For years, I've always bought wrecked cars at salvage auctions and rebuilt them. Small gas savers are selling like hot cakes these days, I can't build
them fast enough.
Or get them bought and into the shop fast enough. I have been using my ramp tow dolly to haul the cars back from Houston and Baton Rouge but hauling cars one at a time is time consuming, not to mention the cost of diesel, but mostly it's a time issue for me.
If I bought two or three cars at a single auction it was either make three trips or hire a transport company to haul them for me ($$$$$).
So I'm building a goose neck two car wedge trailer.
I had bought ($260) a damaged (beyond repair) 5th wheel camper for the refrigerator to use in another camper I was rebuilding. I sold the A/C unit off the roof for $250 bucks so I'm into the junk trailer now for $10. We stripped cabin off and got it down to the bare frame and building the car hauler out of the camper frame.
Here's some pics of the progress so far:
Thursday, added the upper rails.
...and got the 5200# axles mounted. No, it's not a 4 axle trailer. When my new wheels and tires come in the old axles are getting cut out.
Dove tail attached.
I couldn't make the ramp one long drop from the front deck or the cars would bottom out. So I had to have a break in the ramp 9' back from the front deck.
Got all the cross braces welded in last night. More pics to come next week.
Update 5/22/08:
Finally got it all welded together. Spent the whole day cleaning it up with a wire wheel. Man what a dirty job that was. The inside of my shop is a disaster area. It will take two days to clean up the mess.
Then pulled it outside to pressure wash her. Perfect hot sunny day to quickly dry up all the water.
Ready for spray painting in the morning.
Got it all painted up last week and dressed out with lights and reflective tape.
And getting tags for it was a breeze. Ready for action now...
Here I am at the salvage auction in Houston waiting to get loaded up. The size of this place would blow your mind. The wrecked cars seem to stretch to the horizon.
The car hauler pulled beautiful. I gotta admit I was a little anxious about it's maiden voyage. Smoothest rip I ever made to the sale.
I should'a built this years ago.
The Baton Rouge sale is today so I chompin' at the bit to buy a couple more cars so I can, as my wife puts it, "play with my new toy". (she's right)
Or get them bought and into the shop fast enough. I have been using my ramp tow dolly to haul the cars back from Houston and Baton Rouge but hauling cars one at a time is time consuming, not to mention the cost of diesel, but mostly it's a time issue for me.
If I bought two or three cars at a single auction it was either make three trips or hire a transport company to haul them for me ($$$$$).
So I'm building a goose neck two car wedge trailer.
I had bought ($260) a damaged (beyond repair) 5th wheel camper for the refrigerator to use in another camper I was rebuilding. I sold the A/C unit off the roof for $250 bucks so I'm into the junk trailer now for $10. We stripped cabin off and got it down to the bare frame and building the car hauler out of the camper frame.
Here's some pics of the progress so far:
Thursday, added the upper rails.
...and got the 5200# axles mounted. No, it's not a 4 axle trailer. When my new wheels and tires come in the old axles are getting cut out.
Dove tail attached.
I couldn't make the ramp one long drop from the front deck or the cars would bottom out. So I had to have a break in the ramp 9' back from the front deck.
Got all the cross braces welded in last night. More pics to come next week.
Update 5/22/08:
Finally got it all welded together. Spent the whole day cleaning it up with a wire wheel. Man what a dirty job that was. The inside of my shop is a disaster area. It will take two days to clean up the mess.
Then pulled it outside to pressure wash her. Perfect hot sunny day to quickly dry up all the water.
Ready for spray painting in the morning.
Got it all painted up last week and dressed out with lights and reflective tape.
And getting tags for it was a breeze. Ready for action now...
Here I am at the salvage auction in Houston waiting to get loaded up. The size of this place would blow your mind. The wrecked cars seem to stretch to the horizon.
The car hauler pulled beautiful. I gotta admit I was a little anxious about it's maiden voyage. Smoothest rip I ever made to the sale.
I should'a built this years ago.
The Baton Rouge sale is today so I chompin' at the bit to buy a couple more cars so I can, as my wife puts it, "play with my new toy". (she's right)
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