<VV> new car for me - towing - beating a dead horse

[Geoff Johnson]

HA that would be in a nice world.  Last time I actually moved a car via 
U-Haul the cost was ~400$ for a flat bed trailer.  That was one way from 
Dallas to Albuquerque.  I tried to get one locally to trailer my friends 
Torovair across town when the transmission blew out in it.  We did not want 
to tow it with the special for Corvair tow bar we have that bolts to the 
bumper holes.   Then all the Uhaul places would not let us tow a Corvair. 
So we said we were towing a Toronado ;)  Then they would not let us rent 
the trailer because  their mangled wiring harness for the stoplights on the 
trailer would not match the ones on our tow vehicle.  Ended up paying a 
towing company 60$ to have them flat bed it correctly about 10 miles.

Wasn't it Alan telling horror stories of alignment shops holding up a 
wrench to the car to look like they were doing something but not actually 
adjusting anything?    I have alligned many Vairs with my homemade jigs 
that took 1/2 hour to make.  Drive wonderfully.

Moral: People think of alignment as this mystical scary process.  In all 
actuality it is really simple with simple tools.  Hardest part is dealing 
with old mangled rusty threads on tie rod ends!

-Geoff Johnson




--On Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:19 AM -0700 Frog Princezz 
<media_diva at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 Rent an auto
> transporter not a dolly from u-haul for about $50 and be done with it!