What's your tow vehicle?

 

Cosmo, PM sent

 

+1. I would love to see some pictures also!

 

TOW VEHICLE CURRENTLY IS A TOYOTA LANDCRUISER

 

I believe that you actually meant "TPIWWP". I will attempt to shoot some pix tonight or tomorrow (those cars are buried in barn #2, which is currently snow-bound, so I'll have to find my fur-lined mukluks) and post them.

 

So enclosed 20ft trailers are about 3500 pounds (if the weights from Pace are any indicator) once you start getting bigger than that you'll probably start really bogging the Landcruiser down. 24 foot seem to be about 500-1000 pounds more in weight. With car and extra stuff you'll be pushing 7-7500 pounds so I wouldn't look at much larger than a 20 foot unless you went with one of the lightweight enclosed trailers like the ones trailex makes (I'm sure someone makes a lightweight enclosed).

The 20 foot will make you pay more attention to how you load the trailer to get the weight balanced.

As for options you don't have much choice on them since they start to add weight and take away room. Cabinets are always nice but a bench that folds down will give you a work space that gets out of the way when you need to load the car.

 

OK, inquiring minds - here are pix of my cheezy but effective "transport windows", described in a post above.

Pix below is installed window, in the Spec Miata. Note one of my many "Nom de Guerre" on the roof (sometimes it's "A. Beauzeux", sometimes "Don Keefhardt").



Next pix is an image of the window itself, sitting on the box of one of my old pickup trucks - those handles are cheap drawer-pulls ($1.99 at the village hardware store), and are the bottom "stops" to keep the window at the right height, so it's snugged against the weatherstripping above. Cutting the plexi to the exacty shape of the window glass allows it to slide into the front track guide rubber/weatherstrip, too.



Last pix is the highly developed top-fastening attachment - a piece of rope, looped over the roll-bar, that routes thru two holes in the plexi. You can also do something similar with bungee-***** or whatever other fascinating attachment method you can dream up.



Brilliant, no ? You can tell I was a Boy Scout...that's a square-knot, kiddies.

Towed cars this way thousands of miles, and the inside stays bone-dry thru wildest summer frog-strangler.

Sure is a whole lot cheaper than an enclosed trailer, and a diesel dually, etc. etc. etc.

 

My similarly cheap do-it-yourself transport window contraption utilizing 3 well placed wedge shaped chunks of rubber and velcro: (of course, I'd rather have an enclosed trailer.)

 

See ? A lot of ways to skin this cat.

I do have an enclosed 28' trailer, but sometimes it's just easier to load crap on the open trailer and GTFOO-Dodge. Have even done the last couple of 12-13 hour races in "minimalist" mode...trying to see how little we can get away with. Overhead fuel rig and empty fuel drums in the dually; tires, parts, gas grill etc. in the cargo van "chase vehicle". I'm a believer that "less is more".

 

here's what I did on my BMW with the factory glass:


^oops, that's the driver side glass.

 

Wow, thanks