We Bought A Ford Model A & Trailer At Auction & Tried To Tow It Home - Major Failure
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- Last weekend Matt was on his way to a wedding and purchased a 1929 Ford Model A Coupe, and a home made trailer at auction. Being the adventurous person he is, Matt decided that we would be going to pickup the car without a trailer and towing it home with the trailer he purchased. The plan sounded good on paper, but things unraveled quickly. The trailer tires were junk and we had to source replacements, thankfully Tyrone Tire and Auto hooked us up with lightly used trailer tires. After getting the new tires onto the freshly greased trailer, Matt and Mike work to hand winch the car up onto the trailer. This is where things go very wrong, but we won't give up the biggest failure of all!!
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The hitch height isn't the problem. There isn't enough weight on the tongue.
Agree 100%. needs more tongue weight. Definitely was not designed to haul that specific car. If the axle were about 10-12" back, or the car could come that far forward it probably would have towed like a dream.
Them guys aren't as smart as they look. Well maybe they are, cause they don't look too smart here. lol Anybody that has towed a trailer much would know that you can't tow a trailer that the weight is balanced like that. You need at least 200 to 300 lbs. of tongue weight for it to not have that hospital wobble.
possibly the car needs to back onto the trailor.....to change the weight distribution ,
a model A with a flathead v8 motor would be front heavy.........
I love watching you guys iam 81 years old and live on an old farm in Idaho i havd had 4 34 fords and a 61 ss chev bubble top 409 4 speed loved them all i wish i could work on them keep up the good stuff coming may Jesus bless you all
Guys when you get home move the trailer axle to the back 12 to 24 inch back it be good then and in my state the safty chains need hooked to the tongue and Chris cross so if the trailer comes unhooked the tongue falls on the chains and not the highway other then that its a dam nice trailer
Yeah, no tongue weight , axle needs to get moved back. I don’t know how anybody ever towed with that thing. Unless they put one of those Y- blocks on the tongue.
Thank you Matt & Mike for saving another Model A!
Correct you need 10% of your total weight of the trailer on the tongue
I'd love to have that Hack. I once pulled a 1 ton chevy panel from Nashville to Atlanta on a tail-heavy trailer with a station wagon. It got away from me once and nearly passed me... ended up making the trip at 35mph.
This got to be the craziest trailer tow home. No risk no reward y'all tried it . The car looks really restorerable. There are still car's out there to be found even where you left the car it the yard I saw a cool truck in the back ground look like a Studebaker? Those make cool hot rodz
Another great adventure. I miss doing that stuff. Drug so many things home on the edge of disaster. The best of times. I’m digging the Stude pick up at the garage
Matt is as happy as a kid on Christmas and Mike is as unhappy as the Grinch who stole Christmas. Hahahaha. The hot rod life.
Suspect that trailer was originally built to haul an old sprint car or other kind of racer shorter than a model A. Remember seeing similar trailers in some old photos of a circle track where my oldest cousin used to race.
Can’t win them all! But trying is the fun part!
I got a homemade Model T trailer when I bought a stash of parts and while it tows nicely I made the mistake of looking underneath it while doing tires and only the top half is welded!!!!😮
Every joint on the bottom side has 0 welds!!!!
The stuff you find!!!!
Another great adventure guys!😁
What great fun! My Model A pickup rescue, 50 some years ago, had a 2 inch diameter tree growing up through the floorboard and out the roof. - - - No sweat the farmer had an axe.
It’s all part of the fun of this crazy hobby we love.
Matt, always love the way you keep things era correct! Need a 49 ford sedan to tow that rig
My Dad had several of them, one old girl that had a center headlight that turned with the steering! Keep on saving the old cars, btw it’s never a failure if your having fun!!
