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There have been a ton of great posts here and I keep thinking I need to try something, anything...I bought a Maisto U haul trailer (about 1 inch wide and 2 inches long) that had dual HO size wheels. I pulled it behind an off the shelf lighted NASA streets van and the plastic tires kept falling into the cracks where you enter the wide transition curves of streets roadway.

 

I found a set of tires and wheels in the parts box and went to work. The results are in the video. It bumps along at different places, but I decided I liked a little action.

 

Thanks for the inspiration, ideas, and posts on the Forum!  Terry

 

 

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O come on!  Of course Lee would spot this thread!   Excellent!

 

'Streets vehicles will pull a trailer, boat, etc. nicely if it is kept light = up to about a third their weight is fine (2-3 ounces) is no problem.  It adds a lot of fun.  I have a section in my book about that.  The earliest K-line versions of the panel van actually had that tab on the rear bumper pre-drilled for a trailer hook.  

 

Larger trailers need flanged wheels but smaller, lighter ones will behave themselves as long as their track is not such that both wheels can fall into the flange grooves at the same time.  Here is a photo of some of the trailer stuff I talk about in the book.

 

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The vintage truck will actually pull quite a lot of trailer if you weight down the load area.  This lightweight plastic trailer is about the largest it carries without significant weight added above the rear axle (in the form of some load, etc.). big trailer

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Thank you very much for the compliments everyone. However, Lee is the master craftsman at this!

 

Ed. Point taken. I used the easy route yesterday since the van was ready to go with a trailer hitch hole already in place. However, I didn't sleep much so I now have a sedan with hitch towing the trailer!

 

And I'll be buying Lee's books to learn all I can. Terry

 

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Originally Posted by EastonO:

Thank you very much for the compliments everyone. However, Lee is the master craftsman at this!

 

Ed. Point taken. I used the easy route yesterday since the van was ready to go with a trailer hitch hole already in place. However, I didn't sleep much so I now have a sedan with hitch towing the trailer!

 

And I'll be buying Lee's books to learn all I can. Terry

 

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Oh, that is so cool.  Haven't you really seen exactly that so many times on the street?

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