Hi Rick,
I, too, bought a universal towbar from Pep Boys. It was the lowest
price for a good towbar. Then I took off the bumper and had a welding
shop fabricate an angle-iron "bumper" that spanned the bumper brackets
and bolted to them. The towbar attaching brackets were bolted thru the
bumper supports.
Few shops want to fabricate a towbar. They're afraid of being sued.
CR
Rick Huber wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm getting ready to get a tow bar built to pull my 65 B to New Jersey
> next month. I'm talking to the trailer people about removing the bumper
> and attaching a tow bar to the bumper attachment points. Is that a
> strong enough attachment point for the tow bar. The trailer guy says he
> has several Draw Tite tow bars that he can offer me, but he sounds very
> reluctant to build one to suit. I've asked this list before about it
> and it seemed real easy to just have one made, but now it doesn't seem
> so easy. Has anybody done this - pulled an MGB with a tow bar ? Should
> I just rent one ? Maybe a tow dolly from U-Haul, but I'm sure I'll be
> doing this again in the future, so I wanted to have one of my own.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Huber
>
> 75 V8 B Daily Driver (will drive this one to NJ)
> 65 B undergoing lengthy restoration
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