LOL towing over here the speed limit is 56mph/90kmh same as heavy vehicles an F150 wont go any quicker than anything else my current Hillman has a towbar and just like the older one I had I use it.
I once had a 1966 Airstream Globetrotter. The sales brochure included with the trailer had an illustration of a bright red Corvair towing the very same Globetrotter. To me this was very unlikely. Unless there was some load leveling hitch, (unlikely for a 66 Corvair), how could the Corvair have any steering?
The specs for the 20′ 1966 Globetrotter are: Total weight: 2910 lbs. Hitch weight: 393 lbs. This would have been doable for a Corvair, but not really recommended. The Corvair owner’s manual does have a short section on towing. It says that many Corvair owners have successfully towed trailers with the right towing equipment, but it does not give any details as to the maximum weight or hitch weight.
393 lbs on the rear hitch would certainly increase the Corvair’s rear weight bias, but not to the extreme you’re suggesting. It would obviously require driving slower and more carefully. Recommendable? Not really, but doable.
Update: I found a towing guide for the ’66 Corvair. Their specs are 1000lbs max weight of the trailer, and 100lbs max hitch weight. So that Airstream would have exceeded that by a huge margin. Are you sure it was actually hitched to the Corvair?
Of all the French brands of cars, I think Renault might have translated best to the US. Biased perhaps by some time in my Dad R16 TS over in England, which was much more fun to drive than their R16, US spec car, in England. But the 15s and the 17s even over here weren’t bad. Some at least got very good reviews, but perhaps the likely (I don’t recall) lack of a good A/T might have killed them off in spite of a good car otherwise. Peppy, sporty, fun, kind of as good as the 70’s got for cars, with the exception of the higher priced Germans like BMW and MB.
Gotta love little cars with trailers, and the European tradition of field camping.
I think I missed the tail end of camping season, I’d been hoping to go motorcycle camping in September or October but those months seem to have gotten away from me.
Weekend-shows/events usually have a a camping site on or right next to the main show terrain. You arrive in your R4 with a camper trailer on friday (evening) and leave on sunday in the afternoon. And never mind the VW Transporter, you just can’t avoid them, wherever you go 🙂
At first I thought the image was a tilt shift photograph as it’s the exact opposite of America’s RV scene. We’ve been duped! I’m hoping BEV’s with full torque at 1 rpm will open some people’s minds.
Where in France is this!
Can’t believe to see 2 Renault 4 with camping trailer on the hitch!
Kronenberg, NL (nearby America, as a matter of fact). The camping site of the 2022 edition of the Renaultoloog Festival.
And I thought that’s a shot from the late 70’s. The R 15 or 17 must be a visitor from France as indicated by the white on black number plate.
Dutch plate, pre-1978.
As soon as I saw this headline, announcing the *tail end* ….
I expected to see some version of ’59 Cadillac tail-lights.
Instead, I was thrilled to see:
1. A bright yellow Renault 4
2. A pumpkin-orange Renault 15 or 17.
— from a former Renault LeCar owner.
“3 lug nuts forever!”
I checked its plate, it’s a 1977 Renault 17 TS.
Here’s a full report of the 2016 edition, when it was hot/dry/sunny (unlike the 2022 show):
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/car-show-classics-2016-renaultoloog-festival-part-one-the-cars/
That bright orange Renault 17 is (almost) enough to get me into camping
Got to love seeing two R4s with trailers. Most Americans would not believe it was possible to tow a trailer with anything less than an F150.
LOL towing over here the speed limit is 56mph/90kmh same as heavy vehicles an F150 wont go any quicker than anything else my current Hillman has a towbar and just like the older one I had I use it.
I once had a 1966 Airstream Globetrotter. The sales brochure included with the trailer had an illustration of a bright red Corvair towing the very same Globetrotter. To me this was very unlikely. Unless there was some load leveling hitch, (unlikely for a 66 Corvair), how could the Corvair have any steering?
The specs for the 20′ 1966 Globetrotter are: Total weight: 2910 lbs. Hitch weight: 393 lbs. This would have been doable for a Corvair, but not really recommended. The Corvair owner’s manual does have a short section on towing. It says that many Corvair owners have successfully towed trailers with the right towing equipment, but it does not give any details as to the maximum weight or hitch weight.
393 lbs on the rear hitch would certainly increase the Corvair’s rear weight bias, but not to the extreme you’re suggesting. It would obviously require driving slower and more carefully. Recommendable? Not really, but doable.
Update: I found a towing guide for the ’66 Corvair. Their specs are 1000lbs max weight of the trailer, and 100lbs max hitch weight. So that Airstream would have exceeded that by a huge margin. Are you sure it was actually hitched to the Corvair?
And here’s a picture from a ’65 brochure:
Of all the French brands of cars, I think Renault might have translated best to the US. Biased perhaps by some time in my Dad R16 TS over in England, which was much more fun to drive than their R16, US spec car, in England. But the 15s and the 17s even over here weren’t bad. Some at least got very good reviews, but perhaps the likely (I don’t recall) lack of a good A/T might have killed them off in spite of a good car otherwise. Peppy, sporty, fun, kind of as good as the 70’s got for cars, with the exception of the higher priced Germans like BMW and MB.
Regardless, fun to see the assemblage!
Gotta love little cars with trailers, and the European tradition of field camping.
I think I missed the tail end of camping season, I’d been hoping to go motorcycle camping in September or October but those months seem to have gotten away from me.
Weekend-shows/events usually have a a camping site on or right next to the main show terrain. You arrive in your R4 with a camper trailer on friday (evening) and leave on sunday in the afternoon. And never mind the VW Transporter, you just can’t avoid them, wherever you go 🙂
At first I thought the image was a tilt shift photograph as it’s the exact opposite of America’s RV scene. We’ve been duped! I’m hoping BEV’s with full torque at 1 rpm will open some people’s minds.