How to winch a non-starter Cord up on a truck ?

Hi cbs III, thanks for your advise, which my well help to get my car save to my home. CORDially, Oldbanger71

Had the same question Friday night before Auburn at 11 PM in the barn yard outside Grass Lake, Michigan, while en route to stay at the Auburn Hotel (European Plan). Lucky the Farmer/Diesel Mechanic property owner offered lots of advice. Also lucky for us the tow truck driver was exceptional.

We used a flat bed International with a moving deck from Smith's Towing in Chelsea, Michigan, with a pair of very large J-Hooks, I'd estimate they were 18" long, and 8" deep. We had the Cord (810/812) sitting in fairly tall grass, and placed the J-Hooks hook-end-up behind the sub frame outrigger, inboard of the sway bar, just behind the sway bar bushing. No damage, and it helped that the driver used to work for a noted Manchester restoration facility and was familiar with the idea of using his head before winching the old bird up. The front of the J-Hooks came within 1/2" of the sheet metal when the tires started up, and we had a rubber sheet in there just in case. Smith's has this rig equipped with a 4' wide spreader about 6' upstream of the hooks.

Get some J-hooks.

Hi Cordmarc, thanks for your proposal. Sure this would be a good solution for recovery a car stranded on roads.(Cord's never do ; they just take a brake for the nice scenery!
My Cord is a long terme non-starter in need of restauration to be shipped to Switzerland, so many different people will handle the car loading and unloading it from and on trucks.
Stan has given me a good description on how Cords should be loaded and fixed without damaging anything but still have it secured.
CORDially, Oldbanger71:D

How would it be like this ? I hope you know someone who owns such a truck like this !

Hi out there,
can somebody tell me where to attache a hoist-rope on a non-starter Cord,
without damaging lower frontpanels while loading up on a truck ?

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