<VV> Stupid Towing Tricks

[Vairtec Corporation]

In the late 1970s I was offered a 1961 Monza coupe, Fawn Beige metallic 
paint with matching interior, 80-hp, Powerglide.  All I had to do was go 
to the parking garage in Manhattan where it was and tow it home -- it 
had broken down in the parking garage and the owner was fed up.

Being young and stupid (I am no longer young), I decided that the cool 
thing to do would be to tow this car home with the identical 1961 Monza 
coupe that I was driving at the time.  So I borrowed a 
clamp-on-the-bumper trailer hitch, and a clamp-on-the-bumper tow bar (I 
did not yet own my own tow bar) and went to midtown New York City on a 
weekday.

Yes, the two cars were truly identical and it looked nifty all hooked 
up.  But there was NO WAY that one set of stock early model Corvair 
brakes was going to stop two early models on a downhill segment inside 
the Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson River.  I had driven perhaps less 
than two miles from the parking garage and I was learning a very 
valuable -- and terrifying -- lesson.