| I'm thinking about a Jeep CJ-5 as a towd [message #324481] |
Sat, 30 September 2017 16:48  |
timthenomad
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Registered: June 2015
Location: Austin, TX
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Hi All,
I've read many of the towd threads and have been pondering it for a while. My desires for a towd are..
- lightweight
- can be towed 4 down (no room for a dolly)
- can fit a baby and a dog in the back seat
- Fun -- and looks, if not sexy, at least appropriate being towed behind a GMC
- Can double as second car for grocery getting and light runs around town
After a lot of thought and research the only vehicles that I was really interested in were...
Tracker
Checks a lot of the boxes, but I think as a vehicle it falls into the class of often loved, but seldom respected.
Samurai
Tempting, but I'd really like to be able to keep up with traffic on the interstate. I remember these things barely being able to hit 55 when new. Trucks blowing by would freak out the dog.
VW Thing
Love the look and period correctness. But sometimes these things look California cool and sometimes they just look like something Hitler would be driving. Also just too much of a classic (side curtains, no heat, unobtainium parts).
Dune Buggy
It looked cool when Barbie did it. I think cartoons in the seventies made Dune Buggies seem like a sensible life choice. I really shouldn't do this. I live in Texas, we have no Dunes.
Which leaves my thinking about a 80's ish CJ5. I have had no experience with them but I like the look a lot better than the CJ7. They are 10" shorter so I feel they may tuck in back there better and take up less room at the site. Curb weight of ~2600 lbs puts them in the range of a tracker. I like the 4wd and general toughness for national forest type camping.
Outfitted with some of the 80's graphic packages I one will look good back there.
http://www.phoenixgraphix.com/amc/1985jss.php
Should anyone be talking me out of this?
thanks
--tim
Tim Taylor
Austin TX
Philadelphia PA
76 Birchaven (SB)
76 Triumph TR6
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