New tow vehicle (hopefully) Options

[campbellcj]

I guess we'd better get on with this war...I'll need the gas (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fighting19.gif)

Going to go check-out and hopefully buy a Land Cruiser (2001) Friday. V-day gift for the wife (her daily driver / mommy wagon) and ocassional tow vehicle for me. Supposedly they are pretty decent for light/medium duty towing; rated 6500lbs and fairly long wheelbase and very strong chassis; 4.7L DOHC V8 with ~320lb-ft of torque.

If things ever got REALLY ugly here in LA (war, huge quake etc)...a Hummer is about the only vehicle I'd rather have on hand than a Land Crusher.

Hopefully it will work out. The wife has been driving various real POS cars for 6 months so she will really appreciate it.

I also have a lead on a nice single axle trailer nearby, from an old friend whose dad just passed away. He used it to haul his concours early American cars and custom hotrods to shows.

So I'm doing my part to help the economy...I just hired 2 people at work and am buying $20K in new equipment too. I have looked at over 500 resumes since December. It's still pretty ugly out there I guess.

[jdogg]

Make sure no matter what trailer you get, you properly load the tongue. Years ago, my father and I loaded up my ministock on a trailer we had not used before. It was a twin axle, but the axles were welded to the frame (no suspension). We thought we would be smart, since the trailer was so heavy and back the car on the trailer to lighten the tongue load on the truck. Well, due to there being no suspension, the axles acted like a fulcrum and took a lot of weight off the tongue. Stupidly, we took off. Got a couple miles down the road, on an entrance ramp to I-84, and a gust of wind picked up and blew us right around in the middle of the interstate!!!!!Blew out both right side tires, but since it was a twin axle, we took one good tire off the other side and limped it home.
Never again will I haul a car on anything less than a twin axle, suspended trailer properly loaded.