Enclosed Trailor
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
I drive my car on, and I use a set of boards to help with the angle. The Brimar I have has what they call a "beaver tail" that pitches the back portion of the trailer down, which helps with the loading angle.
Another way is to back the truck up on a set of ramps, this helps with approach angle as well.
But, I find 2 pieces of 2x10 that are about 4 feet long seem to do the job just as well.
Another way is to back the truck up on a set of ramps, this helps with approach angle as well.
But, I find 2 pieces of 2x10 that are about 4 feet long seem to do the job just as well.
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I drive my car on, and I use a set of boards to help with the angle. The Brimar I have has what they call a "beaver tail" that pitches the back portion of the trailer down, which helps with the loading angle.
Another way is to back the truck up on a set of ramps, this helps with approach angle as well.
But, I find 2 pieces of 2x10 that are about 4 feet long seem to do the job just as well.
Another way is to back the truck up on a set of ramps, this helps with approach angle as well.
But, I find 2 pieces of 2x10 that are about 4 feet long seem to do the job just as well.
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
All I could realy find was a Sale Video but you definately get the idea why we are using them. The ONLY blocks I use are to chock the tires 
Texas roll back in action
Texas roll back in action
I tried 4 hours straight one day trying to load my car on our flatbed trailer. Got to the point where i took the rear set of tires off the trailer so the a$$ end was on the ground but the nose of the car would still hit. Ended up getting the chainsaw & a board and cut up a pair of 4"x4" blocks. Jacked up the car and put the blocks on each side between the lower a-arms & the shock mount. Car goes right on the trailer with no dovetail and 4' ramps. -Redneck Engineering
Short ramps, no dovetail and tall, non removable fenders and you are pretty screwed. Then when you get into an enclosed since the ramp is the door and not open in the middle the nose drags at the point in the front. My enclosed has the low car package with a 6" dovetail and 3' extension ramps and it barely makes it.
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All I could realy find was a Sale Video but you definately get the idea why we are using them. The ONLY blocks I use are to chock the tires
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also can you open the doors, or will you hit the trailer fenders?
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here is the Trailer we use at the moment as our enclosed is on the way. But Have never had a problem with it and can even open the doors and the clear the wheels wells.
Dont know what kind it is though, we are borrowing from the trailer place where our trailer is ordered through
Dont know what kind it is though, we are borrowing from the trailer place where our trailer is ordered through
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Fenders slide up and off for easy access. I found one local and saved a ton. This one and the "Slone Slider" are made in Texas. So all the good deals are in Texas for them
I want to say in Texas they start at $3,200I have put lower Open road race Corvetes on this trailer and never even got close to scraping
Yeah go over kill on the tow limits. For example if the truck can pull 6800 pounds and full loaded your trailer is 6,000 then I would step up to a larger truck.
Aluminum helps a lot but even the open trailers are being stolled and choped up.
For enclosed a Halon fire supresion system is your friend with a camera and if you can run a line from the bottle to the inside of the truck.
See a fire in the trailer on the camera you can hit the Halon to buy you some time to get off the road and break out the hand held bottles.
To many people who have lost the car and trailer due to fires or end up with big money repairs.
Aluminum helps a lot but even the open trailers are being stolled and choped up.
For enclosed a Halon fire supresion system is your friend with a camera and if you can run a line from the bottle to the inside of the truck.
See a fire in the trailer on the camera you can hit the Halon to buy you some time to get off the road and break out the hand held bottles.
To many people who have lost the car and trailer due to fires or end up with big money repairs.
I also have a Texas Rollback -- just picked it up this year. I have a lowered, nose heavy T/A and I was able to get it on the trailer without any proplems. I've also put a Viper on it with no issues. They aren't cheap, but when if you put a winch on the front (as I did) you can get just about anything on there, even if it doesn't run!!! Not to mention the fact that when you want to unload, you don't have to start the car...just roll the bed back and let the brake out slowly.
Also, I towed mine with my '07 Tahoe 4wd and did just fine through the WV turnpike and through the 10 inches of snow in Chicago when I got there. Whatever you get though - get brakes on the trailer!
Also, I towed mine with my '07 Tahoe 4wd and did just fine through the WV turnpike and through the 10 inches of snow in Chicago when I got there. Whatever you get though - get brakes on the trailer!
I've had.. Texas rollback has been sold a couple times, and the folks there were ALOT less than helpful when I wanted info on the unit.
I paid near $4K w/ airdam. I've since added a winch, electric jack, all LED liting, and new DUPONT catalized paint.
