where did you get the trailer hitch?

 

Why do people put those shutter things on the rear windows and hatch?

I'll never understand that- must be an eighties thing.

 

I pulled a small homemade trailer between Abilene and Los Angeles a couple of times...

And contrary to popular opinion, you can easily pull a small trailer with a Rex. You know, jet ski/snow mobile trailer. Don't think I'd try a big ol' honkin' RV trailer though!
The hitch was special ordered and installed by U-Haul.

 

The shutter things are called louvers I believe. And they look cool! Well, I like it only on the rear hatch on not on the side windows IMO. To each his own right?


About the trailering, can 12A cars pull one as well? I don't think the 13B would have a problem, and I've never driven a 12A car. Does it matter?

 

I would not tow any more than 1,200 lbs behind a rex. I don't think it matters whether its a 12A or 13B. More importantly, make sure your coolant system is in good working order and your drive train is up to the task.

 

you'r fired...
it is illeagle by the supreme court as of 1985 to pull a trailer with a sports car

 

LOL the Supreme Court says so?

I've seen Vettes tow their race wheels everywhere...

 

Sad, yet hilarious--- Dead turkeys can be a bitch.
Reminds me of the story of a major jet engine manufacturer (Rolls Royce?) that was testing their engines for resistance to bird strikes by the standard procedure of tossing dead turkeys into the turbofan intakes while running at cruise throttle setting.
They couldn't figure out why the turkeys, rather than being instantly vaporized by the engines, would instead cause the 7-figure-priced engines to self-destruct immediately upon ingesting the turkeys.
Until the memo came down from head office imploring them to THAW THE TURKEYS before feeding them to the engines!

 

I work with a material engineer who worked at what ever engine manufacture that was.......he said they had a special turkey firing gun and he was one of the frozen turkey culprates, called it his dumbass moment.

 

All the engine mfg's do that with the turkeys. Its part of the certification process (oh and thats at TO [take off, max power] ). They shoot them in and if the fan comes apart it must stay contained in the engine. i.e., it cant go out through the fan shroud and possibly breach the fuselage and hurt/kill a passenger. Like Delta had happen a few years back on an MD-80. You should see the film of the GE90. 9 ft span, carbon composite blades ( La` Machine lol). Birds are an airliners enemy, like flak. We took a hit this week, bullseye on the radome. Dented it about a foot deep (musta been an albatross LOL). Didn't penetrate the radome though, just dented it enough to jam the radar antenna.

 

Yup, I knew it was std procedure---- but with non-frozen birds. The whole story about the frozen turkeys sounds more like urban legend than fact, but it's hilarious anyway.

 

I've actually performed a turkey shoot at Pratt and Whitney on a PW4000, the 767, 777 engines. I've seen videos of a turkey going into the compressor (most air gets ducted around the engine rather than through it) and also saw a 'blade out' that Carl was talking about. The kicker is that PETA did away with turkeys. They now shoot a gelatin-ish cube that's the same density and volume of a large turkey, but no more turkeys. Shame, they looked like they were having fun on camera.