I can barely fit my ass in an HHR.
But it might work?

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We have one but have never tried this. I measured once before a similar road trip (I think) and decided it could haul cabinet with no backbox.

I'd just take the pickup and a few good tarps. Slide a few boards under it and mummy wrap the game with multiple tarps if the weather gets bad.

I've heard that you have to disconnect the back box and you have to slide it down so it lays on the cabinet above the lock down bar. If you do this, I heard it will barely fit in an HHR. Obviously you'd have to secure the head by wrapping the heck out of it with cling wrap or something similar, so the head doesn't get damaged along with the side rails and who knows what else.

This might sound stupid, but can you gat a tape measure and measure one of your machines and the inside dimensions of your vehicle?

This is mentioned in several old threads, but no, the HHR does not really work for pin hauling. As was mentioned above, you can do the trick of taking the backbox hinges off and sliding the backbox down towards the front of the game to gain just enough clearance. Different brands of games fit differently, of course, but with a 90's B/W game you have just about 1/4" of clearance when you go this route.

I've hauled about 8 pins in mine, and most times I just behead the game completely, as it's necessary later on to get them up my nasty staircase. You may just want to go that route. It's really not *that* bad once you do a few....

I love my HHR, and they are awesome on fuel. I've never even thought they were too small in any regard other than the back hatch height, but I do wish the dang windshield was taller! If you're 6' or taller, you kind of have to lean down to see. hopefully they'll correct these two things on future models....

Ditto on backbox removal. I moved a TAF in an HHR and had to do it. The interior is large enough, problem is the rear cargo door opening is just a couple inches too small.

Congrats on the TAF. Oddly enough, that's the latest one I brought home in the HHR.

I was not trying to be a wise ass when I mentioned the tape measure. I had to get a machine through a door once and I was just about going to make it based on measurements. I did however overlook the carriage bolts on the backbox hinge. That was just enough to make the pin not fit. Sometimes things are so close that it is hard to tell.

"I'd just take the pickup and a few good tarps. Slide a few boards under it and mummy wrap the game with multiple tarps if the weather gets bad."

Anyone tried this mummy wrap technique? I have a 5x8 trailer but not enclosed, and would love to not shell out $100+ to uhaul. Would be driving 5 hours on Wednesday evening St. Louis to lafayette Indiana...30% chance of storms, mummy wrap in tarps plus cling wrap = safe?

I moved BK with the head off / to the side of the cab no trouble in my hhr, as BK is meant to be moved like that

but Time Machine was nowhere close to fitting with the head folded down, even though measurement seemed close..it was too tall by about 3 or 4 inches, so I had to remove the head which was a pita, and put the head to the side of the cab

best to make other arrangements, but if you use your hhr bring plenty of blankets and pillows to prevent things from bumping/sliding

Bob C

well, it does work...

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PT Cruiser for the win!

head must come off, took me 5 minutes to detach the stern head. l also did the same with a strange science. I've wondered if going in coin door first, and rear panel floor removed if it would just dip down enough to fit as one piece...

I have a Chevy Tahoe, which moves a pin fine, but i'd rather get twice the gas mileage in the hhr if it only means taking 5 minutes to remove the head box,

Word. The PT is surprisingly great for pin hauling.

I miss my HHR, RIP That being said I fit TWO pins in that car twice! The first time, I took a wide body Gottlieb Spiderman & a Cosmic Gunfight to the Allentown Pinfest. I put the front passenger seat down flat & slid the CG cabinet all the way up to the dash (cushioned of course) then I put the Spiderman head behind that, next I turned the Spiderman cabinet on it's side & slid that behind the driver's seat. (I had to move the seat almost all the way forward which made it a little bit cramped to drive) I then put the CG head behind everything & the hatch barely closed but it fit!!

Second time was a little bit tougher. I came home from Allentown Pinfest with a Williams Solar Fire & a Premier Alien Star. I did NOT take the head off Alien Star as it just folded down on the cabinet but it was a bitch to get them both in there!! I wish I'd taken a few photos now but I did have helpers & eye witnesses!! I also have fit a Junkyard in there by doing the hinge trick & sliding the head down as previously mentioned. I loved that car for hauling pins!! I now use a Mazda CX-5

is it the plastic in the way, or the entire opening like with the rubber gasket of the door?

I used to put a piece of carpet down underneath the game so it wouldn't slide all over on that plastic!

yeah, mine has the factory rug thing, but l like how it slides on the plastic when you're putting it in lol