I did it once with a donor I bought a few hours north of my home. The guy had towed it 120mi from his place, met me on the hwy, and I was set to drive ~120mi to get it to it's finaly resting place (a friends house where we were going to pull parts and cut up the chassis).
TIP - if you have a long distance to flat tow the car, check lugnuts on the car being towed BEFORE you start your journey and at a safe point halfway through.
After the first 120mi of it's final journey, the tbirds lugnuts has worked themselves off their wheels. 5 miles after I was handed the car, I felt some increased drag from behind my borrowed tow vehicle and when I looked at the rearview mirror, I saw a wheel bouncing down the highway and across the median. That wheel came from the front right side of my donor car and sheared off 3 out of 5 lugs with it.
- Luckily for me, noone was hit by that wheel and I had the presence of mind to pack a spare tire.
- Unluckily for me though, this incident added ~6 more hours to what was supposed to be a 2-3 hour tow as the incident had sheared 3 of the lug bolts off the hub that lost a wheel. I had to steal some lugnuts from the other wheels, replace a second lug that had sheared off on the drive to Uhaul by borrowing tools from NAPA, limp to a Uhaul shop, rent a flatbed, and finally figure out how to back the car ONTO the flatbed when the front wheels kept turning (no steering wheel -- just a bolt).
It was a total PITA and honestly, probably wasn't legal in CA. Even with magnetic lights, I'm pretty sure that anything towed in CA that touches the road needs to be registered and that car most certainly wasn't. If I had to do it again, I'd probably have rented the UHAUL trailer from the outset. For that reason alone, you might want to check your local state's flat towing laws.
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