[ausev] Trailer/Tow vehicle list for Fredericksburg

[Erik Bigelow]

The Cabriolet is fine towed rear wheels down, thanks for offering to tow it.
I'll chip in to get the remaining car towed there somehow. At the last
meeting someone was involved with planning the Roundup.  Is it possible that
there is someone already heading to the Roundup with a spare hitch?

On 9/15/06, Mark Farver <mfarver at mindbent.org> wrote:
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> Car's attending:
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> Farver's MR2
> Erik's Cabriolet
> Roy's Geo
> Aaron's Henney
> Witt's Ranger
> Tom's Tracker
> Barr's Ghia (optional)
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> I believe Tom, Roy and Mark Witt have secured transportation for their
> vehicles.  That leaves us with 3 or 4 vehicles to transport.
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> The cabriolet can probably be dolly towed (Erik?).   The MR2 can be, but
> should ideally be towed wheels up to save miles on the dying tranny.
> The henney must be towed on a trailer.
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> Mark Witt's Ranger tow vehicle may be too small to tow the other Ranger
> the longer distance, even equipped with trailer brakes.  Mark?
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> We have Dan Petit's RV, and mine available as tow vehicles.  Windsor
> Park has trailers for $35/day, but does not reserve them so it will be
> luck of the draw.  If anyone knows of a tow dolly that we can borrow
> please let me know, I sent mail to someone that loaned us one last
> year.  Uhaul has raised prices to about $50 a day for tow dollies.
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> So at the moment, we are short one tow vehicle.  Does anyone have a
> large truck that they would be willing to drive out there Friday morning
> and back Sun night, or loan it for the weekend.  Otherwise we have to
> rent from Longhorn, for about $325, plus about $120 more for the trailer.
>
> So right now I have it this way:
> I will assume that we are taking 6 vehicles, and the three mentioned
> above are already taken care of.  That leaves the Henney, MR2 and
> Cabriolet to transport.  Dan Petit will pull a trailer with the Henney
> or MR2, I will dolly tow the Cabriolet, and we will need to find or rent
> another tow vehicle and trailer to pull the remaining trailer and
> vehicle.  Opinions?
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> If we can find two more tow vehicles we can take the Karmann Ghia,
> giving us an impressive 7 vehicles at the show.
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> Someone might want to contact the Jim Seibert and the San Antonio group
> and see if they would like to contribute any vehicles. The Roundup folks
> left the number of vehicles opened ended, they said they could find
> space.  Any vehicles that cannot fit we will leave outside for Ride and
> Drive events.
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> It would be best to have all of the vehicles loaded Thursday night for
> early AM departures Friday.  Running Austin AM traffic with a trailer is
> less than fun, and it ends up cutting it close to arrive and get
> situated before the event opens on Friday.
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> If you know ahead what days you will be attending, and if you are
> willing to staff our booth please let me know.
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> Mark Farver
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