Ideas for a truck to pull 6500lb trailer?

otterslide wrote:

MitchF150 wrote:
I had my little #5000 TT for 16 years and traded it in for 1/2 the price I paid for it brand new back in 2002!

Good luck!

Mitch

Which trailer model did you have?
Thanks again, I'm narrowing down on a few trucks in my area now. I'll try to get something with enough extra towing capacity.

It was a 2003 Prowler Lynx 722F. I told the dealer over the phone what it was and how it was kept and that it never had any leaks and always maintained with a cover during the winter and on and on..

When he tossed out a trade in price of $6500 I paused a few seconds and finally said "Okay, that sounds pretty good.."

I was expecting maybe $3000 at most and would have taken that!

We made the deal, and the dealer still had not physically seen it. I even asked him if he really needed to see it first.. He said "no, if it's not how you say it is, then we will talk, but if it's as you say, it's a deal". I didn't lie about anything. We had done a lot of mods to it as well, and I told him of all of those and even still had the original parts that I included with it.

We spent 2 days unloading and cleaning it up. Once we got all our stuff out, cleaned it from top to bottom, it really cleaned up nice! I was impressed and felt really good about it when I towed it to them to pick up the new trailer.

They looked it over and said it's a deal and I drove off with the new trailer.

Come to find out they have already sold it, but don't know what they sold it for...

So, in the end, covering it up all these years paid off in the end!





Good luck!

Mitch