[Mgs] MG, how heavy art thou? cont.

[Richard Ewald]

At those prices you might want to check out a Serpent Express
http://www.serpentexpress.com/
Rick

On 7/4/07, cyberemp at comcast.net <cyberemp at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hello list.
> Thank all of you for your responses.
> Concensus seems to be the weight of car is near 2,500lbs.  I'll have to go
> with
> the 280Xlbs number.
>      Trailer advice points towards a dual axle, elect. brake flat
> bed.(because
> car will be stripped down and illegal for even touching the sacred streets
> of
> California without license, lights, windshield). Aluminum trailer
> preferred, but
> the cheapest I could find one in this area was $4850.00. Ouch!
> I also hear the horror stories of Uhauls. I will seek used aluminum and
> steel
> trailers. I can overhaul the bearings, brakes , lights, tires  before I
> use.
> Hopefully not surpassing the price of a new trailer as I do so.
> My Mig welder says it will weld aluminum.(reverse polarity, aluminum wire)
> I
> wonder if I can build a trailer from a kit?
> My Nissan towing capacity is 3500 lbs unladen for manual, 5000 lbs unladen
> for
> an automatic .It doesn't say what the average wing velocity is for an
> unladen
> swallow.
> African or European.
> I suspect that Nissans lower weight capacity is for clutch
> warantee, but I don't think the highway parol will give me a break on
> that,
> since mine is a manual transmission, But I'll check, since even an
> aluminum
> trailer with MG would put me over 3500lbs, though I'm not calculating
> stripped
> down weight. No engine, transmission, interior, windshield,Gigantibumpers
> on
> 74.5, Lights, spare, jack, fuel.
> I plan on setting up electric winch to pull car onto trailer, since it
> won't
> drive up.
> -----------------
> Fate of four fenders still undecided
> #s are
> 457-340
> HZA4224 LH F
>
> 457-360
> HZA410? RH F
>
> 457-150
> hza4225 LH R
>
> 457-130
> H2A4224 RH R.
>
> Also included at no additional cost!!
> two sills, outer, lower.
> LH OE 457-150
> RH OE 457-160
>
> some error may have occurred in my number transcription. No warrantee
> expressed
> or implied with these numbers, parts, or bubble wrap. Blah blah blah.
>
> --
> Eric
> 46 MGTC
> 59 MGA
> 65 MGB
> 70 MGB
> 71 MGB
> 74.5 MGB
> 00 Nissan X-Terra 5-speed.
> So many cars, so little parking
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