Re: [Chevelle-list] Trailering Your Chevelle

[Richard M. Pruett]

Larry,   If you are concerned about the straps damaging the paint, here's a trick I use to prevent rope burns on painted surfaces. When strapping the canoe to the top of the truck I wrap the rope, where it could touch the paint, with pipe insulation. It's available at Lowes or Home Depot, it's cheap, sizes to fit 1/2" to 4" pipe and comes pre-slit. Easy to cut foam; works good for that application.   Just a thought!   Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Post To: The Chevelle Mailing List ; Chevelle List Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] Trailering Your Chevelle When we trailered my '69, we looped around the tires in front.  I don't know if that would be possible with the straps you have, but worth a shot. -Matt At 08:20 AM 9/29/2005, Larry Shouse wrote: It's time to take my 66SS "shell" to my body and paint guy this weekend. I just loaded the car onto the trailer. Not wanting to wrap chains around anything on my freshly painted chassis, I went to the trailer store and bought a four corner strap tie down system. In a nutshell, it's two straps with a hook at both ends and a "D" ring that you can move up and down the strap so you can loop the straps around something like the rear end on each side and hook the other end to your trailer, plus two more straps which are the same except they both have heavy duty ratcheting buckles on them.   My question is, I can run two of the straps around the rear end housing in the back, but where do do you all use for anchoring points in the front of the car???     Thanks, Larry Shouse