whats your opinion on this ???

My father still swears enclosed trailers hurt the sport for young kids ...he means when he was younger(60s) it was all open trailers and as a young kid in a car with his father you would be in awww over looking at the car going by down the road or gas station .

i agree to a point ... i told him in some case but if the kids are gonna be introduced to drag racing its gonna happen no matter what . he also understands why we use enclosed trailers , and i have a 28ft united


This topic is irrelevant but i figuare id share .

Back in the stone ages when I started going to the drags in mid/late 60's,nobody had a car trailer.Towbars were used.

Back in the stone ages when I started going to the drags we mounted a tire on the front bumper and tied a rope on the rear bumper and would push one and pull one at the time.

You walked up a hill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes too?

And you where Thankful...........

bbf-falcon wrote:Back in the stone ages when I started going to the drags in mid/late 60's,nobody had a car trailer.Towbars were used.

That's what I thought too, Rick. I built a tow bar for the Gal that attaches to the crossmember. Took it with us in my wife's Sport Trac, she followed me. I drove the Gal about 50 miles to the strip when I ran it, BANG I broke the rearend . Cost me $250 for a rollback to get it home .
Oh well, I'm still going to take it the next time, although I trust Randy's work . Maybe I'll even tow it there. Can't find a good used open trailer cheap enough.

GT300TD wrote:

bbf-falcon wrote:Back in the stone ages when I started going to the drags in mid/late 60's,nobody had a car trailer.Towbars were used.

That's what I thought too, Rick. I built a tow bar for the Gal that attaches to the crossmember. Took it with us in my wife's Sport Trac, she followed me. I drove the Gal about 50 miles to the strip when I ran it, BANG I broke the rearend . Cost me $250 for a rollback to get it home .
Oh well, I'm still going to take it the next time, although I trust Randy's work . Maybe I'll even tow it there. Can't find a good used open trailer cheap enough.

You ain't kidding junk used ones were getting $1500 around here so I bought a real nice new one for $2400.

5pointslow wrote:My father still swears enclosed trailers hurt the sport for young kids ...he means when he was younger(60s) it was all open trailers and as a young kid in a car with his father you would be in awww over looking at the car going by down the road or gas station .

i agree to a point ... i told him in some case but if the kids are gonna be introduced to drag racing its gonna happen no matter what . he also understands why we use enclosed trailers , and i have a 28ft united


This topic is irrelevant but i figuare id share .

Well we can thank TV IVO,and BILLY MYER< FIRST TO USE A SEMI,and TOMMY was one of the first to use an enclosed


but we all need more room,thats why im selling my enclosed

There are times that I would just like to load up on the open trailer but,the Falcon sets so low it drags on the dove tail.

i have an enclosed and its great as in i have an air compresser , winch cabinets all the nice things ......i guess you could have with an enclosed .

I cant recall my self the last time i saw a drag car on an open trailer that i have seen going down the road or highway , mostly see the roundy round guys using opens for there latemodels around here

I'm keeping the open Trailer concept alive here in Wisconsin.




Open yet Comfortable sleeping and eating Space.
And yes I still see the kids in Awww as I go through towns or am stopped at Stop lights .
Lots of Thumbs up's .


Dan