Trailer options. Options

[Charles Freeborn]

Curious what others are using for their race car trailer.
My tracks are all within one days drive so an open trailer is fine - and preferred. It looks to me like a 6 x 12 is plenty. I need it to be able to go through a standard 9' wide garage door and weigh less than 1800ish pounds. My car is capable of pulling 5k #'s.
Aluminum, steel tandem, single axle? Those sorts of questions.
For this season I can use a tow dolly for our local track (8 miles away) and a U-haul for out of town, but eventually that'll get tiresome.
Thx.

[Charles Freeborn]

Excellent points all 'round. In a perfect world I'd have a 6 bay shop, with lift, a couple of acres with covered pad parking for an HD RV, 20something foot enclosed and a full second set of tools to live in the trailer.... a fella can dream...
In my less than perfect world I'll be towing with my Acura MDX (capacity 5k #) and if I'm staying overnight I'll be sleeping in a nearby budget motel or in a tent at the track. Them's the realities of my budget. This season I'm hoping to make it to 2 races at my local track (8.6 miles from my house) using a UHaul - maybe even a Uhaul Tow Dolly, which I've used before with a 914 and worked well. My previous 914 I could flat-tow but this one is too low in the front so that's not really an option. There are 2 other tracks that I frequent, both 2 ½ hours drive from my house. Pulling a trailer closer to 3. When I go to those, generally I'm part of a group of friends. We all look out for each other and a few have spare trailers, trucks, etc so I very well may be able to bum a ride or rig. The operative there will be to have a very organized system of tubs or bins to keep bits and pieces and tools for easy "chuck it in the truck" transport.
In the next 3ish years, and only if my wife is on board, I'll swap out the Acura for a van of some sort (E250, Transit, etc) that will double as my track truck but that I can also trick out as a camper that we can go adventuring in. It'll have to be dual duty in order for me to maintain my peaceful domestic bliss.
Over the winter I'll put on a hard search for an aluminum trailer - it's going to be used, and possibly one that I modify to fit the car, convert to tandem etc. By my measure a 6 x 12 will hold the car. I'll build a lightweight Tire rack over the front and call it all done. Budget is $3k max so I predict some sweat equity will be involved. It must fit through a standard 9'wide garage door for storage purposes.
Again, many thanks for the input. It's helped me narrow my search to a tandem aluminum framed model. Now I just have to find one in my budget.