Six second hiway hauler

[zeke]

Very bizarre to see a drag car hauling a trailer! Impressive accomplishment, reminds me of "run what ya brung" or "trailered cars suck". Great video if you have 9 minutes to kill.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GQxXT0BpB4

[bugdewde]

11 mpg........
Damn, my Jeep Rubicon barely gets 12 mpg and it only runs a 39.58 @ 46 mph.

[monzabug350]

Nice vid,If you pick up the latest issue of Hot Rod (the one with the outrageous 34 on the cover) there is an article about the fastest street cars in it and it will make you go HHHHMMM!! Must be nice to have the money to build something like that!!!(HHHHMMMM)

[rpoz-29]

No where near as fast, or cool, it reminds me of a story I heard. A friend from North Carolina told me about taking his 383 Road Runner to the strip. It was a local track, in a largely agricultural area, and would open on Friday mornings for the shift workers at the local DuPont plant to race. Anyway, one of his friends showed up in a Chevelle towing a small livestock trailer with hogs in it. He was on his way to sell them and stopped by to watch for a few minutes. After a little coaxing, he dropped the trailer, made a mid 12 second run, (beating my friend handily), hooked up his trailer and went on about his business.

[monzabug350]

Anyone remember seeing a youtube vid about a ratty looking p/u with a camper that kicked ass on about every thing put up against it??

[zeke]

The Farm Truck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuGNMOHIy4

[monzabug350]

Yeah..that one..thanks zeke!!

[Sunula66]

Hey Zeke, Kool thread!
I can at least relate a little to this, on my "Garage" pics, I show my 9C1 Caprice pulling my Sunbird on the open trailer pulling my second trailer. I used to do this on occasion from the Grand Bend area to the Kitchener area when going to a show and needing to transport extras along and dropping off the smaller wagon at my son in law as we built and shared the smaller trailer. I would always pull out and pass other traffic, especially on the 4 laner between New Hamburg and K.W. and sit and chuckle as my Ole Cop car an two trailers would go rumbling past to the shock and amazement of other drivers lol. As my cop son in law would laugh, he told me that it was such a grey area that it wasn't worth the trouble to pull me over. The Caprice was built on a 1/2 ton chassis and the combined units were under 9000kg.s the Caprice has larger axles than the GM half tons and are one size built specific for that vehicle only and do not interchange with anything else..(found out when I towed the Sunbird to Alberta) pulling out and powering past other cars was a blast with one car on a trailer but with two trailers, just blows'em away, even more fun when standing on it and pulling away from the lights and leaving the 4 bangers behind, now that's torque!