<VV> greenbrier question

[Rad Davis]

Yup.  Your friendly corvair vendors have standard class 1 hitches available 
that bolt to the bumper.  There were (more elaborate) class 2 and 3 hitches 
made, but I don't know if any is still available new.

As for suitability, I was towing a trailer with my Greenbrier last 
weekend.  It does very well.  Probably the most I've pulled was about 1500 
lb.  Properly equipped and prepared, they'll tow up to hitch class capacity 
about as well as anything else, though rather slowly uphill with a heavy 
load.  Brakes can be exciting with more than about 1000 lbs behind 
you.  Consider a shoe upgrade to a high temperature tolerant material.  My 
rule of thumb was always to load the van first, then put things in the 
trailer.  A heavy tow vehicle is a stable tow vehicle, especially when it 
has positive rear wheel camber when unloaded.

I'd have to say that Ken Hand is probably "the" expert at towing with a 
forward-control corvair, but there are plenty of other folks around here 
(like my father) who have done a lot of it.




At 10:55 AM 5/17/2006 -0400, Jon DeVos wrote:
>My first posting to the list.  I have a 1965 greenbrier.  Has anyone heard 
>of putting a tow hitch on a greenbrier.  I know we can do it on our 
>Volkswagen bus but I though a corvair would have more power.
>Jon
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