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Re: wenching onto a trailer

To: tcost@vvm.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: wenching onto a trailer
From: Jsk977@aol.com
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:49:45 EDT
Terry,

You sure are right about too little tongue weight and straight line sway. 
Quite a number of years ago, I had too much tongue weight, so I bolted chocks 
to the trailer floor to moved the car back.  Didn't realize that I now had 
too little weight until the trailer tried to pass my two ton plus  '68 
Plymouth fury station wagon at 65mph on 
I 684 on the way to Lime Rock. Used all the lanes plus the shoulder. Real 
scary!! Lost what was left of my composure barely a mile down the road when I 
collected a fair sized bird with my windshield. 

To top the day off, I was leading in CP with two laps left when I was too hot 
into the Big Bend at the end of the straight and had to use the escape road. 
Came in second behind a nearly stock 240Z :(   All in all, not my best day. 
So...watch for too little tongue weight!

Jerry Krakauer
67.5 SRL 00099

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