[Vicegrip]

Unhook straps just it starts to rain and hail, get out of rain and hail, come out after it clears up to find a little surprise. Doh!

[bettyc]

Ouch! That hurts. Hope the damage wasn't too bad.

[BobNovas]

Oof!

[Trak Ratt]

Get TK to tell you about tyre chocks (not)

[markwemple]

Atleast the tires are in the right place for the ramps

[Eli]

Ouch...sorry to see that Kurt . How bad's the damage?

[87turbolook911]

Hope all is ok underneath....so what happened next? How did you get it back on the trailer or off?

[APKhaos]

Its so easy for stuff like this to happen, and we are still shocked when it happens. Looks like she went aground on the trailing arms, probably without anything being hurt. Hope so!

Summit Point early last year, I released the tiedowns with the trailer ramps down. The car was sitting waiting to be unloaded.
Got distracted when the Churches arrived with their brand spanking new enclosed trailer. A bunch of up walked over to ogle and congratulate, etc. Maybe 10 minutes passed, then we saw my car rolling along in the paddock, backwards, at a decent rate of speed. It had begun to roll, hit the ramps, and launched itself in to the paddock. I managed to get behind it in time to stop it before it collided with anything. A very close call, and another instance of how easily these things can happen. Doh!

David mentioned wheel chocks. After removing the engine, we were winching the carcass onto the trailer. Had to stop when the car was almost fully on [back wheels just short of the trailer deck] to reposition the winch. Wheels were chocked, of course.

Next thing we knew, the chock started to slide along the trailer deck as the car rolled back off the trailer, gaining speed and threatening to steer itself off the ramps. Dave was spreadeagled across the trailer bed trying to stop it with the winch line. Looked like a bass fisherman who had hooked a shark! I threw myself at the A pillar and tried to steer it and stop it at the same time [making a bad job of both]. We just managed to stop it before it ploughed into the fence beside David's drive. Double Doh!

So, you've all been warned. Don't park your car behind my trailer! Too risky!

[aubreym]

Originally Posted by Kurt Mickelwait

Unhook straps just it starts to rain and hail, get out of rain and hail, come out after it clears up to find a little surprise. Doh!

So I'm guessing that you just unhook the trailer (probably not fun and maybe dangeous), let the rear end impact the ground and drive it off????

If not, how did you get the car off? (or back on)

[Vicegrip]

The car was resting on the trailing arms only. (note that the rear susp is still partly loaded) I took two jacks and two plywood blocks and jacked the tires up a little. I was then able to pull the car back onto the trailer with the trailer wench. No harm, one man job,10 min to correct. The car was in first gear but the trailer was slanted and the compression might be down a little after 5 years of track duty on the motor.

I just noticed that Michele was watching from the front door.