The long long trailer

[rickeoni]

I no it's not a TC, but we just watched the Long long trailer with Lucy . What great life it must have been to RV in the 50's .

[_DJ_1]

NMace wrote:

~DJ~ wrote:

NMace wrote:
I think it cute coming from a 7 yo, but he did not learn it from the tv show or their movies, it was never said. I suspect he has been listening to grandpa.

Great movie.

Yeah, Ricky said it OFTEN.

Lucy you have some splainin to do

Nope

http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/05/lucy-you-got-some-splainin-to-do.html

I guess it all depends on what/where/which internet website you go to!!! LOL

[_DJ_1]

camperpaul wrote:

~DJ~ wrote:

805gregg wrote:
There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

It had a special dolly to carry the tongue weight so all it had to do was pull it. Remove the tongue weight from the shuttle and a Toyota can pull it!!!

Remember:

The Hollywood Special Effects people can do almost anything.

Imagine:

Pulling the plug and draining Lake Michigan …

100,000 bulldozers filling the lake with vanilla ice cream …

Every fire department around the lake spraying it with hot fudge …

and the Blue Angels towing a 5,000 pound maraschino cherry and dropping it on top …

I think you get the picture …

Yeah, I don't think they had those capabilities in 1953!!!

[Robert78121]

raymondmom wrote:
In order to pull that trailer, all the car needed was Timbrens, SuperSprings, an anti-sway bar and air-bags.

It didn't even need any of that. As said previously, they used a special tow dolly that took on all of the tongue weight of the trailer. The guy that mounted their hitch sold it to them as per the movie.

[Sango]

Thanks for reminding me of that movie, it is hilarious. Have seen the movie and read the book by Clinton Twiss. Will have to check them out again from the library. Which I just did and placed a hold on both the movie and book.

[WoodGlue]

Clicky

It's just a TV show. Close enough for gubbmint work!

[NMace]

~DJ~ wrote:

NMace wrote:
I think it cute coming from a 7 yo, but he did not learn it from the tv show or their movies, it was never said. I suspect he has been listening to grandpa.

Great movie.

Yeah, Ricky said it OFTEN.

Lucy you have some splainin to do

Nope

http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/05/lucy-you-got-some-splainin-to-do.html

[rickeoni]

raymondmom wrote:
In order to pull that trailer, all the car needed was Timbrens, SuperSprings, an anti-sway bar and air-bags.

And really big cojones!

[raymondmom]

In order to pull that trailer, all the car needed was Timbrens, SuperSprings, an anti-sway bar and air-bags.

[thetroutman4]

Great movie. Now I want to dig the DVD out and watch it again!

[rickeoni]

It's just a movie, for entertainment and I was entertained no matter how unfathomable some of the scenes are. I watch movies for fun and to forget about reality for a while.

[btggraphix]

camperpaul wrote:

Imagine:

Pulling the plug and draining Lake Michigan …

…

The truth is stranger than fiction......that's about what happened when Glacial Lake Missoula drained......something like 40 times. The plug was an ice dam that would catastrophically fail near Sand Point ID and wash across all of eastern Washington. It's a really cool story

Glacial Lake Missoula

[camperpaul]

~DJ~ wrote:

805gregg wrote:
There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

It had a special dolly to carry the tongue weight so all it had to do was pull it. Remove the tongue weight from the shuttle and a Toyota can pull it!!!

Remember:

The Hollywood Special Effects people can do almost anything.

Imagine:

Pulling the plug and draining Lake Michigan …

100,000 bulldozers filling the lake with vanilla ice cream …

Every fire department around the lake spraying it with hot fudge …

and the Blue Angels towing a 5,000 pound maraschino cherry and dropping it on top …

I think you get the picture …

[_DJ_1]

805gregg wrote:
There is no way that Merc hauled that trailer unless it was gutted

It had a special dolly to carry the tongue weight so all it had to do was pull it. Remove the tongue weight from the shuttle and a Toyota can pull it!!!

[JimBollman]

Been years since I saw the movie, but as I remember the inside camper shots made it in to a double wide for space.

Also love the Robin Williams movie.