Trailer thrash

[greatbear]

This morning, Jeff and I brought home our new toy:




The ol' Dodge grunted the thing home with no drama. There is no doubt that there is some serious weight being bandied around behind the bed. This is the biggest 'toad' I have hauled with the truck to date. Prior to that the largest had been car trailers. 18 years ago I bought the truck knowing full well I would beat the hell out of it. To this day it's still doing it's thing, albeit quite a bit more bashed and crusty than the day I brought it home. We'll see how things go. Sadly, it would appear that if I plan on doing serious traveling with this trailer, a new truck is in order. In the nearly two decades since the '89 Dodge shattered the status quo on diesel pickup power, durability and efficiency with the Cummins engine, things have only gotten better on all the aforementioned counts. As well as more expensive. I might have to treat myself next year.

Comments

Re: You don't need a new truck...

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

The trailer is in this driveway teporarily as we load and 'personalize' it, check things out, etc. What you cant see is the second driveway and detached garage behind the house. The rest of the 'fleet' is parked there, and there is a nice spot alongside the garage where the trailer will take up residence when not being used. Nice thing about all of that is, everything is mostly hidden from view up front, making the place look less like an industrial lot.

As an aside, didja know that (before my tweaks and tunes on both of them) that the truck has less horsepower than the MINI? Torque is another matter though. From the factory, the Cummins came with 160hp and 400lb/ft of torque.

Re: You don't need a new truck...

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

Still, I have this image of hooking the trailer to the back of the MINI and having the front end lift off the ground. I know things are better balanced than that, but the image is fun nonetheless.

I love to toy with cars, especially old ones I'd find on eBay. I also loved to buy and sell them. I was always like a little kid, I'd get a new toy and after a short while I was off to the new toy. I did so much of that one year the state made me get a used car sales permit, which I found out subsequently was a great way to insure them, I insured my "inventory" for less than half of what I was insuring them individually. I wasn't so lucky to have an extra driveway and garage. I ended up once squeezing three cars into a two car garage and three cars out front in the driveway. The homeowner's prohibited parking cars on the street, so that kept my toy collection to a minimum.