Tow bars? Sacrilege!!

[jonk]

Ok... don't laugh too much, but does anyone have any experience of towing anything with an S? And, before you lot start mercilessly ripping the p*ss, I'm NOT going to buy myself a large white grockle-hutch and take grandma and the kids off to Devon for the bank-holiday weekend.

I'd like to get a little sailing dingy on a trailer so I can get my feet wet at the weekends... any thoughts? If I can't do tow with the TVR, I'll have to borrow a mate's Volvo :makes-sign-of-the-cross: which would not be good!

>>> Edited by jonk on Friday 9th May 18:16

[dern]

I'm not sure where you'd route the exhaust if you fitted a tow bar. Also the bit at the back that looks like the chassis is the fuel tank carrier (I believe) so even if you could reroute the exhaust (which I doubt) you wouldn't have anything to attach the tow bar too.

Hope I'm wrong though, nothing wrong with combining hobbies. I never could quite figure out a way to carry my kayak on the car

Mark

PS: did a dingy course at southampton a couple of years ago - it was fantastic fun. How about a 2nd tow car? My carlton will be up for sale soon for about 800 quid and that would tow pretty much anything and is extremely reliable.

>> Edited by dern on Friday 9th May 20:10

[jmorgan]

Not much help, well none but I have seen a S towing a glider trailer...near Manchester.

[Psychobert]

jmorgan said: Not much help, well none but I have seen a S towing a glider trailer...near Manchester.

A glider? Ought to be easy enough to find whoever it is though, can't be that many with gliders and TVRs..

[shpub]

Talk to Tower View. They had the S series tow bar made up for that Glider and have another one in their Aladins Cave.

before you knock it. The 520 now has a tow bar and a special trailer that carries a set of slicks and a set of wets and bits and pieces. Drive to sprint. Unhitch, unbolt the tow bar and swap to slicks to play. the car still does 0-60 in under 5 seconds with the trailer...

>> Edited by shpub on Friday 9th May 21:20

[dern]

Cool.

Ok, how do I fit a roof rack then to carry my kayak?



Mark

[gemini]

you dont

take the roof off and ram it in the back

[jonk]

Thanks for the advice guys! The problem with a second tow car is space. I live in central London, so finding space for an additional car is a problem. Also, by the time you add the cost of tax, insurance, parking permits and congestion charges (aaaaggghhh) the whole thing becomes pretty expensive.

I still haven't figured out where I'd keep the boat yet, anyway!

What might be the best option is to keep it down by the coast over the summer, and transport it to and from my folks place at the end of the season.

[dern]

Don't most boat clubs allow you to keep your boat at their premises?

[hopper]

I thought about this route, but ended up keeping my boat in the dinghy park for the season and borrowing cars to get it where it was needed with Bird following in the Tiv, sadly both have gone now (that's the bird and the Tiv)

[jonk]

Well.. look on the bright side. Least you've still got the boat!

I think I'll probably keep in in a dingy park as you suggest..