Been there, done that. I towed an Airstream Motorhome back from Maine to Connecticut with the trailer swaying anytime it got over 35 MPH, I had to give up an hour away from home and have it towed by a friends dad with a F7000 dump truck and Seeger Beaver, and he said he couldn’t believe how heavy it was on his trailer, he figured I was just scared until he towed it the last hour
Never fail when you find a score like that
That was a massive auction hence brought crazy money for most vehicles license plates signs etc. Remember hearing about Chetty for years was old school restorer used lead and was 1- man operation at least got to see what all he amassed in his profession and talk with some friends sad to see collections dispersed but at least vehicles will be given new life took picture standing next to tire machine on skid back of building cast stand probably weighed a ton
Never fun towing a light on the front load , great find always fun to watch thanks
Hi, after towing car trailers for 14 years most weekends I learned a lot about loading old cars/ race cars on them, to get yourself out of trouble you could have lashed the big trolley jack on the very front of the trailer to increase its nose weight and made it tow better, even a big can of petrol (gas) or water would have helped out..But living Is Learning eh.. Thanks - Ian- UK
"Accidentally bought" yep sounds convincing...
I can tell one thing the first minute of the video, Matt & Mike we're not in Michigan!! Those roads were nice!!
HA!
Definitely one of the strangest adventures you guys have ever took us subs with you on.
That old car is definitely gonna be an interesting restoration in a future series.
I hope you do restore it Matt and Mike.
I'm in my 70's and I've always dreamed of owning an old fixer upper truck, wish I lived near you, I'd buy it out right.
Maybe a PITA, disapointment and time waste for y'all, but this is a retrieval y'all will remember for years & years and the memories will improve with each passing year. I can safely say that, 'cause I did similar crazy stunts decades ago. Great video with some particularly great camera shots. Thanks for the memories.
It LOOKED cool while it lasted though! Another great score!
I saw where a guy added a comment that there is not enough tongue weight. He is correct. You could add more weight in front of the trailer axle and it would not sway.
A great video is not a great video with out 27+ ads, love it
The videos are shot and put on TH-cam for free. Much like public television the ads are what pays for the content to be made. You can go back to Sunday football if you like their ads better.
Fails are Wins too. If you can't have fun at what you are doing, don't do it. This was definitly a fun one. Ty for taking us along
Matt always on the hunt. It’s a great barn find. Congratulations on wedding. And another car. Awesome!
It would of towed fine pulled by a car. I remember my Dad pulling a car home on a janky trailer with a 66 Corvair. The hitch only bolted to the Corvair's bumper so it was just perfect. We got pulled over outside of Kansas City, Mo because the trailer and the car didn't have any tail lights. Good times!
1930 Model A Coupe is my personal favorite a car that will outlast practically everything on the road today
Awesome video today reminds me of the day's my brother and I used to flat tow old cars from peoples properties 50 years ago ! at the age 20 they were fun adventures. Email me when you get a chance I might be interested in the fenderless coupe.
I used to do a lot of flat towing also. It's illegal now. At least it is here in Oregon.
The very first time I did it I had just started working at a gas station in Phoenix Arizona in 1974. I was 18 years old. My new boss told me to get in his truck because we had a job to do. On the way there he told me we would be towing a car back to his station and explained to me how it worked. I was flabbergasted to learn that I would be doing all the braking for both us. It was a big car and a big pickup and the car had no vaccum so no power brakes. It took A LOT of pressure to get the brakes to do their job. Things started out okay but then my boss started going faster and faster until we're flying through downtown phoenix at 60 MPH and I'm not getting much help from the brakes. We somehow made it back safe and sound but I was a wreck. My boss said "good job" and he had me do it many times after that. He didn't have a tow truck. I now use a tow bar and magnetic lights that are wired into my truck. We did a lot of sketchy things when we were young and happily we lived through all of it. But we had a great time and learned so much. I never really had a mentor so my friends and I just went for it.
We screwed up sometimes but we eventually figured most stuff out. There were some old guys that would sometimes give us advice but we had to be careful because they didn't always tell us everything so they could get a little entertainment form our adventures. I wouldn't call them mentors but they usually helped us with their knowledge and experience. I wish I could find a young person to mentor, or at least help, but most kids today just don't seem interested.To be fair, todays cars are not easy to work on. On my daily driver I can change the oil and a couple little things but after 6 years I still haven't even seen the splark plugs. And you can't even check the transmission fluid.
the trees are beautiful up there
Hey guys, quite an adventure, enjoyed watching it....Ralph
Hey guys, adventures, thanks for the video
Alright! You got a period correct trailer for the track roadster. Set the shop truck up to tow it and you're set. Be a cool set-up for a car show.
