Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: > > At 09:58 AM 8/10/99 -0500, you wrote: > > > >You need a 3/4 ton vehicle with at least 400 cid engine to pull these > >trailers (except for flat land situations). You also need a vehicle that > >will take 650 lb. hitch weights. > > > >Bud > > A few years ago, a BMW sponsored race team did a tow vehicle test. It was > published in Roundel (BMW CCA magazine) and the winner, hands down, was the > Suburban (3/4 ton or 1 ton, I don't remember). They were pulling two race > cars, spares, tools, everything in one of those big double decker trailers. > They said that whether they were going up hill, down hill, at sea level, at > altitude, there was never a lack of power. It just seemed to run the same > all of the time. > > Jim - ------------------ hands down, in the "Wally Bayam Caravan Club"-- international Airstream club, the suburban rules the road for towing the 'big rigs'... as a side, wally bayam orginally towed (50s) an AS through Africa with rovers as well, but it was the older 'series III' style that was mentioned earlier. Not sure what kind of camera he used, but we all know what it SHOULD have been-- a tropicalized Leica! Kpeters