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: How to attach a trailer hitch ti a vette?


85L98-84L83
08-28-2009, 04:12 PM
I want to pull a boat how do I attach a trailor hitch to my vette? Its an 85 vette.

Paulie Lugnuts
08-28-2009, 04:50 PM
All the venders sell them. I've got one to tow my race tires with.
I hope your boat is small.

Mike Gallagher
08-28-2009, 06:02 PM
In my younger years I had a hitch first on my 64 vert then on my 69 t top. I pulled a 17' Dutchman Tunnel Hull - 4 seat, 125hp Merc short shaft, black base with silver flake. The combo turned heads

toobroketoretire
08-28-2009, 06:16 PM
I want to pull a boat how do I attach a trailor hitch to my vette? Its an 85 vette.


Do you have a steel crossmember running from side to side? My '82 has a "C" shaped aluminum crossmember that is only 3/16" thick. Much too lightweight and thin to ever bolt anything like a trailer ball to. Maybe a TINY trailer just big enough to load a lawnmower in, but certainly nothing much larger than that.

todd_vette
08-28-2009, 07:01 PM
I have a factory one i would sell fairly cheep. It is kind of a pain to get the 4 holes drilled just right for but it attaches to the rear frame very solid.
I could be coaxed into making another one like on mine (i replaced the one i am selling with it) but only if you swear to never tow anything over 1000lbs on it. It isn't rated and i wouldn't want any accidents. My trailer is only about 400lbs empty and about 200-300lbs is all i would put in it. You can see what i have on mine now here; http://todd-vette.tripod.com/mycarpics/index.album/this-is-my-hidden-hitch?i=17
Having some-one make the receiver was a little expensive though.
You will have to find your own camaro or firebird lic. plate frame to put over it and you must remove the rear facia to install it. It is simple to install after facia is off.

hokies83
08-28-2009, 07:06 PM
a hitch on a corvette LOL DAM! and i tought i was a redneck ! looks like ive found a bunch of them this is to all u other red necks beers on me
:beerbang: :cheers: :burnout:

85L98-84L83
08-28-2009, 07:15 PM
a hitch on a corvette LOL DAM! and i tought i was a redneck ! looks like ive found a bunch of them this is to all u other red necks beers on me
:beerbang: :cheers: :burnout:

How do I get this free beer?

hokies83
08-29-2009, 05:05 AM
How do I get this free beer?

ha come to roanoke VA and ill hand out free beers :cheers:

Tblt44
08-29-2009, 01:42 PM
Buy a truck to pull a boat

86 vett vert
08-29-2009, 04:13 PM
I want to pull a boat how do I attach a trailor hitch to my vette? Its an 85 vette. just add a fifth wheel setup in the back hatch like you said in the other post??:smilielol5: :smilielol5: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hehehe: and please post photos:thumbsup: