Sketchiest Tow Load?

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I’ve subjected my Eagle to some pretty rough-service towing for a 30-year-old midsize wagon, including a U-Haul trailer across the country, and a loaded tow dolly through the mountains, including taking off from a clutch-roasting dead stop on a straight-up-and-down incline. But since Eagles are unkillable, it has survived its towing ordeals just fine. Not sure I could say the same for this poor overloaded Miata, squatted down like a lowrider under an overweight and precarious payload. Good thing an airplane fuselage and lumber aren’t the heaviest things one can haul, but it looks like they’re taking a toll nonetheless. Via ThereIFixedIt.

Ever towed or hauled anything sketchy in your ride? How did it hold up?

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Posted at 10:58 am in Jen Dunnaway, Mazda, Miata, Towing, Trailers

Comments

1sexylexy
Sep 8, 2010 at 6:02 am

Ive been mid reno in my house for a while now and all i have to haul supplies in are my wifes IS250 and my IS300….no trailer. I always feel like a fool in the Home Depot lot loading wood through my ski hole, leather protected of course.

GTwildfire
Sep 7, 2010 at 5:35 pm

I decided to build an 8′ x 11′ deck in back of my house. I took my ’90 Toyota Previa to the lumber yard and loaded it up with planking and all lumber for the job. No idea how much weight but it was a lot, the van rode like a tank back from NJ to PA, no problem.

88eurotrash
Sep 7, 2010 at 2:49 pm

I have made several flat tows with our old celicas, one great example is I had a 91 ford ranger that the engine died in, and a 72 celica that was rusted out, I cut up the old toy and stuffed it in the bed of the truck. then took a tow bar and hooked the truck to the back of our 79 celica and towed the whole thing in for scrap metal recycling (pictures are available)

Idefix
Sep 7, 2010 at 12:45 pm

He should have put the wing perpendicular to the trailer or on the fuselage, a bit of lift would have helped that suspension Rear wheels are angled by quite a bit

Steve Little
Sep 7, 2010 at 12:02 pm

Well I don’t remember any really bad loads I’ve seen in person other than 2 or 3 times where people had a bunch of jumk in the back of a truck that was piled almost as high as the cab of the truck if not taller. But I do remember once when I was on one of the main roads here in town and getting to the intersection where you go on the other main road, well someone didn’t secure a boat and the boat fell off the trailer onto the road. It wasn’t a small little boat either, I’d say a 26 footer as a guesstimate, I think it was one of those smaller offshore fishing boats. It was sitting right in the middle of the intersection to. One part of me wanted to feel bad but the other part was laughing my ass off because you can look at them and jsut tell they half assed it so they deserved it. You could tell because they were towing it with a really old beat to hell dump truck and the guys were all ragity looking that didn’t look like they knew one thing about securing any kind of load.