1969 Camaro Tie Down

[Thomas]

Where did the transport companies tie down the rear of the 1969 Camaros during shipment?
I have spent 1/2 an hour crawling around under the rear of my car and cannot see any place where they could have inserted a hook.

[67 Nova Boy]

Maybe they used a strap wrapped around the housing and tied into that with a hook? Allot of tow flatbeds use them.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

[Thomas]

I think that would let the cars "bounce" too much during shipment.
If the transporters were similar to the ones today, they look like they have a chain on a reel.
Once the hook is attached to something, the tighten the chain on the reel...

[Craig_Maiorana]

There are no oval openings in the rear frame rails? ... We had our 66 Hemi Coronet 500 sent to Atlantic City one time on a transport and when the car got back we found that they just stuck a hook in some random hole in the frame and it tore out from all of the bouncing

[Thomas]

The reason that I am asking this is that I need to find a different place to tie down my race car on my trailer.
I was using the real end housing, but that allows rear of the car to bounce and is hard on some very expensive shocks.
So, I am hoping that someone knows how they were originally tied down during transport.
There is a picture out there of a bunch of Yenkos and it is obvious that they are tied down by the frame, judging how far the rear wheel is up inside the wheel well.

Normally, I would just drill some holes in the frame rail and fabricate a mount, but this car is cleaner than my 39,000 original mile street car and I just do not have the heart to drill through the mint frame rails...
The car shows 3,700 miles on the odometer and, from the rust free condition of the shell, I suspect that to be original before it was turned into a race car.

[sYc]

Front and rear there are slots/holes where they inserted a metal "t-bar" hooked to a chain.

[Craig_Maiorana]

Yeah like SYC said there should be some oval reinforced holes that a T hook will pop into. The rear holes should be just a step inward of the front leaf shackle point

[PxTx]

I'd love to see the car. Can you post a pic?

[Thomas]

[img]https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/pics...fying_launch.j[/img]

[COPO CARTEL]

That would look cool at the SCR 18 doing that