish of the car. The back wheels of the tow vehicle are going to throw up all kinds of sand, grit, stones and other trash right on your paint job. See example at link.
Used to sell HD bikes and we always recommended either an closed trailer or one with protection for our customers if they planned to haul the bikes any distance at all. Saw many sad cases for those that did not listen to our advice.
Last edited by BladeSilver2015; Mar 22, 2016 at 11:17 AM.
The C7 Corvette is not a collector car! That said, there will be very little to gain keeping the mileage to a minimum in the near future. Fact is; your saving the car for future owners and absorbing the depreciation, too. A 2015 is already one model year old and has already lost thousands of dollars value wise. Might as well just drive it.
The C7 Corvette is not a collector car! That said, there will be very little to gain keeping the mileage to a minimum in the near future. Fact is; your saving the car for future owners and absorbing the depreciation, too. A 2015 is already one model year old and has already lost thousands of dollars value wise. Might as well just drive it.
As far as I'm concerned, if I'm going to be traveling, my car is going in my trailer. Doesn't matter if I'm going to an event with my 32 or going somewhere that I'd like to have the Corvette at the destination. It's not so much about keeping the miles down, it's that I travel long distance way more comfortably in my pickup that has all the stuff (cooled seats, auto ac, navigation,) and all the room to haul everything I might want while gone from tools to cleaning stuff to golf clubs.
Driving down the interstates is not a big highlight for me and just claiming I drive my Corvette down them isn't important to me. I've had an enclosed trailer for a while and while I haven't needed to stuff the Corvette in it yet, I will sooner than later. It's not about saving my precious collector car, it's about my comfort and convenience.
To the OP, an enclosed 24' trailer is what I have along with some RaceRamp extensions. I might mount a winch just to make loading easier.
If you want an open trailer, I found this by Nextrail with a dovetail and air dam, and it has worked out very well for me. With dovetail and 6' ramps it loads fine.
Basically any trailer that has the beaver tail built in will work. That being said If it is an open trailer: I recommend an additional set of ramps (6') that you put down on top of the other ramps to extend the length. This will get your angle needed to keep it from bottoming out. 1 Long ramp would be ideal, but it will be very cumbersome and hard to store. Even the tilt trailers, will need this extension in most cases to keep from bottoming out.
If you are looking at enclosed trailers, have them add the aluminum extension that is folded out attached to the ramp door of the trailer. and have them add the LARGE rubber stops to the top of the door, replacing the existing ones. (they will go from about 1.5" in depth to the 6-8" depth. The larger the better in my opinion.)
Additionally on most car trailers made today, they have been ordered with the swing arm axles. They can be mounted so they sit lower to the ground to begin with. The only problem with that is depending on the length of the trailer,(the longer the trailer, the more this can happen0 it can bottom out easier in the rear when going into some driveways parking lots. You can combat this by adding the casters on to the back of the trailer underneath.
Everything is a trade off, you just have to decide what works best for you.
I bought my 2016 as a track/touring car. I drive it to the track, track it, and drive it home. It's great.
My wife and I take the car Philly to New England twice a year and it can do 7 hours straight, and is as comfortable as any car I've driven.
After 20 years hauling a track car behind my pick-up, I can't believe why anybody would want to go through that hassle, but its your car... do what you want.
15 minutes loading a car into a trailer isn't much of a hassle to me. A plus for me was that I drove semis with 53' trailers for a few years. Dragging a 24' enclosed trailer is not much of a hassle either.
The C7 Corvette is not a collector car! That said, there will be very little to gain keeping the mileage to a minimum in the near future. Fact is; your saving the car for future owners and absorbing the depreciation, too. A 2015 is already one model year old and has already lost thousands of dollars value wise. Might as well just drive it.
Amazing. A brand new member asks for advice on a trailer and gets a lecture on how to use his car. And another "wise" member chimes in and implies that trailering his car rather than driving it is not logical. I will be surprised if we hear back from the OP.
Last edited by BladeSilver2015; Mar 22, 2016 at 07:59 PM.
I've towed my race car around on open trailer in several states. In N.C. and other states, you gotta have tie downs on each axle. That's four total. Also, license plate the trailer. Most states require that and almost all will do a traffic stop cause they say can't see your vehicle plate.
There's a slew of options. Here's my 16' all aluminum from a Bowling Green builder (no less) with my C5 on it, but works just as well for my C7 St'ray.
Trailer for C7
