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What happened was that I drove 500 miles and had to turn back because to improvised hitch on the 145 wasn't holding. The damage to the trailer was another unrelated thing.
It seems as if it impossible to get a hitch for a 145. that and the fact that the 145 is unibody, makes it nigh impossible to fashion a decent hitch if yoou can't obtain a stock hitch. Rob tried with a 240 hitch.
The Caprice is underpowered, but i couldn't afford to drive an bigger engine. It got over the 6500' mountains all right towing the trailer, but sometimes it was in D2 and once or twice in low. I don't particularly object to the modest power, it is just that my first car, a '64 Comet Caliente, which was considered a compact car at the time, was a 302 and this huge sled is a 307.
The 145 was my winter beateer, so the Caprice, if I keep it will become that also. I don't know how well it will do on
It seems, since I a tow car, that I will have to keep the Caprice. The 122 has a hitch, but the rear is awfully close to the ground, and really needs air springs to tow a trailer. I buggered the threads on the jack wheel on the trailer last year by bottoming out when using the 122 as a tow car.
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Sensual Ascetic. Three Volvos. Average age 37 years. No damn cupholders. Good wine.
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