Enclosed Trailer

[GaryR]

Originally Posted by winders

You will be sorry if you buy an 18 foot trailer. I would buy nothing less than 24 feet. I have a 24 foot enclosed trailer for my air-cooled 911 race car and sometimes I wish it were 26 feet.

Scott

Agree with Scott, I have a 24' V-nose Thule all aluminum and it's quite full. Only time I would go smaller is with one of those tiny Trailex enclosed that I only had an SUV to pull with and I needed to park/hide it in my garage. Fits the car and a set of tires, that's it!

[175K911]

Originally Posted by winders

You will be sorry if you buy an 18 foot trailer. I would buy nothing less than 24 feet. I have a 24 foot enclosed trailer for my air-cooled 911 race car and sometimes I wish it were 26 feet.

Scott

I'll also agree with Scott. And I'll go even further- I got rid of my open deck trailer and bought an 18' v-nose trailer thinking I could still tow it with my V8 BMW X5. With a shelf and cabinet across the front I could NOT fit my 911 and a 4 wheeler in there. Way too small. And the X5 couldn't pull it anyway

So I sold it and built a bigger trailer. Spec'd a Vintage that has a 20' box plus a 3' v-nose so the total floor length inside is 23' (overall length with tonge of 28'). Can fit the 911 (or SpecMiata) plus 4 wheeler and a small 125cc dirt bike in there.

However (and there's always a caveat isn't there?) by the time I load up the trailer I'm close to 7000 lbs (dual 5200lb axles) and now the GMC Yukon Denali with the big 415hp 6.2L engine struggles to pull it. On a recent trip to MidOhio pulling a SpecMiata for a friend I got 8 mpg going out, and 5.9 mpg into a head wind coming back. No possible way a 1/2 tone truck or a Tahoe or Suburban will pull it without spending all the time shifting between 3rd and 4th gear. Need a Duramax turbodiesel but no way I can afford that. So remember that a bigger trailer needs a bigger tow vehicle.