I must be a car magnet....

[keiser31]

Just now, walking to the store a couple of blocks away to get my honey some baking goods, this truck towing a Model A pulls up behind me....then on the way home, my buddy in his 1930 model A roadster drives by. All in about 15 minutes. Enjoy....

[auburnseeker]

Yup you are.  You are the only one that could be on a cruise in the middle of the ocean and pass a freighter loaded with cars headed to another country.  (probably vintage ones at that)

[Peter J.Heizmann]

Keiser...thanks for posting.  Nice Model A. 

 

Amazing...for such a small town as Phoenix, OR it is incredible how many interesting cars are in your neighborhood.  I am surrounded by larger cities and would have wait a few weeks to see even one old vehicle go by.

 

Thanks for posting all these great vehicles.

 

Peter J.

 

[Terry Bond]

That's a nice looking town sedan.  Was it being flat-towed behind that truck?  Hope it was only going a short distance with someone to pump the brakes!

Terry

[keiser31]

Yes, it was being towed in a very poor way (in my opinion) with a strap. The guy in the A was not happy with the guy towing. That is why they pulled over.

Edited July 2, 2017 by keiser31 (see edit history)

[Joe in Canada]

3 hours ago, Terry Bond said:

That's a nice looking town sedan.  Was it being flat-towed behind that truck?  Hope it was only going a short distance with someone to pump the brakes!

Terry

I seen a fellow tow a nicely restored 32 Packard roadster that way and all of a sudden it got very expensive. He got the rope around the wheel damaged the fender, rad shell and splash apron.  

Edited July 2, 2017 by Joe in Canada (see edit history)

[Mike36]

Keiser, I know you say you live in Oregon, but I am thinking you are really in Greenfield Village!

[cahartley]

That A isn't nice........it's STUNNING....... 

[JACK M]

I remember when I was a kid of 10 or 12 there was a couple of neighbor brothers trying to tow start an old Packard (about a 41 or so).

They were towing it with an old knucklehead.

[Spinneyhill]

Most people towing like that go far, far too fast with only 3 or 4 m of separation. In a sudden stop the towed car would be into the back of the towing car before the towed driver even reacted.

[john2dameron]

Just a few years ago I met a Subaru wagon towing a pickup.  Just before we passed each other (they were coming down hill) the pickup came up partially beside the Subaru and crashed into it.  Turned out the man behind the wheel of the Subaru owned the pickup and the girl behind the wheel of the pickup owned the Subaru.  He was about 65 years old and surely old enough to know that power steering and power brakes don't work when the engine is not running. 

[auburnseeker]

I flat towed a Model a Sedan that had been turned into a pickup about 1 and 1/2 miles with a friend behind the wheel of the A.  I went pretty slow,  Of course right through town,  though it wasn't busy,  We stopped about 1/2 way when I realized I was having to step on the gas going down hill to make it move even slowly and after I saw the amount of smoke coming off the rear wheels of the A. The friend about 18 was afraid of hitting the truck and was just about standing on the brakes of the A.  It didn't have front brakes as someone had taken the roads off years ago.  I got out made sure nothing was on fire and told him,  Easy.  We only had one yield which you pretty much always didn't have any cars to yield for between us and the house.  Made it home fine.  I was using a professionally made tow rope with metal hooks on the ends. 

[SC38dls]

If we're telling towing stories I have one that was pure luck nothing happened. My older brother (by 2 yrs) saw an add for a FREE 36 foot racing sloop in a warehouse that was to be torn down that Monday. This was in the city of Chicago on Racine Ave and he lived in a suburb about 20 miles west of there. This thing was on an old truck frame with 4 metal stands  holding it up. He had a 60 Ford 1/2 ton pickup and I had a 57 DeSoto. The boat had to be out of the warehouse that Friday so we hooked it up to his truck with me following and proceeded west on the Eisenhower expressway during rush hour. We were going about 10 miles an hour when the cops pulled us over. After some explanation they let us go shaking their heads. They were pretty good guys as they put a car in front and behind us until we crossed the Chicago city limits. Three hours later we pulled into his driveway. 

He redid the boat, sold it and bought a 57 Chevy pickup. 

[Ron Lawson]

Many years ago, about 1972 or around that year I owned a Honda Scamp 600cc . I was on my way to see my parents in a town aprox 85 miles from where I was living. Eight miles from my destination I came across an old school mate broken down on the roadside The short version of the story is that he was in a Ford Tank Fairlane and I towed him the 8 miles to Harvey down the main street the the repairers There was no problem about me going too fast ,from memory we got up to about 20 mph and that was down hill Mimmie has never forgiven me for the flack that he got with his Ford being towed by a motor bike on 4 wheels. I sold that little car in 1976 with 82000 miles on the clock 

[Peter J.Heizmann]

I recall hearing  way back of a poor guy riding a bicycle on a very hot day in the middle of nowhere.  A young guy driving an XK-E felt sorry and stopped to help.  He told him there was no room in the Jag for the bike however he was willing to tie a rope around the fork shaft and tow him to town.  Told the bike rider to simply honk his horn if they were going to fast.

 

All went well until a Corvette pulled along side the Jag and they started racing down the highway.  A bit later they went by a billboard of which a cop was hiding using radar.  The cop radioed to the chase car:  "Hey Charlie.  You won't believe this.  in a minute you'll see a Vette racing a Jag doing about 110 mph with a guy on a bicycle honking to pass."

 

Moderators:  OK to delete if you choose.  

 

Peter J.

 

 

[Ozstatman]

Reminds me of this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqNl7tdLR4

[Buffalowed Bill]

Almost forty years ago, while I was going to college, I would occasionally pick up extra money driving for an auto auction company located in south Seattle. The company had won the bid to bring some rental vehicles back to Seattle from the port at Longview Washington, a distance of about ninety miles. Two loads of drivers jumped into two big station wagons for the trip down. At the loading dock we were greeted by some of the worst POS cars that I had ever seen! They were some of the first Datsuns that I had ever seen, and they had been used for just two years in Hawaii. They were not only terrible cars, from an engineering point of view, but they were also in terrible shape from the humid conditions in which they were used.

 

The first car that I jumped into started with a very perceptible rod knock. I immediately got into another car, and very glad that I did, because the guy that got stuck with my first car lost the rod about fifteen miles into the return trip. The crusty old gal who was in charge, had a ten foot long rope in the chase wagon. She proceeded to tow the car and driver the last eighty miles back to Seattle, at speeds of over sixty MPH! They made it without incident, unless you count the kid's mental state on arrival. It may seem insensitive, but it was really humorous to see how shaken he was after his hour and a half ordeal!  

 

Please excuse this little sidebar. It was after dark when we started back with our Datsuns. I realized that as soon as I turned to the lights on that they were on high beam. I reached down with my left foot to hit the dimmer switch, but found nothing. Throughout the whole trip oncoming cars kept flashing their high beams at me, to no avail. I would periodically jab at the floor with my left foot, but of course it was useless. I had never seen a car that used to directional signal wand for dimming the headlights. I remember thinking, after I found out where the dimmer was located, that it was a very bad idea that would never catch on.

 

 

 

[Buffalowed Bill]

I don't know how to edit, my last post. The last post should have read "almost fifty years ago," where has the time gone!

[Marty Roth]

12 hours ago, Buffalowed Bill said:

I don't know how to edit, my last post. The last post should have read "almost fifty years ago," where has the time gone!

 

Bill, click on you prior post, then go to the bottom and click on "edit", make your correction, and then go to the lower right and click on "save"