914 Trailering Tie Down Question, Where to tie it down? Options

[flat4tom]

Hello all,

I'll be bringing home my 914 tomorrow. I have a trailer but have not loaded or tied down a 914 onto it before...only VW's and my Model A Ford.

This is a stock suspension car, i.e. no tiedown loops on the chassis. I will be using nylon tie down ratchet straps - I have 4 of them and use them on my other cars - the BIG ones.

Question: what points on the car should I use to tie the car down to the trailer? Suspension points, shock mounts, what....?

Any advice?

Thanks
Tom

[jt914-6]

I have the BIG car tie down ratchet straps too. I bought the "axle" straps and run the strap throught the front suspension lower arm and loop it back to the "D" ring on the strap. Depending on how much strap you have maybe you can do the same and attach both ends at the tie down ring. On the rear I bought two big eyebolts and cut off the threaded part and welded the ring on the shock bolt. I clip one end of the strap to that and the other to the tie down ring...