With the battery being so accessible in our cars, it would be really easy to wire a power port just about anywhere.  It would be hot all the time, but then again so is the stock cigarette lighter.  Just be sure you put a fuse in line with it.

Did you mention that your car had a USB port on the radio?  That should charge it...  The one in my truck keeps my iPod charged.


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The fuse is a great idea but I would put in an auto reset circuit breaker instead.  They are available at any trailer or RV supply even over the net.  I plan on putting one on the circuit that comes from my RV to my Tow car battery (keeps the tow car battery topped off when).  It will auto-reset when the short or excessive load is taken off.  They run about $5 so it is not a lot more than a fuse holder and fuse.

All great ideas.  I really like throwing the power port in back with the reset button.  I could plug in an electric smoker for ribs or grill for a couple of Italian sausages on the drive.  Think how much I'd save on food!

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Hey Dave - you might want to find one of these: http://www.mini-caravans.com/en/

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Someone help me out here as I don't recall where I saw it but I remember seeing a story a few years ago about a retired couple trekking around the US in a blue C2 convertible pulling one of those little teardrop trailers.  They were going coast to coast stopping at all the major Corvette gatherings they could find.  The thing that impressed the heck out of me the most was that they stopped at the Salt Flats in Utah and just for fun ran the rig, car and trailer, up into the triple digits. 

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Where I've been in a Corvette...!!!

Dennis, That would do the trick!  Looks like I could use a little imagination and make one out of a snowmobile trailer.

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If nothing else Harbor Freight has a small light weight trailer frame that would do as a start.  The advantage would be it would be lighter duty than a snow mobile.  Google "Harbor Freight trailer".  I did and saw lots of pictures of what people have done with the trailer.  You could even make a little sleeping trailer out of it.   I talked with a couple (not using a corvette) with a small sleeping trailer (he built) traveling around the US last Summer.

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Well now....ifin yer gunna go a-trailerin.....gotta go this route.....


You'll always be wonderin who the heck it is ridin yer tail all day! You speed up, they speed up..you slow down, they slow down.....


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"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"

If you are gonna do a trailer, why not just get one of those platforms that slides into the hitch receiver.  ten you don't have to fool with a trailer.




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Joel, you know darn well that if I had a roached vette to make a trailer out of I would end up trying to restore it!

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Dave C..........My mantra: I can not be bought!!      Long and short term leases available.

Wow, Dave!

This discussion evolved from adding a power port to building a trailer with a swing-out grill!  The next thing you know you'll be rebuilding a 427 to power that new cigarette lighter...




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