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A competent shop can do a custom hitch on virtually anything. A thousand or two pounds should be well within reason for a C7. Any more and it may be time to consider a different tow vehicle!
I believe to OP was asking in regards to using the hitch to mount a bike rack. In that case, the hitch, bike rack and bike combined weight would only be in the 50-100# range.
You did not post a link to a site that has no product for either the C7 or the C7 Z51, did you? Tell me that you did not waste my time and the time of everyone who clicked your link.
Congratulations. You have earned a spot on my list.
Also, if he catches any of you guys in his stuff, he'll kill you. So just keep your meathooks off.
No wonder Corvette people get a bad rap. To pull a set of tires to the track is doing what the car was intended to do. Not sit in a garage covered with 20 coats of Zanio.
OP,I hope you find your hitch. Don't let a bunch of old man waxers scare you off.
This is a great post!
I love to race and often times my events are 2 - 3 hrs. away. It would be way cool to be able to make a choice to drive my SUV or my vette to the venue but I don't have a hitch on my vette. As an avid triathlete and bicyclist I hope the OP finds what he is looking for. More power to him.
Guys get over it.... it's a car... Cars were made to transport people and things. If the OP can't take pride in transporting his bike such that he can do the things he wants to do, he's missing out on fulfilling half the reason one would own a vette.
Sure it is fun to wash, wax and detail em but driving them places for a purpose is also fun.
To the OP:
Bike safe and may there always be a tail wind pushing you.
Ely
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There is always a way of doing almost anything. There is a huge hollow bumper at the rear. If you don't want to drill holes, you can always add some sort of big clamps around this bumper with extensions downwards.
You won't be towing anything big. But a small trailer for extra luggage ( like a C7 rear clip would be cool, color matched of course), tire dolly, or a bike rack etc.
Guys,
I had owned a C5 and installed a trailer(receiver)hitch to transport my bike.Does anyone know of a manufacturer that makes a hitch for a C7?This can be a deal breaker.What do you guys do that take tires to the track?
Vince
I had my Vette up on my lift and I was specifically looking at it from your perspective of waning to install a tow hitch, and honestly it looks as if engineers went out of there way to make that impossible...or at least not go out of their way to make it easy. Here are a few pictures from the underside. The problem is (without cutting into that black lower rear fascia) I don't see how you easily attach a hitch to the frame.
From the back looking up:
Looking up at the mufflers and rear fascia:
Looking up at the back of the mufflers and beginning of the rear suspension:
Sorry for digging up this old thread, but I was watching some old episodes of Route 66 on TV, and the opening scene showed Buzz & Todd towing a horse trailer with Todd's 61 Vette. This thread came to mind immediately, and I knew I had to post some screen shots.
The poor quality isn't from my camera, but rather the 480i format on a big flat screen.
I put a DrawTite hitch on my C5. Then had a custom enclosed trailer built that was is 4'-0" W x 6'-0" L and 4'-0" H with a 3,500 pound trailer axle and 14" wheels.
Carried my race tires tools, EZ UP, floor jack, etc. The car a 2002 Z06 got 27 MPG without the Trailer and 22 MPG with the trailer. Towed straight as an arrow at 100 MPH too.
03-08-2014, 12:10 PM
