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| The ramps slide right out and hook up on top. Anyone who has a trailer that stows the ramps on the side knows what a pain it is to take them out and carry them around to the back of the trailer. Long ramps can be heavy and it gets old. Plus you pull up to a curb and you can't get them out! |
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| The beaver tail and long ramps mean a super shallow approach angle. This is great for low cars with splitters and low hanging rear diffusers. |
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| After all of the frame fabrication was done, our trailer was sandblasted to clean the rust off the tubes and to prep it for powdercoating. The entire trailer was powdercoated black. This is way superior to the cheapo paint that your typical trailer is painted with and will ensure corrosion resistance for years to come. Regular trailers are rusted by the time you get them! As mentioned previously Shadow trailers can also do optional zinc plating under the powdercoat which is great if you have a boat or jetski trailer which goes in water all the time. Check out the fabrication of our completed folding fenders. This will give us plenty of door clearance, a huge difference when it comes to loading a car! Since our last pictures we also decided not to use hydraulic over electric disc brakes and are instead running 4 wheel electric brakes. This was so we could use the sealed wet lube hubs and to simplify things for robustness. Most open trailers only run single axle brakes but we want good stopping power. The electric brakes can still generate enough power to easily lock the wheels. |
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| The fenders are retained with these big wing nuts. There is a handy tray to hold the wingnut while you load so you won't misplace it. |
