“Necessity is the mother of invention”. You need something and it doesn’t exist, you make something that will address your need. Simple, right? From the simple bed to shipyard cranes, human beings are fantastic at creating solutions to problems that they are having via invention. Which is why I want you to take a moment and appreciate the flatbed, six-wheeled creation pictured. This is a homemade, bodge-job build whipped up with parts that cost little to nothing, yet it’s worked well enough that the seller has gotten fifteen or so years of use out of it. No, it’s not pretty, not even close. But it’s functional, and it’s creative.
What you are looking at is the frame of a double-wide trailer, strengthened up with angle iron, a sixteen-foot long sheet of steel plate that came from a water treatment tank, two axles that use the spindles from a Chevrolet Citation at each end, most of a 1980 Cadillac Seville, a 500ci Cadillac front-drive powertrain, a solar panel (makes up the back of the “cab”) and some sweat equity that put this mix together. You are looking at a home-built flatbed car hauler that has hauled hundreds of cars over the years. It ain’t pretty, for sure, but it’s not too far gone either. It runs and drives, and would be an ideal candidate for a LeMons race team or someone who likes the idea of having a car hauler but dreads the idea of climbing in and out of an International’s cab. Who knows…the last couple of times I found something this off-the-wall, the guys at Roadkill snapped it up and made it part of their fleet.
Craigslist Link: 1980 Cadillac Seville flatbed conversion
“Needs cosmetics and some maintenance “…now there’s an understatement.
I just hope the guy’s race cars aren’t as badly built as this….
“Needs cosmetics and some maintenance.” That’s like saying the Bismarck “has artillery and water damage.”
Maybe hauls around a black race car used for figure 8s
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