My first car died.

[Arbitern1]

I do have a class 3 trailer hitch rated at 5,000 pounds along with trailer brakes and everything. I want to tow a boat to the river. The trailer and the boat combine are around 4000IB. I have the stopping power and the pulling power. Also got a transmission cooler. The only thing i am worried about is the immense amount of swaying caused by the huge amount of weight. I think i would be fine because i would be driving on a highway about an hour to the river. Keep it at 45MPH and i think sway would be minimized.

Check the brakes in the trailor, water puts some serious corrosion in drum brakes. Usually the pads will drag so badly you get the sway hop action. When I replaced my boat trailor axles, I went with NO brakes in the trailor. The surge cylinder didn't work anyways in the vintage trailor. Luckily my Sequoya has disc brakes all the way around, but as a precaution I slow down conservatively before stopping.

No brakes? Holy crap. Well the Sequoya is like 6 thousand pounds. My El Camino sits at about 3,750 give or take 200 pounds. I need those trailer brakes. We recently replaced the brakes on the trailer. I don't think it will be any problem. Thanks for the advice guys!

[Droid party]

... ask a friend to check the antifreeze in radiator of the corvair.

I did that to a friend that had just bought a 1969 beetle. Guy knew as much about cars as I know about knitting, I told him to keep a close eye on the radiator because they were notorious for blowing hoses.

My first car was a 1981 Ford Fairmont Ghia. It was an absolute bucket of shit and I wound up swapping it for an off road buggy that was made from an old dirt track sprint race car. My old Ford was stripped for parts and then promptly sold off to a show group and run over by a monster truck... Wow, I never realised how redneck my automotive history sounded

[Arbitern1]

... ask a friend to check the antifreeze in radiator of the corvair.

I did that to a friend that had just bought a 1969 beetle. Guy knew as much about cars as I know about knitting, I told him to keep a close eye on the radiator because they were notorious for blowing hoses.

My first car was a 1981 Ford Fairmont Ghia. It was an absolute bucket of shit and I wound up swapping it for an off road buggy that was made from an old dirt track sprint race car. My old Ford was stripped for parts and then promptly sold off to a show group and run over by a monster truck... Wow, I never realised how redneck my automotive history sounded

Haha i live in Henderson TN man. Trucks outnumber passenger cars by 2:1. It's really funny. I'm air cooled bitches! I'll have to borrow a camera from my friend and take some pictures of my Corvair. Already got some of my El Camino. It has it's factory paint job. The El Camino is literally untouched. The only thing that is really wrong with it is that the dash a few trademark chevy sun cracks. The person i bought it from was pretty old and it was a single owner. This is the only picture i have of it. Taken with my shitty old iphone camera. Before i dropped in water 0-0.

[Jrecee]

I just have to post this video about chevy celebrities

[Zeonik Freak]

Ohhh boy.

I hope no one ever has to lose a car like this, but my first car was a Toyota Corolla, 1990 or so. It was about as old as I was and just about every sibling in my family plus my parents drove it at one point. When they passed it down to me it was like an heirloom. It looked dated but I loved that it had this nice broken-in feel. Oh and no CD player meant you had to use one of those tape converters.

But, our time was short lived. Driving home from school one day I was stopped behind a school bus dropping off kids. Well there I am just sitting there and all of a sudden the bus begins BACKING UP in the middle of the road with cars behind me. I assumed it knew I was there and that it would stop...but it didn't. In my futility I tried to reverse the car but by then it was too late and I didn't think to honk my horn. The bus basically sat on top of my little corollas hood and completely wrecked the front. I was thankfully okay but the corolla didn't make it. =(

What's even better is if I hadn't drove to school that day, I would have taken the bus that sat on me back home. The driver was nice after the crash but she shouldn't be driving buses. Who the hell just backs up in the middle of the road? Apparently she missed the stop by about 10 yards....yeah. Afterwards I was really pissed, but at the time I was shooken up because it was my first crash.

A couple months later that same bus driver drove through someone's house...while kids were riding in it. No one was hurt thankfully, but I hope she's fired.

WOAH, YOU HAD THAT HAPPEN TO YOU? I gotta wonder if were talking about the same bus driver. Ok heres my story.

This was like 98 or 99, or my 6th grade year and we had a temp bus driver that day. So were at a neighborhood to drop some kids off and for outta no where, the driver gets mad and looks at the back of the bus with the most pissed off satan face ever. She then jerks the bus in reverse and the next thing we hear and feel is crunching noises and this bad whiplash. And within an instant her expression changes to this grief as she get outside the bus to see what she had done, which was back over someones hood of their car. I dont remember if they rear ended the bus or what, and I sure as heck dont know what could have possessed her to back the bus over the car either, but that was funny.

The ironic part was, she told us in the 10 some years shes be driving, that she NEVER HAD AN ACCIDENT EVER!!! You gotta love irony.