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Greentreena

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Posted: 10/01/09 12:21pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I WAS towing TOO much trailer!




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Posted: 10/01/09 12:23pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

DARN!
Shouldn't have packed that load of lead ingots in the back of the trailer!


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Posted: 10/01/09 12:30pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

"But...Andy Thompson said that I had more than enough tow vehicle. My Yugo is actually very robust and if it weren't for the conspiracy with Ford to sell more trucks, it would be rated to tow 3,500 lb."


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Posted: 10/01/09 12:35pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

I think it's a case of radioactive HEAVY WATER in the on board tank.... which obviously is in the back of this unit!


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Posted: 10/01/09 01:24pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Staged photo aside, that is pretty typical of a European TV and TT combo, from what I've seen.

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mkirsch wrote:

Staged photo aside, that is pretty typical of a European TV and TT combo, from what I've seen.
Yup, exactly right.

People mock what they don't understand. Yes, even a Yugo (or similar) can tow a trailer within reason. It's done all the time in countries around the world, yet in between our borders the laws of physics change and only pickups and SUVs can pull anything.


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mkirsch wrote:

Staged photo aside, that is pretty typical of a European TV and TT combo, from what I've seen.


Yeah, some of the "weight police" should see a Lambretta three wheeler with a dozen people, 2 pigs, and 2 dozen chickens on board buzzing down the road at 35 MPH.
FUN to watch, and they rarely crash.


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Posted: 10/01/09 02:11pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator

Greentreena wrote:

I WAS towing TOO much trailer!



" Honey, didn't you drain the Black tank yet??


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I saw a motorcycle with a pop up trailer last weekend. I didn't think to shoot a picture of it. It was a new pop up and quite large.

The long, long trailer. Lucy!!!!!!


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Is that the new 2010 SuperDuty? Thought so... ;-)


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