Race car haulers
General
I know that many if not most race cars today get hauled to & from the tracks in big enclosed trailers.I remember when a ramp truck was the hot setup, here in the Northeast.They didn't take up that much room in the pits, and out on the road, people could SEE the car, which was a good thing!Some of the dirt tracks ,such as Orange County and Lebanon Valley, which have infield pits, have so many giant haul rigs that it can be hard to see the backstretch from the lower end of the stands.There were some pretty cool modified haulers around in the 60-70's.I remember one used by a guy that ran at Riverside Park in Agawam, Mass. , that was based on an old Cadillac limousine that was cut off behind the doors.I think it was Gig Smith's rig.I started off using an open trailer, towed with my boss's Chevy C30 wrecker, which was handy because if we got wrecked (and who didn't get wrecked!) , we used the wrecker winch to drag the car up onto the trailer.Then I got an International ramp truck, that had a 14' box behind the cab with the car carried on ramps behind that.A friend of mine, Nels Wohlstrom, who ran the #69 at Thompson & Waterford, used a converted school bus!Anybody else remember any really different race car haulers?
updated by @ted-brown: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
