Andy Fanshawe

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Nice mental picture there!
Anyway, I am cosidering trailering my show Camaro behind my 91 350 RS next summer, here in the UK. My Wife doesn't want to drive either of them, so it looks as if I will have to drive both!!

Anybody got any photos? Anybody foresee any problems?

Hope this is the right board for this.

Thanks.
Andy.

TekViper

i dont really see the point? u mean just to a carshow maybe? seems like you are implying trailoring it during daily driving.

Andy Fanshawe

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Yep, I mean car shows!
Trailering every day eh? Nice!

Sorry, I worded it badly.

Andy.

FLYNLOW92rs

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Although i've seen a thirdgen with a hitch on it before.....

I have never seen one pulling another one.....

Hitches aren't too attractive on the back of a thirdgen, do a search and you can find more information about people who do it on a regular basis.....

hrddrv

It may work but it would be hard on the tranny. They don't recomend towing anything over the wight of like 2 jet skis. And even that is a little much.

hotrod87camaro

82camaro

I would not do it. Unibody doesn't like to tow heavy stuff. You have no real frame to connect the hitch to.

IROZINCO

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You will find that the maximum tow rating for our 3rd gens is about 1200 lbs, accd to manufacturer. They were NOT designed for towing, it's hard on the engine/tranny/brakes AND frame. Small boats or jet-ski's like above. DON"T try this unless you wanna wind up towing one of 'em for REAL because you burnt something up!

EYEROCK89

Yeah, I posted a thread awhile back about his same sort of thing. I was going to use my IROC to pull my Harley. Only problem is, the only hitch you can get for our cars is a Class 1 sport hitch and the tow rating for those is no more than 2000lbs. Aside from that, to be safe, I was going to need to upgrade the tranny cooler and some other things. Like someone else mentioned, our cars just weren't built to pull anything.......except for maybe a few car lenghts on a mustang.

sbrice18fan

How about driving your show car and leaving the other at home? I have been to 13 car shows so far this year and I drive my car to every one of them. I have driven as far as 200 miles one way. To me that is the most fun, driving my car, the bugs will clean off of the front.

Diabolical

when i bought my trans am, i was going to rent a trailor, and tow it home with my pathfinder. when i went to get the trailor, they asked what i was towing and with what. when i told him, he said i couldn't do it because to tow a car of the trans ams weight, i would need a truck that's at least 4400lbs. i would trust my pathfinder towing a thirdgen 10 times more than my trans am or camaro.

Air_Adam

Mine was pulled engineless to my uncle's garage if that counts for anything...

Calderone

my 1982 s/e had pulled long highways and uphills
a 89 Formula a Fiero...a 87 Firebird ....several times
and no probs with the 2.8 and th 200...but you got to be sweet to pull

Kandied91z

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i wouldn't do it.....it would be very unsafe. i wouldn't even tow it with a small truck unless you really wanted to chance it and then i'd be sure to pick up the lightest aluminum open trailer possible.

i drive my car to all local shows but anything over 50 miles away it's very nice to be able to tow.

SLP IROC-Z

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wow i cant beleive im reading this. if u try to pull a 20ft car trailor with another 3rdgen on it behind a thirdgen ur crazy. or maybe ud like to fth wheel it, just take the hatch off.

irocbirdbuilder

No No, plus you're not supposed to haul a rear wheel drive car with the back wheels on the ground. Unless you mean liek a flat bed kinda trailer. The nice thing about mine is with the lowering it cant be even put up on a flatbed tow truck. They tried one time right after i did the springs and finally said no this cant be towed. Needless to say me and a couple buddies pushed it the 3 miles back home and up a hill at about 4 am to avoid the traffic. Some cop stopped us and i explained so he drove behind us with his lights on to keep the collisions down. I say take one over the night before or a few hours before then get ur wife to drive you back to get the other one.

Andy Fanshawe

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Thanks for all the responses guys! Not such a good idea after all then.
I suppose I have only got myself to blame for this. My 86 camaro is as chrome plated as you can possibly get. The thought of getting water (mud, bugs, salt....aaagh!) on it is torture to the brain!! My 350 RS is the one I drive in wet conditions (if i have to), but not the 86! Lol!
I may have persuaded my Wife to drive the manual 350 RS now after all these suggestions. Just the thought of our 2 camaros side by side at a car show makes me smile! This would be almost unique here in the UK!


Thanks again to all who replied.

Andy.
PS Awesome trailer Kandied91z.

Kandied91z

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thanks...it's a 26' and it's still pretty tight for room. here is a picture of the car inside.

SpeedCat86

That got me thinking....

Take a 2wd blazer or similar size pickup chassis , drop it as low as it'll go and then channel a camaro body over it. Paint it to match your show car, and then proceed to rule the car show. You'll probably get more attention if you leave the show car on the trailer behind the tow 'car'


Maybe a little too much effort.

EYEROCK89

Yeah, but it would be freakin cool to see.

mw66nova

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that'd be about as dumb as seeing a camaro on top of a truck frame goin mud-boggin...

EYEROCK89

Funny you say that. There is a guy in my town (small country town) that has a 79 Corvette body on a 4x4 chassis...looks odd seeing a vette 4 feet off the ground.

scottmoyer

Let's see...Camaro weighs approximately 3500#, trailer weighs maybe 1500-2000#. That's about 5000-5500# weight being pulled by a Camaro. My Silverado would do it with no problem, but no way a Camaro. Anyways, UHaul won't rent a car trailer to you if you are planning on trailering a Camaro or Firebird. They say that the front end is too low and will get damaged while loading and unloading. That's for those of you thinking about renting a UHaul someday.

Kandied91z

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that's if you tell them..... :lala:

both very good points. when i was looking for a tow vehicle i was checking out some of the more popular suv's because i really didn't want a truck but had very bad luck finding anything that could tow well. if a navigator, tahoe, escalade, etc. has trouble i doubt a camaro will. but hey, go ahead and try it....you might get lucky.

CrazyHawaiian

Bringing this guy back from the dead. So where can we get these Class 1 tow hitches? Anyone got prices? Are they hidden? Anyone have any pictures of the installed hitch? Any ground clearance issues?

I will soon be completed with my track only car, and it has no papers meaning its not legal to drive it to and from the track. Because of this, I will need to tow the car to and from the track. And because I dont have any trucks, it looks like I will be towing it with a Camaro. The Camaro I plan to use to tow is a 89 IROC-Z with a L98, TH350, and 9 Bolt rear. I dont plan to use a trailer, instead I will be towing the track car (5 speed in neutral) using a solid bar setup. Sorry dont remember the name of that type of tow bar, but I've seen other people do it so it should work alright. The towing will be majority freeway driving (45-55mph), 20 miles each way once a month, and tow load will be around 3200 pounds.

If anyone has any details I'd love to hear about it!! Thanks!!

JeffW

not to sure of registration laws on the island but here if its on the road with any wheels it must have plates and insurance.

jeff

BirdsofPray

This is true, but I've seen it happen. I saw a maroon Z carrying one a few weeks ago. Only quite memorable as I hadn't seen anything of the like before. To the car's credit it looked as if it wasn't much of a strain, going around seventy on the interstate.