Vintage Drag Car Haulers or Tow Rigs.
 

Several different vintage drag photo discussions have been started recently with some great photos posted. Thus, I want to see some vintage photos of the haulers or tow rigs that pulled these cars to the track. If another discussion has already been started on this topic in the past, please paste a link or pull the photos into this one. Here are two photos that have already been posted to get things started.

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...6-img_0934.jpg

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...7-img_0933.jpg

Thanks,
Marty

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Love those old haulers ..
Thanks for starting this thread

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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2478-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2479-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2480-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2481-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2482-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2483-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2484-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2485-image.jpg

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You have the Mongoose, here is the Snake. Not a vintage picture (2 years ago), I talked to Don Prudomme and he told me he found his old tow rig in a yard and restored it. This is his original tow rig and original race car. How far the sport has come:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...psfff95032.jpg

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what great pictures!

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http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...psa494e1f0.jpg

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps62b09bbe.jpg

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Very cool photos. Thanks for sharing.

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https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2654-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2655-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2658-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2659-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2660-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2661-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2662-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2663-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2664-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2665-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2666-image.jpg
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...2667-image.jpg

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http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o..._2786411_n.jpg
http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o...2_702148_n.jpg
http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o...3QpxmRT_ph.jpg
http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/o...Hauler_003.jpg

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Those are great. Please keep them coming.
Thanks,
Marty

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all the high dollar Chrysler teams with the enclosed rigs and the poor Chevy guys with the open rigs. HMMMMM funny how the guy with the little white vega and the "old style" red open rig carrier had all those big boys numbers!

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I went through 2 ramp trucks during my racing years, a 1963 Ford single cab dually with a steel bed of unknown origin (very similiar to one pictured here), and a 1976 Chevy crew-cab dually with a Hodges bed. The popular box trailer was just coming to be the norm, but I always had a company demo and no truck as a tow vehicle so the ramp trucks really made sense for me. I wish I had the second one back as it was real nice and would come in handy today.

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I can't compete with some of those rigs (...edit: ANY of those rigs - lol), but here's how we started out:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/63Covair.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/64LeMans.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8GTOresize.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../GTO/69GMC.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...001/towbar.jpg

We thought we were "big time" when we built this open trailer in 1967:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...01/trailer.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...trailersub.jpg

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...scan0002-1.jpg

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I still have the old tow bar, so I added a hitch to the Grand Prix so that I could do this (pics taken May, 2010):


http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...x/100_0325.jpg

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...x/100_0333.jpg

I still have the red truck and the open car trailer, too (disregard the Lo-Boy for the purposes of this discussion):

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...d/DSC00394.jpg

K

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Here is the hauler we built for our 81 Pro Stock Camaro from an old tractor we found in a junk yard. We build the box out of aluminum tubing and covered it in prepainted aluminum sheets.

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----Rick,,,Thats just too cool!!!.......Bill S

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Along the lines of less flashy, lower budget, but effective....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...6velleTuck.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...velleTuck2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...hevelle006.jpg

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Keith, your photos are excellent, but THIS rig below is spectacular!!

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...x/100_0333.jpg



(disregard the Lo-Boy for the purposes of this discussion) [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

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The Brooklyn Heavy car hauler in the very first post(top pic)is now owned by Dan Palchanes. He brought I to my friend's shop a few years back and Heavy came down and took pictures with it and signed off on it. It would be great if my recent efforts to authenticate and buy Heavy's Harrell built 70 Camaro ever pay off.

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichSchmidt</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Brooklyn Heavy car hauler in the very first post(top pic)is now owned by Dan Palchanes. He brought I to my friend's shop a few years back and Heavy came down and took pictures with it and signed off on it. It would be great if my recent efforts to authenticate and buy Heavy's Harrell built 70 Camaro ever pay off. </div></div>

The car hauler in the second pic is the one owned by Dan Palchanes. It has a lot of differences from the one in the first pic. I am not saying it is or isn't the same or one of Heavy's haulers. I'm just pointing out that the two haulers have differences.
Dan's hualer restored would be awesome. The photo doesn't show it well, but it has a ribbon paint scheme on the bed sides. Much like the Motion Ribbon Camaro. It is very cool.

Thanks,
Marty

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In the market for a 57 Chevy Ramp Truck?
Here ya go... http://www.cars-on-line.com/63444.html

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use..._ramptruck.jpg

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ORIGLS6</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...ps8a8ecfa4.jpg </div></div>

now there's a cool pair

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I wasn't sure about that. I remember that the one Dan has still has some of the lettering from Heavy on I,so I didn't think it was the second one. I wasn't sure since I do remember that Dan's truck seemed like a regular 1 ton,and the truck in the first pic is longer and has a heavier chassis then Dan's. Either way,it is a cool hauler. I myself would be torn on just how much to restore it.

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Dan and Heavy with the hauler

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...psf830198e.jpg

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Great hauler with a cool history.
Glad to see it survived .

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http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/4104/img115l.jpg

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/7165/img839.jpg

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I found this link with a lot of different pictures.

Race Car Haulers

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<span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">This one is going on the 2013 Pour Tour with us in June.</span></span>

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/c...749C8D043D.jpg

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What an awesome hauler!!

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Keith Seymore</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I can't compete with some of those rigs (...edit: ANY of those rigs - lol), but here's how we started out:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/63Covair.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...1/64LeMans.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...8GTOresize.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3.../GTO/69GMC.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...001/towbar.jpg

We thought we were &quot;big time&quot; when we built this open trailer in 1967:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...01/trailer.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...trailersub.jpg

http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...scan0002-1.jpg

</div></div>

Love the early model vair pulling the GTO [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

love all the photos here for that matter.

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Love it , Awesome pics guys .

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tracker1</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc0871f5e.jpg </div></div>

Damn, that's some front overhang on that hauler. Does it rest on the front bumber when the car is unloaded?

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http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/w...rassoVargo.jpg

My dad's 55 being used as a tow vehicle.