Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] Grandpa's Boat
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 08:09:28 -0500
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I'll stick to GM's recommendation. That car was WAAAAAY too expensive to 
risk f--king up. I think next summer I might buy an old beatup used pickup 
to carry it in. I don't want to spend a lot of money, since I would only use 
it for transporting the boat and on the rare occasions when I need to haul 
something.

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?On 12/21/22, 7:43 AM, "LUG on behalf of Douglas Barry" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
imra at iol.ie> wrote:

    On 21/12/2022 03:34, Christopher Crawford wrote:
    > My grandpa carried it in his pickup bed. Its light enough that one 
person can load it and unload it if you're careful. My grandma gave me the 
truck after he died and I drove it for several years until the transmission 
died and the cost to fix it was more than it was worth. I had a Crown 
Victoria after that and I have a small trailer for the boat that the Crown 
Vic could pull. My current car is a Cadillac CTS and the owners manual says 
that it was not designed to tow a trailer and should never be used for that. 
I'll take GM at their word on that; the car was too expensive to risk 
damaging it.
    >
    
    Fitting a tow bar to any unibody car can be done quite easily and 
    shouldn't damage the car provided it's done properly by a professional 
    and you're not continuously towing on very bumpy roads for any distance.
    https://thefunoutdoors.com/rvs/can-a-cadillac-cts-tow-a-trailer/
    
    Mind you, Ric's suggestion of the four sneakers is a lot cheaper and 
    probably quite effective and practicable especially if you don't have 
    too far to drive to water.
    
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