Original Race Car Transporters

[Randy V]

Then there's this;

Volkner Mobil Car-Carrying Motor Home Could Be Yours For $1.2 Million - Volkner Mobil Performance - Jalopnik

For a measly 1.2m it can be yours!!!!

 

[Leon]

I don't have a photo I can put on here but in Pete Lyons "Can-Am" book there is a photo of one of the private 906 spiders coming out of the back of the Bus that was used to transport the Mini Coopers in the orginal "Italian Job" How cool would that be!! Cheers Leonmac

 

[David Morton]

In 2004 I worked with Audi Team Veloqx, a team which was owned by a chinese guy Sam Lee. Sam was really a property developer in Shanghai and Hong Kong but really had a taste for the good life. He had a Ferrari - quite special apparently but he never let me have a go. And to move it around to the various continents he used to go to ? A Boeing 737.400 with dedicated flight crew and two 'plate layers'. Sam just loved to let you know you were a 2nd class guilo in his eyes.

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

...plate layers? I'm afraid to ask, but I'm asking....

 

[David Morton]

Cabin Crew. Flight Attendants. Air Hostesses. Talking Freight. Them that lay your place setting on the table in front of you when you are a passenger. Then they bring food on a plate and lay it in front of you. Hence 'Plate Layers'.......

 

[Jack]

David, do you have any definitions for those plate layers that can't fit down the ailse
but sideways?? Many of these of late.

 

[JimmyMac]

But my favorite would be the Futurliner, which never was a race car transporter, but a mobile show room for GM.

JP
Checking out these Futureliners.
One sold at Barrett Jackson Auctions for $4 millions.

Other GM Futurliners

 

[Victors]

Yes James, I think the one in my pictures is the one sold at Barret Jackson.

Then I saw another one in Auburn, IN this summer when I went for the Kruse Auction.

The Futurliner was displayed near the Auburn Museum.
The museum is a hidden treasure in Indiana and really worth the visit, beautiful art deco building which used to be the Cord / Auburn / Duesenberg show room when they built those cars in there, beautifully restored and fantastic cars.

Happy to show you around if you ever make it over here!

JP

 

[Jack]

I visited a couple of years ago and was quite impressed. The old offices and design studio shops are intact much as they were, design models and all. Amazed to learn that Auburn also built aircraft engines.

 

[John Kramer]

Nice pics.. I got also this old mercedes-benz car transporter trailer.

1991 Mercedes 300TE

One of coolest car transporter trailer..

 

[Paul W]

This is still in regular use - not by Lotus though, it lives fairly close to me.

 

[Jason Lindsey]

This is still in regular use - not by Lotus though, it lives fairly close to me.

Paul

Was this at Wings and Wheels last year? If so, I think my brother knows the owner.

Jas

 

[Jim Nelson]

Nice pics.. I got also this old mercedes-benz car transporter trailer.

1991 Mercedes 300TE

One of coolest car transporter trailer..

It's currently in the Mercedes museum...

 

[David in Durango]

Over the years, I've seen many different set-ups. My favorite stories are seeing Team McLaren and/or the Chapparals showing up at Can-Am races on flat trailers towed by a pickup w/ a spare motor in the bed. At the very next Trans-Am race Bud Moore showed up w/ two "moving van" like car haulers. One had a qualifying car for Parnelli, as well as his race car. The other had a car for George Follmer and spares - maybe even a lathe/drill press "machine shop."

The good old days?

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

Over the years, I've seen many different set-ups. My favorite stories are seeing Team McLaren and/or the Chapparals showing up at Can-Am races on flat trailers towed by a pickup w/ a spare motor in the bed. At the very next Trans-Am race Bud Moore showed up w/ two "moving van" like car haulers. One had a qualifying car for Parnelli, as well as his race car. The other had a car for George Follmer and spares - maybe even a lathe/drill press "machine shop."

The good old days?

The Team McLaren trucks were Ford F250s (from Smith-Norwich Ford. Bill Smith was an investor in McLaren, former school mate of Teddy Mayer, and a friend of our family) towing single axle tag trailers. Your local Spec Miata guy has a more sophisticated rig nowadays!

Remember when the Penske transporter was stolen after the Daytona Continental and the Lola T70 Coupe was never recovered?

 

[Jim Craik]

I remember going to Laguna Seca, early Friday morning before the 1970 Can Am race.

Team McLaren pulled in, remember, this was just after Bruce's death, but they were always well prepared.

They came in two white Chevy pickups, with plain aluminum bed covers. There was a M8D on a trailer behind each (no covers, just orange beauties), a spare nose on top of one pickup one and a spare tail on the other.

One pickup carried tools & wheels, the other spare motors..............Not to impressive, yet they ruled all.

My friend Doug and I helped them unload, and later in the day, when they roped off their pit area, they let us stay inside. We made ourselfs useful getting food and coffee. Tyler Alexander was a good guy, and it was quite a weekend.

Denny had burned hands from an Indy accident and Peter Gethin crashed, but Denny still won. All in all a great memory.

 

[Cliff Beer]

I like this one. Certainly original.

Looks better than the Mercedes transporter.

 

[Ron Earp]

I like this one:

Somewhat feasible for an amateur to build and operate.

 

[Pat]

To me, this is the transporter classic:

 

[Olf59]

das ist auch schön
gruß olf