Ambitious towbars

[puddlethumper]

I'll have to get a photo of my mates Smart with tow bar and a LPG filling point. Although the LPG goes into a bottle in the back for his motorhome use. He gets some looks when he pulls up to the LPG with a bloody Smart. 

[J W Pepper]

Today I saw a 15 plate Fiat 500 with a towbar and locally there is a Honda Logo with a towbar

[bunglebus]

How about an ambitious roofrack?

[Stuew]

[Kiltox]

Maybe doesn’t look that ambitious here but it has full caravan electrics fitted! 😳 

[UltraWomble]

Piaggio Ape tripod

[catsinthewelder]

With a mighty 187cc engine (at least it's not the 50cc).

[wuvvum]

Those 200*cc Apes actually go OK (relatively speaking).  The council used to use them where we were living in France.  They'll get up to 40ish given a long enough straight.

[sheffcortinacentre]

5 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Those 200*cc Apes actually go OK (relatively speaking).  The council used to use them where we were living in France.  They'll get up to 40ish given a long enough straight.

Horizontal or vertical?

[sdkrc]

[Stuew]

[High Jetter]

Extensions not good?

[Stuew]

[RoverFolkUs]

Found this:

These things are scary enough to drive at speed as they are let alone towing something 😂

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Found this:

These things are scary enough to drive at speed as they are let alone towing something 😂

Ideal for towing a twin axle burger van. 

[Carlosfandango]

An ambitious towbar you say? 
Picture taken over 30 years ago - yes I still own it and no, it doesn’t have a towbar anymore. 
I did use it for towing (once) and recall a ‘tank-slapper’ moment on the way to the dump with a small trailer when I was driving a little too ambitiously.. 

 

CFD 

[Metal Guru]

On 22/07/2022 at 22:58, Stuew said:

Love the “safety” chain held on with two drawing pins. Never going to hold the weight of the tow bar let alone anything being towed. ( which given the tow ball is a   wooden kitchen drawer knob, isn’t happening anyway).

[Rocket88]

On 12/26/2022 at 10:28 AM, Carlosfandango said:

An ambitious towbar you say? 
Picture taken over 30 years ago - yes I still own it and no, it doesn’t have a towbar anymore. 
I did use it for towing (once) and recall a ‘tank-slapper’ moment on the way to the dump with a small trailer when I was driving a little too ambitiously.. 

 

CFD 

124 Spider? Had coupe version years ago. Brilliant little things 

[Out Run]

This thread is missing the king. 
 

 

[808 Estate]

[D.E]

https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/agenten-kijken-verbaasd-op-en-halen-smart-met-caravan-van-de-snelweg~a9566fbf8/

[Stuew]

[Richard_FM]

This Lada was last taxed in 1993, so towing a caravan this didn't help things!

 

[Faker]

[Yoss]

12 hours ago, Stuew said:

Why? 

Something with a very big front overhang? The trailer doesn't look big enough for anything but the smallest car. I'm guessing some sort of plant, a digger perhaps? Still makes very little sense. 

[somewhatfoolish]

16 hours ago, Yoss said:

Why? 

Something with a very big front overhang? The trailer doesn't look big enough for anything but the smallest car. I'm guessing some sort of plant, a digger perhaps? Still makes very little sense. 

Boredom and a surplus of receiver hitch extensions; it's of no use, the things will bend the minute you try and turn a corner and ground out just as quick.

[STUNO]

NO comment, everyone here has a towbar------ except me!

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, STUNO said:

NO comment, everyone here has a towbar------ except me!

I don’t either. Have never driven a vehicle towing anything ever. Probably put off by the horrors of caravanning when I was a kid.

[sheffcortinacentre]

On 2/6/2023 at 6:49 AM, Faker said:

Unladen like that probably not that much of a problem. Being modern it's probably around a tonne.

The original KA weighs roughly the same as a MK2 cortina!

The light weight MX5 weighs the same as a sierra!

[Faker]

On 2/7/2023 at 9:49 PM, sheffcortinacentre said:

Unladen like that probably not that much of a problem. Being modern it's probably around a tonne.

The original KA weighs roughly the same as a MK2 cortina!

The light weight MX5 weighs the same as a sierra!

Yeah I was just running it back to the storage facility. Yaris 1.3 has a towing capacity of 1050kg, Brian James is 600kg empty. Towed it no problem