twin cam

[Ray]

i saw a most remarkable looking mk1 escort twin cam getting rather wet on the back of a beavertail transporter on the M1 in yorkshire today, (it looked real and not a copy)

 

was a real shame to see it getting saturated up there, and being an advert to thieves

 

that sort of car needs a covered transporter to keep it out of sight as well as dry

[Rally Pack 2000]

Mine just sits under a torn old tarp and ignored so must be a trend. Its under a carport though mostly out of the weather.

[Vista]

Yeah coz Oz is known for its torrential rain, frost and grit on the roads isn't it?

[Rally Pack 2000]

Yeah coz Oz is known for its torrential rain, frost and grit on the roads isn't it?

 

Hey we get storms, floods and hail (My Mk2 has a dent on the roof just behind the front windscreen where a tennis ball hail stone hit it) We even had a dust storm once that turned the cars red. True it doesnt snow here and we put salt on our chips not the road.

 

 

Mk2 out in a small hail storm

 

[Ray]

the value of a twin cam in the uk, i just couldnt believe my eyes TBH, if you have the money to own it, then at least spend the dosh to protect it

 

this is my car and its transport

 

 

and yes the transporter is also a business, i was driving it yeterday without the cover when i saw the twin cam

[Rally Pack 2000]

Thats one pretty clean and immaculate car transport. The last time I had my Twincam towed after it shot the piston and rod out of the clutch slave cylinder onto the motorway off ramp the truck they sent was an old pull behind with a leather bumper pad. The procedure bent one of the front bumperettes. By the looks of it car transport has gone luxury these days.

[colr6]

We have the same with bikes, you see these people trailoring bikes through the rain and advertising what they've got. I take mine in covered trailor and usually unload away from everybody and ride them into a show so no- one sees how they got there and how there transported away and where to. Security is fully alarmed garages with cameras bikes chained to the floor and if that fails a side by side long thing normally stops them, then if they get passed that it's the WIFE so 100% sure there not getting past her !

[stephens_xpack]

the value of a twin cam in the uk, i just couldnt believe my eyes TBH, if you have the money to own it, then at least spend the dosh to protect it

 

this is my car and its transport

 

 

and yes the transporter is also a business, i was driving it yeterday without the cover when i saw the twin cam

Are you a little restricted with what you can transport with that, looks great but looks only good for certain length and width cars?

Is business good, have thought about getting one myself and going solo with it many times....

[Ray]

yes you are quite restricted with it on, but it does what it was designed to, it takes my car lol, but i remove it for run of the mill everyday transporter work, although it does pick up a fair amount of expensive classic and hot rod work as well with it on, which is the market it was aimed at, normal transporters are 2 a penny, and getting work for them isnt easy, theres a lot of competition

 

legally the std 3.5 ton beavertails cant actually carry much anyway, most you see with anything much more than a small family car are operating overweight, especially the steel backed ones, the back on this is all aluminium to reduce the weght, and the floor construction is a newish design for strength, it also has air assisted suspension so it raises it and dosnt show the weight

 

generally you can tow more than you can carry with them as long as you leave the beavertail empty (train weight), but if you tow with any commercial vehicle for work purposes, you must have a tacho fitted and have the correct training to use it, another little european gem thats generally ignored lol, all ok till you get into a ministry pull over

 

a friend of mine has a steel backed one, and all it can legally carry is a ton, about a mk1 escort lol, and the bed isnt as strong as my aluminium one

 

there are a lot of additional operating costs and legislation to comply with by going bigger, and why its only the big outfits that generally go that way