Miata Mailing List: August 1997, Message #146
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From: 	"Bob Klingler" <bklingler@worldnet.att.net>

Subject: Re: Trailer Hitch

Date: 	Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:29:32 +0000





 Dennis:

> '95 Red and Tan (with spiffy new race tires, but no trailer hitch to tow

'em

> to next week's autox)





Sorry I can't help you with the hitch problem--but don't let the lacka

trailer keep you from an AutoX.  At least if you are running nothing bigger

than 225x50x14's, they will go in the car, with the top up.  One will slide

in on the back shelf, extending over the top of a second one in a vertical

position behind the passenger seat.  (Seat in the forward position and tire

sits on top of a box about 9" tall, to keep tire off the glove box.)  Now

push the seat back into the vertical position, and vola, room for two more

in the passenger seat, vertically with towels underneath to keep them up,

off the console, dash, and door upholstery.  Now you don't need a spare, so

the trunk is still empty! 



No, don't try to use the right mirror, it becomes useless.  Nobody said

AutoX was easy, but this solution will due till you get a trailer hitch. 

(It has worked for me for five years in '90 base; now '94R)   A 205x55x14

will even slide in the trunk, in a slippery garbage bag.



Who wants to be saddled with a trailer?  Oh, I get it, your significant

other wants to go along, or it's her car and she IS going along etc,

etc---better keep looking for a hitch, and let me know when you find one

that bolts to the inside rather than the outside of the frame down

supports, in place of the tie down hooks.  Maybe this design is too

logical--it seems to have eluded the experts!



	BK