When towing a car goes WRONG!
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Glad to have Randy back in the interview chair. Many more great stories to come from him in the coming weeks!
He’s always such a fun guest to have on the channel.
When are we getting to hear from John again? Love Randy!
Got you some good tow stories if you ever want to hear
wonderful to have someone who loves talking cars more than money or themselves on the channel. Randy is the real deal, and his passion is infectious.
Randy is one of the best ambassadors motor sports has. We are lucky to have his enthusiasm and experience to promote all types of racing.
I see Randy Pobst mentioned and I automatically watch the video. This guy is such a fun story teller.
He's right, everyone who's ever done a lot of towing has at least one crazy towing story!
I've been towing for 2 years and I could probably talk about crazy ones for about an hour. I've seen people flip and walk away, people that break rear ends and hurt themselves. I've worked about a half dozen fatalities those are the worst.
My dad has had some come on an on ramp, cross 5 lanes of freeway nail the rear corner of the open car hauler wreck the front of their car, careen back across the highway and slide to a stop. The trailer hardly even noticed it,
Truth, Jared.
Randy needs his own podcast and/orshow , can listen to this legend talk all day!
Thx Jay!
randy is the car dad we never had
So prouda you, Son
"I heard a wheel bearing going bad. Then let my friend borrow it to tow across 4 states." With friends like that ...
True. Aint it?
Amen Brother! We've all been there in one way, shape or another😇
"Hugo got it" Practically the equivalent of "The dingo's ate your baby."
Good one, Randy!
Yes, so true
There's snow falling out of the fog here in Zurich. Temps are falling, and the roads are gonna be slick as glass by afternoon. Randy, thank you for filling my day with sunshine!!!
Kind of you, and my pleasure
Love Randy's stories, he is always soo enthusiastic...
Randy cracks himself up and I'm here for it! 😂
Does a missing wheel count for the van being handicapped? Randy's stories are always great.
Towing stories! I definitely have a towing story, involves dip in the road, trailer coming unattached, demo derby car slamming into my tail gate, trailer going under truck... In an intersecting. It was one of those stupid tongue designs that you have to squeeze together and pull down. Someone didn't put in the safety pin, that's when I learned to check after everyone's work
I had something slightly similar happen to me; towing a caravan(with a 6 door volvo limo no less :D ) and the magnificent sight it is to see a caravan with the front pointing into the air(when it let go), only to one second later slam into the asphalt(the emergency brakewire engaged) and veer into a ditch on its own is both scary and hilarious at the same time
I wanna see the vid!
@@googzmo that’s what I’m talkin bout !
Always love Randy's stories. Need more!
love RP’s stories. Edge of the seat story teller around a campfire! love it!
It’s amazing how well he told the towing story for someone who wasn’t present.
This guy absolutely needs his own podcast or show or channel. He tells such a compelling story.
Rode in the back of a Caged Ferrari Mondial one time as a kid. The tiny ‘back seats’ were still fitted, but it was still very awkward fitting in between the bars and harnesses.
RAANDY IS BAACK!! YEES!!!! A REAL DRIVER WITH REAL STORIESS!!! 😁😁🙌🙌
I've seen never someone so excited to talk about the wreck of of his vehicles lmao, great story
Excited no one got hurt. They easily coulda died. Scary though, but got lucky this time.
@@randypobstofficial Absolutely
That call to the yard was a plot twist!
"Oh no!" And I laughed so hard when I got the Hugo story.
I always say Randy tells the best stories, and this one didn't disappoint.
No joke towing stories are always a near death experience.
Randy is an awesome story teller! Love his live YT videos too! Thank for bringing him back Ed!
I could listen to his story’s all day !
Randy Pobst never disappoints! The man is a legend
I don't have anything this crazy, but I have a home-built teardrop trailer I tow behind my NA Miata. I have only ever blown two tires on the trailer, and both times it was the spare - which is mounted on the tongue. The first time was because I somehow inserted the drawbar pin in front of the drawbar, and the second was because the trailer actually popped off the ball. When the trailer is suddenly being pulled only by the chains, the lowest point on the tongue is the spare tire. It only took a few feet until it wore right through the carcass and caused a catastrophic decompression. :)
Glad to see you back Randy. Again, congratulations on your 2021 Pikes Peak run. 😎 👍
Thx so much, Aaron. We’ll be back w Unplugged Tesla Plaid 👍
I don’t know how I haven’t seen anyone else comment about him . But vinwiki needs to have Matt’s off road recovery on ! I love watching his channel and feel like he will definitely have some cool stories . Pls like if you wanna see Matt here too so ED sees !
Absolutely
I know, I love Matt’s off-road recovery, too. So many stick and crashed Jeeps and whatever’s.
I love Randy, so excited to see him back and telling stories!
Thx a million, Sushil 👍
that van nearly lived up to it's name- Found On Road Dead
Thank God for Randy Pobst!