You guys are the greatest! Always amusing, ready to try anything. Even your fails are wins in my book. It's making the effort that counts, Your win/lose ratio is still heavily in favor of the wins. In the long run that's what counts. I love that you respect and revere the old school hot rodding. Yeah a LOT of the early cars were pretty sketchy. But those were pioneering days for the sport, technology was primitive. No migs or tigs or plasa cutters, we're talking ox-acetylene rigs, and if you were lucky arc welder. The old young and dumb was a huge factor too. I look back at some of my early rods, and think how lucky I was to have lived through owning them. NO way I'd drive a death trap like that now! Sadly in spite of the progress, I still regularly see cars put together by hacks. I bought a 38 Chevy pickup a few years back, (for the body mainly) was running, guy asked did I want to test drive it? My answer? Not even around the block on a bet! Afraid I insulted him with the truth. He really thought the guy who helped him build it knew what he was doing.
I'm from Western Pennsylvania, cool find !!
This brings back memories.
Nice find guys.
fun to watch thanks
Oh dear, so close and yet so far. If you could have shifted the A forward it might have helped. Front wheels off maybe? Lose the wheel stops at the front of the trailer. Take weight off the back of the load - bumper off. Ramps off. All easy to say but a lot harder to do on the side of the road. I hope the second go around goes better. All the best, Mart in England.
Thanks for the video. The visuals of late fall in PA makes me a little homesick. Good luck on your next adventure. I'm not a car guy, but I look forward to your videos.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Straight Ahead ✌😎
Fun times and adventures.
yes sir looking at the axle placement on that trailer i sort of figured there would be a tracking problem, and of course with a different tow vehicle it sure made it harder to tow and if you got over the speed you were towing at and that trailer gets to swaying too much it can sure put you all over the road. been there and done that. but you gave it the old college try.
Nice find.
Yeah, no tongue weight is a recipe for 'the fishtail frights'. Just move that axle back a foot on the trailer and it will be good.
Not a bad looking Model A once it's cleaned up!! Hope you're gonna spend some time trying to get that banger to run!! Those are always fun and "indestructible"!! A "fun" video watching you guys do the "Vise Grip" imitation!! ;o)
A minor failure at worst. A major failure would have been upside down in the ditch. Thanx for another cool video, guys!
Love the adventure…
That trailer is so cool. Should get some sort of vintage built hotrod on it and tow it with the model A. Would look amazing
If you come back to get it, check out Swigart Museum in nearby Huntingdon. Great auto and memorabilia collection.
Got a friend that put me in situations like that!👍
Got a window van, I've hauled 7 pig,two calves and the kicker was a full grown mule! Inside my van 🤔
Pigs a couple trips, calves one trip and mule! I got pulled over on that trip 😂
The cop didn't pull me over for the mule, didn't even enquire about the mule 🤣his back was about 1/foot from roof his head was in between me and my friend 🤣😂🤣
Cop just wrote the ticket and left 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👍
Very professional job 👍🇺🇸👍😂
Very cool 😎
🤣😂 Great video! Maybe you could move the axle back on the trailer a foot or two, but you folks already know that. Tom and I look forward to see what happens on this project.
nice studebaker pickup
Definitely one for the books
Cool find, looks perfectly sketchy I figured you would just turn it into a weekend trip and buy a collection of parts on the way home!!
All good fun anyway. Another gem into the garage. 🇦🇺🇦🇺
All you need is a cheap sway control and it would solve that problem. I fought that same thing with a trailer and did everything you did to try to fix it but it wasnt till I put a $25 sway control on it that I got that problem resolved and now Im able to run 75mph will no issues
2R Studebaker truck at the tire shop.
I'd rather have that truck.
" ..... 3 hours home"
🎶..... a three hour tour.... 🎵
enjoyed that.
Hey at least your adventure worked out better than the last group of people who went on a 3 hour cruise 😂
Maybe you could have just thrown a couple of 100 pound bags of cement on the front of the trailer to get some more weight up front. Or have Mike stand on the tongue. 😁You'd just need to keep an eye out for speed bumps.
