Gooseneck trailer tips

[GregWeld]

Dan...... very cute!


You left off #5 -- sponsoring your car / engine / truck


Bonneville is on the bucket list!


Smaller living quarters - is exactly where I'm headed! I had the dealer (Sport Truck RV - Chandler AZ) send me his inventory thinking that maybe he had something already built that would work -- sadly the inventory is.... all white --- Cheap ass OAK cabinets --- and small motors (450hp MBZ).... The 14' toter was quoted at $175K.... I'm not spending that on small white oak ugly!


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As it turns out - the factory was having trouble with being overweight on the front axles of my designed rig.. so it most likely couldn't have been built the way I wanted it.


NBFFL

[GregWeld]

I was informed today that they can't build the 24' toter with the way I want it. Engineering can't seem to get the weight balanced and it's too much on the front axle.

So it's back to working with the dealer to find a happy medium. Unfortunately I'll be heading to Italy next week -- so it'll just have to wait. Oh well, I've been messing with this for 5 year now - another couple weeks ain't going to kill me.

[DBasher]

Step 5 isn't needed....yet. The Studebaker we run is fairly stock, running in the 130 club. If my math is correct, which it should be, we should get real close this year.
Bucketlist?? Just do it, it's pretty much the birth grounds of speed, the church of horsepower, the great white dyno.

I hear you on the oak, it reminds me of Kenny G and a bottle of merlot. The white isn't so bad, easy to change.

I looked at the website and tried to spend your money on something, it's tough. With all the info given on this thread I don't see anything they have that fits the bill. Cool stuff but, ehhh.
When you say 24' toter, how is that measured? The living quarters are 24' or the overall?

I hear Italy is nice this time of year, I'll be in Wenatchee, kinda the same.

Dan

[GregWeld]

24' is the living quarters floor space.... and that makes the "truck" 45'


I love Wenatchee! Great town and I had a great customer over there. I'll be at the Monaco Grand Prix. Is there a go kart race going on in Wenatchee? I may change my plans!


If I thought I was going to go to races every weekend with a bunch of guys and greasy hands etc - then I wouldn't care about the interior -- but I want to use it more like a motel on wheels with some toys with me... so then I get particular.

[sik68]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

24' is the living quarters floor space.... and that makes the "truck" 45'


I love Wenatchee! Great town and I had a great customer over there. I'll be at the Monaco Grand Prix. Is there a go kart race going on in Wenatchee? I may change my plans!


If I thought I was going to go to races every weekend with a bunch of guys and greasy hands etc - then I wouldn't care about the interior -- but I want to use it more like a motel on wheels with some toys with me... so then I get particular.

Have you been to Monte Carlo before, GW? It is like a different world; every thing and every one is dripping & oozing money & high fashion...a different level from anything I can find in the 'States for sure. We spent the day there pretending, trying to absorb what it's like to live so ostentatiously. The cheapest apartment we found (1br, no view, 1st floor) was E6m and another E300k for a SmartCar parking spot; not for us, haha. Have you ever thought about grabbing a vacation pad there?

If you have time, I highly recommend walking the track if you haven't before. I believe it must be obligatory for exotic car owners to goose it through the tunnel because every 30seconds or so you hear another v8, v10, v12 shrieking through.

Don't forget to pack your best Velcro shoes

[GregWeld]

Steven ---


I'll be the one there in cut off bluejeans - and a grease stained tshirt...
wearing my rolex Daytona of course!

Walking the track is great advice. I'm not sure we'll be able to do that but I'll try to. I think we'll arrive too close to when they're practicing etc so the course may already be in control mode.

Here's where we're staying - our room has a balcony on the Fairmont hairpin... and apparently you can see a good deal of the course from the roof which is set up to cater to "us" (people there for the Grand Prix).


Hotels

May 23 - 28 Monaco
Fairmont Monte Carlo
Phone - 011 377 93 50 65 00

May 28 - 31 Portofino, Italy
Hotel Splendido
Phone - 011 39 0185 267 801

May 31 - June 2 Siena, Italy
Hotel Castel Monastero
Phone - 011 39 0577 570001

June 2 - 5 Florence, Italy
Four Seasons Hotel
Phone - 011 33 055 2626 250

[Blake Foster]

Thanks for the contact numbers, just in case we ndde to get ahold of you.
lol
that should be a nice trip.

you should blend right in wiht the cut off's

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by killer69

Thanks for the contact numbers, just in case we ndde to get ahold of you.
lol
that should be a nice trip.

you should blend right in wiht the cut off's

Whattttttt........ <scratching noises in the background> Huh??..... we must have a bad connection....

[GregWeld]

To get this thread back on track ---- <pun intended> ---- I'm thinking (and I'd like to hear opinions) on maybe backtracking halfway... and going with the Sport Truck RV M2 chassis with a 450 MBZ diesel and a TWO car stacker with smaller living quarters up front. Maybe 14' of living quarter (on the flat floor) bedroom sleeping area in the overhead. I think I could do this in a 44' trailer... and the tractor part would be much smaller overall.

Will work on this more when we get back.

[Sieg]

Have your ran the hp to wt ratio's for each package?

The Sport Truck is small enough that it would add to the flexibility of the package and you can drop the trailer and go out on the town with the truck.