You can tow it with a car
Not all Australian Touring Caravans weigh 8000lb, there are lightweight single axle models, like this 4,200lb , 22ft version that can be easily towed by a car.
Forum Discussion
Terryallan wrote:
"Thing is. Many on the forum are either too young, or too new at towing to remember how it was done BEFORE trucks were both popular, and as comfortable as today. My FIL towed 26' TTs with a 67 Chevelle. We didn't think we had to have a truck to tow a trailer. We just did it with what we had. We thought nothing of piling the family in the car hooking up and going anywhere we wanted. The big V8 under the hood would get us there. Also remember those cars were RWD...
...So folks used their cars, station wagons and such to tow their boats, and RVs. AND the brake controllers were manually operated. His had a big lever sticking out the front so that he could activate the TT brakes with his knee."
Some years prior to this scenario (1963, I believe), my father pulled my grandparents 23' 1960 Terry travel trailer (I don't think they made "Lite" models back then) from southern New Mexico to California and back with my grandparents 1963 Studebaker Lark station wagon with a tiny little 232 cubic inch V-8. Granted, the same engine in a Golden Hawk would top 120 MPH and the combo was the official pace car at Indianapolis for a number of years, but this was a small car and engine for those days. With a WD hitch (pretty high-tech back then), a manual brake controller, and six of us in the car, we made it to CA and back without any problems. The biggest issue was the tension between my mother and her MIL. (Oh - and my sisters and I were mortified that the station wagon was "Salmon" colored - popular at that time.)
This being said, I wouldn't dream of doing something like that nowadays (and my grandparents got a 3/4 pickup sometime after that to pull the trailer) - but it wasn't seen as all that unusual in those days.
"Thing is. Many on the forum are either too young, or too new at towing to remember how it was done BEFORE trucks were both popular, and as comfortable as today. My FIL towed 26' TTs with a 67 Chevelle. We didn't think we had to have a truck to tow a trailer. We just did it with what we had. We thought nothing of piling the family in the car hooking up and going anywhere we wanted. The big V8 under the hood would get us there. Also remember those cars were RWD...
...So folks used their cars, station wagons and such to tow their boats, and RVs. AND the brake controllers were manually operated. His had a big lever sticking out the front so that he could activate the TT brakes with his knee."
Some years prior to this scenario (1963, I believe), my father pulled my grandparents 23' 1960 Terry travel trailer (I don't think they made "Lite" models back then) from southern New Mexico to California and back with my grandparents 1963 Studebaker Lark station wagon with a tiny little 232 cubic inch V-8. Granted, the same engine in a Golden Hawk would top 120 MPH and the combo was the official pace car at Indianapolis for a number of years, but this was a small car and engine for those days. With a WD hitch (pretty high-tech back then), a manual brake controller, and six of us in the car, we made it to CA and back without any problems. The biggest issue was the tension between my mother and her MIL. (Oh - and my sisters and I were mortified that the station wagon was "Salmon" colored - popular at that time.)
This being said, I wouldn't dream of doing something like that nowadays (and my grandparents got a 3/4 pickup sometime after that to pull the trailer) - but it wasn't seen as all that unusual in those days.