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HawkX66

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Road trips and towing
« on: February 04, 2016, 07:52:47 PM »
Who's done any serious towing with their Camaros over the years? Got any pictures? I crack up when I think about how much I did it with my 84 Z28 and 93 Z28. I drove from Mass to SoCal (Camp Pendleton) and back, Mass to Florida and back a few times.
The funny thing is, I still have that trailer that a girl in welding shop welded up for me 25+ years ago. Made out of a pop up trailer suspension. Made it a tilt and everything.

Somewhere in Texas or New Mexico.



I towed this jetski and my Harley back from Cali.

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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2016, 09:17:35 PM »
Dad used to pull trailers etc all the time with the green car..  I still have the hitch..


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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2016, 12:00:38 AM »
Don't have any pictures, but my very 1st Camaro was a brand new '76 base car that I purchase in Sep 1975 right after graduating from college for a grand total of $5,000 tax, title, out the door.  Nothing special, matter of fact the lowly 305 cid with all of the Rube Goldberg smog/pollution equipment, resulted in only about 140 Hp at the flywheel on a good day.  Talk about not being able to get out of its own way!  But in any event, it was new, it was a Camaro, and it was all mine.

Two years later I was moving from Houston, TX to Baton Rouge, LA and had all of my worldly possessions in a small U-Haul trailer being towed by my '76.  It was probably a ridiculous looking sight, but it worked.

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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2016, 08:25:25 PM »
Love it. Thanks guys. I was expecting to get some old and maybe funny pictures on this one...
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2016, 09:15:06 PM »
Dave?  were you hoping someone would post a pix of a '69 SS pulling a house trailer?? :)  or at least a large travel trailer?  :)
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2016, 10:19:49 PM »
Here is a pic I found online..




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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2016, 10:29:06 PM »
Only thing I ever hauled with the Z:
68 Z/28  born with: 302, drive line, etc..

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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2016, 10:38:22 PM »
Dave?  were you hoping someone would post a pix of a '69 SS pulling a house trailer?? :)  or at least a large travel trailer?  :)
Maybe. Might get sick seeing a 1st gen towing a house trailer though ;)


Here is a pic I found online..




There we go. Nice pic!


Only thing I ever hauled with the Z:
Well that goes without saying!
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2016, 10:50:24 PM »
Only thing I ever hauled with the Z:

:) :)  :)    Did you ever get yours 'caught' while hauling it??  :)
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2016, 12:51:28 AM »
Not in the act, several times I was "paid a visit"  Why I like it out here in the country. Lots of car guys around test-n-tuning.

Couldn't resist the pic, was a little high on lacquer thinner. Into the subframe.
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2016, 04:53:29 AM »


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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2016, 02:12:54 PM »
Wow, GM even marketed them for towing. Why buy a truck when you can install a bumper hitch lol
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Re: Road trips and towing
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2016, 02:47:00 PM »
Speaking of hitches, anyone reproducing them for the first gen??  Or are we stuck searching??