I really enjoy this guy. Van stories can be quite interesting.
ive had some hilarious towing stories myself. You can't make the stuff up, nobody has that much imagination.
My buddy's dad had a 70's convertible firebird that had one entire front quarter made out of Bondo- total p.o.s. The one and only time I rode in it the entire wheel came off w/axle attached and went rolling into the front yard of the police station in St. Peters, Mo. My friend and I grabbed our skateboards and left his dad sitting there.
Randy has the BEST stories! This one even qualifies as a fable (besides it being non-fiction)! What’s the moral? If you have a vehicle that goes through heavy-duty use (towing, racing, track driving, rallying, offroading, hooning), do a careful vehicle check prior to any major drive/race/etc. Nothing spells out the word douchebag like a towing vehicle losing a wheel, a vehicle coming out of or off its trailer due to insufficient tie-down, or pieces of furniture busted up all over the highway (or a mattress/box spring). No hard feelings, Randy…I wasn’t talking about you or your friend. 😳😬😉🤣🤣 🖖😎👍
Guilty! I have a couple pics somewhere, can’t find em. Pre phone cameras.
I love Randy he does tell a good story👍👍👍
Love the way Randy tells a story. You feel like you're there!
Randy and Christopher are the best!
Absolutely love this chap and his stories, I thought the Tesla Plaid story was something. This is another level!
Randy has some of the best stories! Always finds a way to make it to the race and compete! 🤙
His stories are awesome!
Finally ...Randy the awesome man savage lmfao
Man I would PAY to see in real time what the van and trailer looked like careening into that rest stop!
Me too !!
Lehto has some good towing stories too
Had enough sidewall to flub it just right
Randy Pobst? Automatic thumbs up!!!!
Edit: wouldn't that be a helluva crossover if they dropped the truck and trailer at Rabbit's Diesel Shop?! I remember Hugo hit us with crazy flooding in Virginia, I that was '96...
allot of good lessons here. thanks randy
We love Randy!
Thx a mill, Kyle 😆
GUIDO?......OH, THAT'S PERFECT.
Had the tire rack on an open trailer I was hauling full off a few miles from VIR. Stacked the tires in the RV walked across the street to the nearest auto parts store got some ratchet straps and tied the rack back on. When the car owner got to the track a day latter he called his brother in law ti bring his welder as long as he was headed ti watch the race. Drive back to Florida was uneventful.
Well done Tom Yikes
Ah, love when Randy is on.
Love this guy!
True. I blow a tire at 65 mph and never felt it.
Randy Pobst what a guy.
Talk about getting lucky at a rest stop. That was close!
God damn I love randy!
Must have been great sleep while B52’s were blasting all the way and rear bearing was screaming for it’s life 😏
Randy- If you can find me a 24' enclosed trailer for $5k, I'd be amazed...and I'd take 3! All the best, your favorite AMC Hornet dealer, mike cook!
Hi, Mike! How’s the Hornet? Sooo original. Got a towing story w that, too. South Georgia, Mike. It’s true. Seem a bit cheap, but I think they work fine.
Great stories, and I realize this sounds critical, but it shouldn’t. It’s just food for thought for others.
You always slow by letting off the gas slowly, hoping for no pedal use.
Second, trailer brakes should drag the tow vehicle to a stop if you do use the brake. A proportional controller is a must. It’s worth the small investment if your truck isn’t already equipped.
I’m glad everything came out alright, it makes a great story because Lady Luck didn’t enforce penalties.
True true, but the element of surprise ….
Hi Ed! Have a good day.
Hey William!
Randy is a fricken Rock Star.
Towing is hazardous, so true.
Oh man, Randy is sooo right about towing stories lol
One of the most nervewracking drives I ever had was towing one pickup with another with a length of steel chain. It was only around a half a mile, maybe a little less. So only a few min to drive but it felt like an hour.
We ended up using the trailer hitch on one truck tied off to the plow frame (where a snow plow gets mounted) of the other. No bolts, no padlocks, no zipties, just a chain with hooks on either end, wrapped around a sturdy point and hooked back on itself.
With no stretch like one of those nylon (or whatever) tow straps (the nylon rope the US Navy uses can stretch up to 40% in length btw, just for some context) and the sound of the metal-on-metal connections to both vehicles reverberating through the frame, combined with doing my damnedest to compensate for the lack of stretching, it was one hell of a half mile.
And this is a story where everything that went bad, happened prior to the part with towing. Transmission on a F-150 (or maybe 250..... was a long time back now) died when on the way back to the yard. Other guy I was with walked to the yard while I stayed with the truck. Our boss came back so he could see what happened along another truck and 20-30 feet of chain. Then with me driving the towing vehicle and him steering/braking the other one, we went back to the yard.
addendum: this was circa 2005
That was God's way of saying don't listen to the b52s.
Randy was great in "My Blue Heaven".
