Taking It to the Lake

So this past weekend we decided it was time to take the car to the garage at the lake because thats where the swap will be done.  Since it's the middle of Canadian winter and there is a good 5ft of snow already fallen... driving is not an option. Good news though, my dads friend was nice enough to let us borrow his bobcat trailer.  Just a normal tip trailer but considering i have about an inch of clearance in the front and two in the back we had a sneaking suspicion that a ramp build was in our future. So we started up the car and decided that backing on was our best bet. Well the exhaust pipe was too low so I guess this ramp was getting built sooner or later! So after a quick try to Rona, 10 2x4's 2 8x4ft pieces of plywood and $60 later, we had some ramp materials. I'd like to add that is was -24 degrees Celsius which is about -11 fahrenheit!!! So spending three hours building a ramp isn't so fun.  So heres some ramp building picture:

Well looks like a gradual slope hey? well apparently the car still scraped a little as I was driving up! I guess the moral here is that low cars and trailers don't much like each other. 

Anyways once we got her up on the trailer, since we didn't have wheel straps we had to use chains which although sturdy also do not like low cars, after an hour of fiddling and two bent coat hangers we had the car all strapped, well chained down. So after warming up in the house we went on the quick drive out to the lake and got ready to unload. So as I drove the snowmobiles out of the garage and removed the chains my dad snowblew the snow out of the way.  About an hour later we started on the ramp. Since the e-brake needs to be adjusted we had to just pieces of firewood behind the wheels in order to keep the car from sliding off the trailer as we built the ramp, in hind sight we probably should have left the car chained down. Once the ramp was build we took the blocks out and drove her off the back and into the garage. after a couple revs in order to hear the BOV and exhaust it was time to say goodbye.