When I saw this load of Subaru 360s being hauled by a Ford Super Duty, the thought that came to mind was: Is this the only car carrier shot I’ve found so far where the combined horsepower of the full load was less than the that of the truck hauling it?
I guessed so, but I had to do the arithmetic to be sure.
The Subaru 360 was rated at 20, and later 25 hp. If we give these these benefit of the doubt, nine of them combined make 225 hp. I don’t know which SD engine is under the Ford’s hood, but it turns out not to matter, as the smallest of them, the 401, still beats them by…one hp, given its 226 hp rating. If it’s the 477, it has 253 hp, and the mighty 534 packed a 266 hp punch.
I suppose there might have been instances when the same thing happened with a load of of Isettas (13 hp each) or such, but then truck in the 1950s were generally less powerful too. And I can’t find any pictures of them.
“The little Su-BAR-u. Wow!”
I’ll never forget the Marsha Brady clone they hired for that series of commercials.
It still amazes me, all the trucking in my youth done with maybe 150-250 hp, but I guess things always got managed.
Online there’s a image of some King Midgets on a car carrier to be found, but I sure don’t think of them as “real cars” like these Subarus, anyway…..
A recent photo on CC showed 13 full size American new cars on a transporter. I find it ironic that here in this photo we have the smallest cars available in the US at that time, and there are a total of 10 cars!
Perhaps this reflects the number of cars ordered by the dealers?
This is funny! Thanks
Not quite a full load theres room for another one