funny idea for tow car...

last night i was at work i was thinking about a tow car to carry my race car. i have a lot of time doing pizza derliery to think at time and some stuff that i come up with is weird. but the idea was finding a late 70's or early 80's amc matadoor sedan to use. then i have to paint it white, then get the stickers for the doors, the light bar for the roof with the pa, and the cb on the truck and the biggest things would be fiding a plush basset hound for the back seat....i really am thiniing about doing this and its drieving me nuts cause i could do it fairly cheap i think.sigh......

I cant say i know off-hand what a matador is, but im almost certain that i am FOR it because i love unusual tow vehicles.

Exhibit A, my dodge dynasty:

The most ive towed with it so far is just under 4000 lbs. Im considering 4500 to get a certain Grand Caravan out of my yard

Back in Oz, I followed a 75 Toyota Corona towing a dual axle trailer with a Volvo 240 wagon on it over the West Gate Bridge.

Seriously

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Gate_Bridge

Matador?

Or Matador?

Or Matador Machine?

I say go for it.

Funny tow vehicles, photographed on Rt. 60 over I-94 in Lake Forest:

ckosacranoid wrote: a late 70's or early 80's amc matadoor sedan to use. then i have to paint it white, then get the stickers for the doors, the light bar for the roof with the pa, and the cb on the truck and the biggest things would be fiding a plush basset hound for the back seat...

You could be your own little Pete Malloy and Jim Reed
"One Adam-12, see the man..."

According to Wiki, the show used a 1972 Matador for 3 of the seven seasons.

For the summer months you could get a big Kawasaki and go all "Seven Mary 3 & 4" kinds of crazy.

I don't really see how the basset hound fits in?

I think they used Plymouth Belvederes before that.

Yep, all Morpar before the AMC
From Wiki...

1967 Plymouth Belvedere (pilot / first episode only - shot in autumn 1967)
1968 and 1969 Plymouth Belvedere (season one, then seasons two and three, respectively)
1971 Plymouth Satellite (season four)
1972 AMC Matador (seasons five through seven)

With the Basset hound reference, I beleive he's thinking Flash from Dukes of Hazzard. The patrol cars were Dodges and Plymouths though. Maybe a Chevy in the 1st episode or 2.

They did start out using matadors in the dukes of hazzard, but they switched to dodges becasue the stunt drivers didnt like the amcs, and i think the dodges were easier to get.

I have often thought about taking one of those 80s El Caminos that look like 1/2 a Monte Carlo and beefing it with huge brakes, stiff suspension and adding a ball in the bed so you could pull a gooseneck with it.

For that matter... ripping the hatch off a 91 IROC and doing the same thing would be even more ridiculous and redneck chic.

mtn wrote: I say go for it. Funny tow vehicles, photographed on Rt. 60 over I-94 in Lake Forest:

My camera was in the trunk so I couldn't snap it, but the last time I was back in the UK I passed a Smart car on the M25 (freeway around London) pulling a utility trailer.

'74 Beetle towing a camper!

Why can't all trailers by like that one.

When I bought my old Subaru (I think it was an 86), it had a trailer hitch. This was a car that was in danger of getting run over by semis when climbing the big passes in the Rockies. But it's okay, the hitch was attached to the plastic bumper with two big screws. So if the load got too heavy, it would have been jettisoned.

I've seen what can only be described as a mutant love-child between an Olds Toronado and a dual axle trailer. Like the Car Camel except not executed nearly as well. It wasn't pretty but with that big block power and FWD allowing for a low deck height, it probably worked pretty well.

the idea was for a dules of hazzard type cop car cuas eits different and i do have to say i like amcs.....i think it was first season that they used amc for the dukes of harrard though.....but if i do the matador it might end being a wagon though since a couple of people saif that those make some very good tow vehicles from the amc line up...and that 70's and 80s motife would be cool since my race car is a 88 monto calro.....

I would still like to use my '75 Vette to tow a VW track/autocross car. Just think that would be cool. I have a flip down license plate bracket from an Impala. I am going to hide a receiver behind the bumper skin. what do you think?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ru1l2gN88

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsoa/3603786417/ See all you need is a Saab!

vwcorvette wrote: I would still like to use my '75 Vette to tow a VW track/autocross car. Just think that would be cool. I have a flip down license plate bracket from an Impala. I am going to hide a receiver behind the bumper skin. what do you think?

I think you should do it George. Just account for the height of the tongue of the trailer.

Use a corvette. My buddies grandad used one for his bass boat.

Power and brakes and weight, what else do you need in a tow rig.

I'm sure that nobody on this forum really think any of these are particularly strange...I had a trailer hitch on a 2002 and used it to tow a '67 2000 home once...

I like the Corvette idea. My dad towed his H-Production Bugeye Sprite roadracing car wirth a 1966 427 Corvette roadster back in the early seventies.