The trailer project.

Over the last year I have needed a truck or trailer at least 10 times, and have had to barrow a truck/trailer from a family member or pay to have something hauled off. I would spend an hour getting and returning the truck to use it for 15 min. So I decided it was time to get a trailer, only problem is I don't own a truck. Now many people will make fun of me for this but I decided to put a hitch on my wife's car. Before you laugh let me explain. First I would have put it on my car but it has 162,000 miles on it and I expect it to die in the next 18 months, my wife's car has 50,000 on it and we are planning on having it for at least a few more years. second, IT"S FUNCTIONAL!! I understand that towing a trailer with a car is out side the normal, but the fact is that it works and I'm not towing a 21 foot trailer, I'm hauling light loads like bikes or camping gear on a small 4x8 trailer.
So my brother and I (mostly my brother) hooked the hitch mount to my wife's car in a couple hours, and the wiring should be fairly simple. The only problem now is I didn't have a trailer, so I went on the hunt. I looked a new trailers, used trailers and plans to build a trailer. but then I remembered the boat/boat trailer I gave my cousin last year.
A couple years ago my grandpa gave me an old boat and trailer that I was excited to fix, but I ran out of time and money to do it, so it sat in my dads back yard for a year. I offered it to my cousin and he was happy to have it. He had it for a few weeks and found that it wasn't water tight and that fixing it would cost more than the boat was worth, so he took the boat to the dump and kept the trailer for a future project.
After I talked my cousin out of the trailer I cut everything off that wasn't needed for a flat bed trailer, and designed how to make it something great. on Wednesday my brother Brian and I got out the welder and started modifying the trailer to work for my wife's car. I haven't welded in 6 years, but my welds didn't look half bad, even though I only welded about 1/4 of the trailer. The design of the trailer is the cool part, the front is tapered so it's harder to jack knife, and if you manage to jack knife it you hit a side of the trailer not a corner. we also made it a tilt deck so I could pull a 4 wheeler on it with out the use of ramps, or to make unloading other things a little simpler.
We are painting it tonight and hopefully testing it out tomorrow morning. I'll post pictures up after it is finished.