Who says small cars can't carry big loads?
 

On my way home the other night on I-4, I passed this guy.

He had that Smart car loaded down and was doing about 50 mph, and when I passed him it looked a lot like he might be living in it

Go to any 3rd-world country and you'll see lots of overloaded small cars.

Wow. :D

At least for better aero he didn't stick it all on the roof!

Metro, it was probably easier this way.

I usually see compact cars with overloaded roof racks, but trailers seem to have become popular nowadays (at least where I live).

I miss my perceived cargo capacity of my neon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...20neon/log.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...510001918a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...09081808-1.jpg

The most was when I had an engine in the trunk, a transmission in the back seat, misc parts, and my friend/myself in the front both knocking on 250lbs. Barely had any trouble.

I read that the Insight has a rating of 400lbs for all passengers/cargo, I'm in the high 220lb range now and that really cuts it down! I have had myself and a friend who could be 300lbs without issue in there. If I needed to replace a strut on the neon, it's cheap. The Insight is expensive. I take more care going over bumps now.

With gas prices staying low I almost feel like it was the worst time to buy. It's neat getting great mileage but currently it's costing me money.

Add yourself a trailer hitch on the back like Ecky did!

He towed everything he owned up north behind his Insight a couple of months ago . . .

Love it! Here is fire wood loaded into my Civic from (removed) front and rear passenger seat area all the way to the back of the trunk compartment. All linings removed. "Super mini enclosed pick-up."

http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-ca...-cord-wood.jpg

james

Wish I had a photo of me (6'2" tall) and friend (6'3" tall) driving to the lake in my Subaru with a stand-up jetski inside. We both put the seats fully forward with back rests fully upright. The nose of the jetski touched the windshield and the stern touched the rear hatch door.

The lengths young guys will go to to ride a crappy jetski is amazing.

Jump starting the crappy jetski
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...nt/jumpski.jpg

My friend riding the crappy jetski
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...8833nu0mrj.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...8867ot1lsi.jpg

I briefly had a paper route with my Prelude, but after six weeks, another clutch went out, and I was fired, even though I immediately informed my supervisor that my car broke down, borrowed my mechanic's wife's bike and rode it several miles to pre-fold the Sunday paper, so that whoever covered for me had the least work possible.

My first Sunday, I fit 250 papers in my car. As I went to leave the parking lot, I heard grinding, stopped, and realized that the car was much higher than it was supposed to be. I was bottoming out on level ground! The first time that I turned, there was an avalanche, and I needed to throw papers back onto the passenger side. After that, I always made two trips, and had so many people complain that their papers were late, that I actually lost money. I probably lost money overall with that job.

I used to put the kayak up on my Festiva to go to the lake. The kayak was a longer than the car.
Before I got a riding mower, I made two small ramps from 2X6's and would shove my push mower, weed eater and blower into the back of the Festiva to go mow yards. That car could actually hold a LOT.

Sounds perfectly reasonable from my 3rd-world perspective :D

2 bales of hay, plus 3x 50lb sacks of feed. Bonus air filters.
Could have fit 4 bales with careful tetris work.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-pa...5-hay-feed.jpg
http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-pa...-feed-side.jpg

who says
 

Now you're just pushing it aerohead.

https://1a6714e2-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites....attredirects=0

It looks like Aerohead's file faded in the sun. According to Tineye, that is a sailplane trailer: https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...safety-section

first the obligatory motor hauling, the vx motor coming home last weekend to start my build.


the second was a few years back when i was transporting a 425lb atlas stone for strongman training.

Did the Atlas stone move around at all? :)

I had it behind the hump in the floor board so it didn't move much just side to side a little scrapped the door panel.


It moved about 45" up when I loaded it on to a platform in my workout later that day :cool:

Wouldn't it have been a better workout had you just pushed it home? :D

Just hope it wasn't an uphill trip home.
https://i214.photobucket.com/albums/...s/Sisyphus.gif

1,000-lbs costs 2-mpg
 

back in the 80's I drove to Los Angeles and picked up a load of NiCad batteries for my PV system.
Loaded,the rig was a half ton over original weight of the solo car.
I averaged 50-mpg at 55-mph,a 2-mpg loss.
http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...ntitled-10.jpg
If I ever finish this thing she might do a bit better.

A stove. :D

I used the 2x4's as a ramp to slide it up and in, and later down and out by myself.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-pa...stove-back.jpg
http://ecomodder.com/forum/member-pa...stove-side.jpg

It's a cheap used one I found on Craigslist to go in the rental house.