[Mgs] Flat towing

[Douglas McKinnie]

Thanks for all the assistance. My GT is now safely moved from the
Massachusetts Berkshires to the Nashville vicinity. 800 miles being towed on
clear roads on Saturday and Sunday, and the last 200+ driven on account of
last-night's snowfall.

I made up an angle-iron front-bumper to bolt the universal towbar to. I
wondered where to connect the safety chains on the MG, as connecting them to
the bumper-brackets seemed a bit superfluous -- like chaining the towbar to
itself for safety. In the end I looped the chains through the A-arms and
adjusted them so that they wouldn't drag.

It was a great experience, and most of the time I didn't even notice that the
car was behind me. At one point I must have somehow snagged the cable to the
magnetic stop-turn-tail lights, because it snapped and I had to stop and put
in a splice, but other than that it was smooth going. It was much easier than
I expected to maintain a double-safe following distance in traffic on
I87/84/81.

As I teach most of the year and then work in New England for the summers,
towing the MG on this route may become a regular habit. It is nice for us to
each have a car while we are up there.

Douglas
'70 MGB-GT