Nothing like a janky, super sketchy old car adventure. I remember that awful paper mill smell whenever we drove near Tyrone 😀
You'd love Mobile Alabama in the summer with the wind blowing south.
The air would actually make your eyes water working on the flight line at the Coast Guard Airstation doing inspections.
All maintenance was done in the hangers doirs closed on those days.
I spent two summers there (78/79) TAD for their Aviation Cadet training program.
Cool Studebaker truck at the tire shop
Accidentally bought a model A coupe. Famous last words as a married man. LoL.
That was a pretty bad idea. I wouldn't trust that trailer after a complete inspection, let alone straight off the property
A big-block chevy block bolted to the hitch pole would have taken care of the problem!!!LOL
You guys are amazing with your finds. I can live vicariously through your videos as if I was there. Thank you so much for sharing.
You would be getting a ticket for riding in the back of the truck here in Kansas ! It didn't use to be that way when I was young but that was about 67 years ago ! 😆 🤣 😂
the only thing missing from this adventure was , " WINE / WOMEN / & SONG " just a couple of " PIRATES " on another " booty- haul " !!!!!!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDEOS !!!!!
You guys seem like good guys too good to be sending them bad words like you do
Model A in a barn, home made trailer, what could go wrong??? BAWHAHAHAHA that was nuckin' futs!
Thumbs up cause it's a cool car not thumbs up to the problems.
Shit happens , still a treat , good score ! Attaboy
Easy fix, take the ramps off & hang them on the front bumper then take the front wheels off & drag it forward.
Bumps are hard on hemorrhoids ! 😆 🤣 😂
I towed my wifes old 56 chevy home with my 100 ft 1inch rope. Just doubled it up to get the car ten feet behind me.
The odds of things not going as planned is directly proportional to how far from home you are.
Best comment! HaHA!
A 3 hour tour ...🤣🤣🤣
3 hours huh. We all saw how well that worked out for Gilligan and the skipper
All you need is more tongue weight, not a height problem. Trailer tongue weight should be 10-15% of the total trailer weight, otherwise you get sway. All you needed to do is to strap your truck spare or something else heavy on the front (ie ahead of the axle) of the trailer.
The trailer was probably designed to be pulled by a 60s car. A bumper hitch on that would be about 8 inches high.
I one a upon time tried to tow a willys pickup with my lite duty Toyota pickup I was fish tailing allover the road . Then the tow truck guy who was old to be my son put a heavy duty transmission in the Tacoma bead and made it back to Nevada. When I got it home I realized the body and bead were all unbolted.and ready to fall off the frame no straps how lucky I the cab or bead did not fall off in the middle California and Nevada highway 15. Could been very disastrous. Jonathan Stone
I have patina'd reflectors for the coupe headlights
A very smart (the sky is the limit) non-intrusive (short in duration) way to plug an online auction for one of your cars.
Such places always make me think about the previous owner of all of these things, someone possibly had lots of plans and then for one reason or the other they are all put on hold and they sit and rot until it is too late :(
Maybe some diagonal braces from each front corner of the frame to near the front of the tongue will prevent those crazy oscillations. Seems like every home built trailer with that design is a bear to pull.
Lowering the front of the trailer will not change the weight balance. The trailer is tail-heavy. Moving the car forward, or moving the axle back, is the only remedy. The tongue should carry 10% of the total weight. You showed that the tongue has absolutely no weight on it.
I think about 3-400 pounds of cement blocks on the front of the trailer would have made a big difference. Probably could have lined them up in the tire channels and hung a few from the bumper.... or use bungee cords and stack up those tires on the draw bar. If we're gonna go sketchy then might as well go whole hog.
You know the tire shop guys are alright if there's a Studebaker truck back there were you stashed it.
If it were me in my situation, I would have towed it back at 30mph and avoided highways.
A freind of my daughter borrowed my trailer once, I haven't seen it since.
I.'ve been told that the correct weight ratio is 60%up front to 40% out back.
Couldve just swung by goodwill and grabbed somethin heavy...2 45 lb weights and strapped em to the tongue!
Yeah, that's one for the blooper reel. 😬
Make a banger rod out of this model A
"Drove when parked" eh? 😁
Man that depot hack has the look.