Wow that must of been a hellish trip in that caged firebird for 4 people. My Dad had a 1992 firebird trans am. He hated my mom's oldsmobile cutlass. Took a trip to see family from PA to FL in the back of a firebird even as a 10 year old kid that was a terrible trip
In case it wasn’t clear, the van was sideways!
Cool story !
Im 42 years old and I still want to be Randy Pobst when I grow up
That’s too funny. I had the almost exact same thing happen around the exact same time. (Minus the hurricane) In ‘94 we were towing 20k worth of motorcycles from Atlanta to Myrtle Beach for bike week behind my 88 Bronco when the right rear bearing failed and broke the right rear axle. I was looking at the ground then the sky as the truck drug to a stop in a shower of sparks. The tire ripped the quarter panel loose then went between the motorcycles and eventually rolled past us on the right in the grass about a half a mile then fell over and started a huge grass fire. A few hours later we left the Bronco in no where South Carolina and the only thing we could find to rent with a trailer ball was a 70s 35’ uhaul. Couldn’t even see the trailer behind us. Finished the trip, spent the week in Myrtle Beach then came back. On the way home we put the motorcycles and the trailer in the back of the uhaul and got a car hauler to tow the Bronco back to Atlanta to get it fixed…
Very resourceful, the show must go on. You got lucky on that one, too 👍
@@randypobstofficial I sure did Randy, very cool of you to reply, I don’t know if you remember me but I worked at road Atlanta from 92-2000 the last few years as the track medical and safety director. We met a couple of times in those years… I’ve always been a fan even when I was responsible for the safety of 80,000 spectators, crews, drivers and the track…
Maintenance is key 👍🏻
I clicked because i missread the title and thought it was a rabbit story but i still i stayed … love vinwiki content 💯🔥❤️
and you got the real deal instead
What a dude!
I bet it’s a story with a wreck in it. Call me crazy. Still love Randy though.
In Europe, nothing towing is allowed to go over 80 kph/49 mph. It sucks but makes sense.
Damn here in USA , I drove from Denver to Los Angeles and the truckers easily maintain a 75mph constant sometimes faster 😅 going across the deserts
I brain read the title of the video as "When TWO WING goes wrong" And I'm sitting like..... whats 2 wing? Whats wrong with it?
For the record..i experience hurricane HUGO was sept. 17, 1989
6:11 Bob Denver? Take me home country roads?
That would be John Denver"Thank God I'm a Country Boy". Bob was the one stuck on an island with Ginger and Mary Ann.
@@theanomalous1401 Gregorious! Hey buddy! Good call on Gilligan vs the
Nice guy country pop singer John, whom people used to say I resembled.
Hey there@@randypobstofficial! When you think about it though, being stuck on a deserted island with Ginger and Mary Ann does have a tremendous upside!
Yeah, add about fifteen thousand to that for a good enclosed car trailer Randy.
Missed use of : "my wife at the time"
I thought a Ford 9" wouldn't have the axel shaft come out? Even if it's smoked at the bearing. I should know had a bearing fail on my 67 F100 Ranger.
Whenever, I see a vehicle w a trailer or something being towed, i move out of the way. It's just good policy.
I lost one of my friends cause she hit her head to the rollgage on a road car. Her father never got over that...
So sad to hear, Axel. Coulda been me, too, but been lucky.
Why does the moon reflect perfectly the earth? Always wondered this.
He involved himself in the story when he clearly wasn’t there.
Damn if i saw it was Randy i would have watched immediately
world's fastest clown car? kinda looks like that one.
Is daily driving a restomod a terrible idea or a wonderful idea?
Towing stories with faulty equipment. 😳
Smash that bell icon baby
Mid nineties, nope, not many cabovers i n there by then!
Can I get a dating service replay. Not surprised yt slows these everywhere even on my kids cartoons.
Was your insurance guy bronco Johnson?
3:21 why so many axles
Ikr! I'm sure they're not over weight though!
Pure Michigan requires it
I don’t wanna call Randy a liar but Hugo was in September 89 . Hit my family hard and I was a year old .
where can you find a 24 foot enclosed trailer for $5000 I'm packing a bag to go get it
Should have known better to TOW at 65 / 70 MPH.. That is unsafe ! Leave early !! Be Safe !!
Proper rig, 75-80 no prob
Was only a E-150 tho. But it had 200K miles, because RACING
So was he in the van or not in the van he keeps saying both?
I kind of crack up whenever I see a 1/2 ton truck rig hauling a huge toy hauler or enclosed trailer....KIDS there's a reason most 3/4 ton and larger trucks have floating axels on them.....Don't be "That Guy"! I know a guy who had a Nissan Titan towing an open trailer to a race and he SMOKED his brakes going down a grade and almost killed himself along with his wife and newborn child.....Don't be "That Guy"! Go BIG or stay home!
Mr. Pobst can you become friends with my dad? Lol