I need to be able to tow my 90 Camaro behind my RV. Have any of you done this? All of the RV places say it can't be done. I know about a driveshaft disconnect and I know I need one not burn up the Auto trans but no one sells a means of attaching the car to the hitch. I came across a website were a guy fabricated the bracket himself for his miata, a car that is not supposed to be flat towed. If all else fails I'll just build this myself, but I'll be doing alot more research on the subject first. I was wondering if anyone here has been in this same situation? There are alot of people here, hopefully someone?

 

Before I bought my car trailer, I flat towed mine. Through the holes where the fog lights are supposed to go (removed for a race car), I fabricated tow bar brackets. They stuck out slightly but I wasn't building a show car. Safety chains ran under the spoiler to the frame.

Third gens are not the easiest things to flat tow because of the huge plastic front end. The bumper/frame isn't easily accessable to properly mount a tow bar.

Another option is a 2 wheel car dolley.

When taking the driveshaft off the diff, you can either tie it up out of the way but could still lose it if not correctly secured. The other way is to take it right out and get a spare tranny yoke to put back into the transmission to keep the fluid in. The yoke can be easily secured so it doesn't fall out.

 

Thanks for the info. The car will be towed all over the states so I'm going to install a driveline disconnect. Removing the driveshaft is not an option. Won't always have a place to do that.

 

I don’t get it, why not just get a cheap, 2 wheel vehicle dolly and back the car onto it? That fixes the driveline stuff and the attachment point hassle in one shot, probably for cheaper then figuring either of those out also…

 

sometimes there isn't the space for a dolly when you get to a rv park.

 

You'd probably lose the nose on a bump with the back wheels on a dolly.

 

Yes the front sits low enough as it is, with the back end off the ground it would sit rougly 2 inches off the ground. I like my bumper, its not bad looking

 

you'd be suprised... I had my TA towed back home that way once while I followed it and it didn't scrape once the whole way, and that was with a tow truck holding the back tires about a foot or so off the ground. I'd bet that that TA sat lower then 95% of the cars around here, it makes my formula with eibachs look like a 4x4.

If there's no room for the dolly, there's really no room for a camaro...

 

Well the girlfriend is convinced that it is the best way to do it. And for what its worth so am I. I'm going to have to get measurements and pictures of the undercarriage so I can draw some stuff up. Problem is the car is 1100 miles away right now.

 

Flat towing is the best way? Good luck in doing it safely without putting somethng through the nose of the car somewhere... the only good place to connect to would be the front of the frame rails that are pretty much behind the front bumper supports. The actual front bumper support isn't strong enough, and everyplace else there's too much stuff in the way.

If you're willing to do it backwards then you could probalby hide it pretty well with a little reativity, there's a nice, fairly strong attacement point roughly above each of the tailpipes...