Sounds like someone is dealing with an HOA...no thanks!

Ditto on 24' minimum for an enclosed. Few more years for me then think I'll make the switch. Bonus points as I'll be able to keep the racecar in it and free up garage space.

 

...I'll stick with my ol Econo-Trailer.. ' lol

 

Long day of immense labor and satisfaction so excuse the short-ness. If money was the issue we'd all drive Miata's. As always, it depends on your level of complexity. If you have a HIGHLY modified car, competing at an event against other HIGHLY modified cars, you're going to have tons of spares and tons of work involved so you're going to have Tons of gear. This isn't feasible in an open trailer setup unless you live a few miles away, have no additional "baggage", or have a full support team you pit with. The rest gradually grow with that all knowing graphic of daily -> tow wheels -> open trailer -> enclosed trailer -> camper/trailer -> full team/hotels. Or we give up and buy a turn key 1LE etc and stick with DE until we're dead. At the end of the day boys DE doesn't teach you anything else or drive you any further. You've become the thing you despise. Idle.

 

We travel up to 6 hours away with everything we need fitted into a ute tray and the tray deck on the open trailer. thats including 800L of fuel etc. We used to do it with a sedan car lol.

I think its more about being efficient in what you take and not taking anything you dont need. and how you store your stuff to take up the least amount of space. We also load alot of stuff into the car itself which helps free up space.

An enclosed trailer would be great. but i dont think its the end all.

 

6hrs... Yeah, thats like down the road for us

Crows is 650mi, so about 14 hours with stops and dealing with californias 55mph speed limit while towing. Solo Nats is 1800mi away so its a 2.5 day drive each way.

 

yea you guys have got some miles to cover haha. Must make it hard for those with monday to friday day jobs as youd almost need to leave on like the wednesday and not get back till the wednesday after. not sure how long your events last i assume the big ones have ur typical friday saturday sunday sorta format like us?

Interestingly the porsches i engineer on just had a race meeting this weekend past and they did a 2 day format. practice on friday and quali and 3 races on the saturday and it was quite neat. we were super busy as it was only little over an hour turn around between races but in saying that the overall format was great. Beats the usual format of only 2 races in a day with like 5 hours between races

 

Yep typical as was this weekend. Friday practice all day but didn't do the last session to save tires. Saturday you had a mandatory 7am meeting, then qualifying at 11am, then 1 race at 4:30pm. Following Sunday we qualified at 8am but didn't race until 1pm. The saving grace was I live 20 minutes from said track Otherwise it would have dragged on us more then it already had. I wouldn't mind 10am qualifying and 1pm race. Did the whole 2-3 races a day, was a lot of wear and tear with only the last race "counting." But I did win 2 hoosiers on Saturday so I can't complain lol. Only managed 2nd on Sunday.

 

shifting priorities... looking at a 1st gen sequoia to use as a tow rig.. especially given that i'm not driving to work these days, i think mpg is much, much less of a concern for me now

 

Ah is Mr. Street coming to the dark side lol.

She's big, but you'll really want a 4 door pickup at the end of the day for sway control. Esp with hills, long distance, etc. Although plenty of people use large SUV's with open alum trailers, they tend to only need a couple hours of travel so it's still comfortable. Those first few code brown moments though will make you think twice and get the pickup.

 

considering it. i take it the anti-sway trailer hitch modifications don't work well/at all?

 

Those are meant to controller a longer trailer. They don't really do anything for a short wheelbase vehicle.

 

The anti-sway PLUS load balancing ones like the Husky one do help esp on a large SUV, buuuut it depends on what you're doing with it the other 99% of the time. Then there's the whole pickup bed for "all the things" for close to the same money as a toyboata.

 

A weight-distributing hitch makes a big difference on a short wheelbase SUV. I had one for my 97 Yukon 2-door. If you prefer an SUV to a pick-up, a Suburban is not bad at all for towing an open trailer. I went from a 2500HD to a Suburban and both were stable. The Yukon, not so much.

 

so until i make this a reality, what's the best way to tow a car from place to place? hire car transport? rent uhaul?

 

I would say commercial truck rental and find a place that rents good quality trailers. You can do better than Uhaul. Or find a friend with a truck and trade them one of your other cars for the weekend.