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While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Watch This: The Epic Tradition of Loading a Trailer

Posted September 09, 2020 10:04 AM by dstrohl
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Much like the trucks we pull them with, you can't live this life without a trailer. And there are two types of gearheads: those who own trailers and those who borrow/rent/beg/need a trailer. Now, if you've been getting the Muscle Machines newsletter in your inbox every Thursday, you know we're huge fans of the best hot rod shop in the greater Boyertown, Pennsylvania area, Iron Trap Garage. These guys seem to always be extracting, hosing off, pushing, pulling, lifting, building and driving some of our favorite revival hot rods.

Now, this particular Iron Trap video is really about a '34 Ford Tudor and a Deuce 5-window that he'd been working the deal on for quite some time. This crowning moment in any hot-rodder's life was recorded for posterity and, y'know, we couldn't be more enthralled by the whole thing. This is what dreams are made of, after all: dragging a car into the daylight for the first time in decades so you can see what you just bought, for better or worse. But it's all fun, no matter the outcome.

But, as we take a deeper, longer look at this particular video, we find ourselves more interested in how the guys load the trailers, once we get past the waves of envy and fits of glee, of course. As most of you probably know, there are a few ways to correctly load a trailer and a few hundred thousand wrong ways to do it. And not only that, but when you're loading a car that hasn't moved since the Johnson administration, there are even more ways to get real sketchy, real fast.

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09/10/2020 9:19 AM

is there a link to watch the video?

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09/10/2020 9:37 AM

Link added, sorry about that!

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