Trailer vs. Drive

[JTurbo]

Quick question - who will be trailering vs. driving to the Reunion?

I'll be driving.

[Gator]

The tow pig will have the pig on the pig hauler....in other words, trailer for me.

[JTurbo]

Just to put this question into perspective, I'm trying to gauge my own insanity. I've only owned my 86 about a year, put maybe 1500 miles on it, a few trips between PA and MA (200mi each way), last week a trip to Parsippany (300 mi round trip) and local trips to work.

Car runs fine, but it's got almost 94k, and who knows what's been done to it over the last 20 years???

So this question really goes to anyone traveling >600 miles to get to the reunion.

My wife actually made asked, "why don't we just drive my car and take pictures of yours". While I'd never consider it, it just had me thinking........

Joe

[Mr. Pink]

JT - there are a few who will be towing, but I imagine that most people will be driving.

I've given this some thought myself, but since I don't own a truck (yet) I am forced to drive. Last year I drove to KY and this year I drove to Nashville for the 40th. Outside of a wheel bearing seizing-up, I've had no issues and my '84 has 130,XXX+ on it.

I can recommend this though, get AAA coverage with their towing package (gold package I think it is). One of the members here saved my probably $100+ in towing charges when my wheel bearing went out.

Plus, if your convoying down, I'm sure anyone you're running with will bend over backwards to help out in case something happens.

Yeah - COM'ON

[svobud]

To put things in perspective ... Garrett Polehonka from Washingston State drove his 1986 1E (with co-pilot and friend, Hugh) straight thru without stopping to the Nashville Reunion in 1999. A 38 hr trip. On the return - the starter or alternator went out - so they stopped and repaired it .. finding a parts store open was the hardest part and it slowed the overall return time to 42 hrs.

If you have the Tow Rig and Trailer - then it's something to consider. If you don't - DRIVE IT. There will be plenty of people coming from the NE - try and hook up with a convoy. Nothing cooler than a line of SVOs cooking down the Hwy. If anything goes wrong - there's safety in numbers.

[140cilx]

I just love driving mine. Then again, mines got 150k on it, at that point, who cares whether it's 150 or 300k, it's already a high mileage car.

[Gyrhead]

Trailering

I'll be trailering, but not because I don't love to drive mine. If i trusted it enough I'd drive it. I'm just afraid that my midnite oil efforts (right up to the wire) to get the car ready for the reunion won't find all the little bugs that a 1,700 mile trip might disclose in short order. Also my experience tell me I should trailer. I had to miss most of an Easter Jeep Safari in Moab Utah one year when my Jeep chose central Kansas as a good place to drop it's weak and worthless T4 tranny. Even trailering, there's no guarantee of freedom from mechanical snafus. I lost the wheel bearings on my old homemade double axle trailer on another Jeep trip while making a less then textbook "U" turn getting into a Mickey D's drive thru somewhere in Podunk Missouri (2 hours west of St. Louis). Damm Quarter Pounders with Cheese! Ended up having to replace the stub axles since the bearings and races were from some long obsoleted Chrysler product from the 50s and no junkyard in the St. Louis area had one. Cost me 3 days and I had to stay in this fleabag motel that had what looked like blood on the walls and pulsating fungus in the shower. Yikes! Can anyone say body condom? That trailer is an organ donor now, making Daihatsus in the far east.

[Ken Potter]

I'll be trailering the 1B if / when I go. I usually end up going it alone so it's good to have a back-up vehicle if the truck or trailer has a problem. I can leave it to get fixed and continue on with the SVO and pick it ( truck and trailer ) up on the way back home. I also usually have parts that I bring to sell so trailering is my only option.

[NY eric]

trailer

if I can find a truck in time that will pull the svo I will be going that way. Now I have to bring the wife and crumb grabber. She cant (wont drive stick) and dosnt want to drive by her self so We will see what happens next. I may be coming in something other than the SVO bt I will be coming.

[SVOMARK]

Both!

The Colonel will be towing one and I will be driving one.

The Colonel needs to get one of those Nascar 18 wheelers with custom SVO graphics on the side (Gator could design it!). Then we could haul all the SVO's to the show. Now that would be cool.

The hardest part is deciding which one to leave behind!

[svobrown]

I am driving right behind 140, that way he will keep the bugs off me.

[svorich]

Trailer

If I drove it my front tires would have the steel belts sticking out before I reached Atlanta.

Rich

[Otto Man]

Paul
Drive...............
Pick us up at Hagerstown. MD. Intersection of I 81 at I 70. I'll find a spot to meet. Hopefully a couple of us MD, NJ, NY PA, and northeast folks can congregating there early Thursday.
We should have quite the convoy.
Let's try to keep it around 1100 so we can arrive 6-ish?
Any thoughts?
Chris

[SVO4PWR2]

theres always U-Haul
-RICH-

[Mr. Pink]

Originally posted by Chris Weber

.....so we can arrive 6-ish?

No chance...not with the Cracker Barrell stops....