Remember the Long Long Trailer
 

Where they pulled a 6000 pound trailer for the most part with a 53 Mercury 105 horsepower flat head V8 (a Lincoln Capri was used in one scene because they needed that big 205 horsepower engine on the mountain:D).

well, look at this and read the review. While at the SEMA convention - welcome to mrtrailer.com

It just might be the answer for a smaller tow vehicle. Has anyone tried one of these?

Charlie

I just have to say...we love that movie! "Turn left right here"

Or when Lucy falls out of the camper doorway into the mud after a hard rain in the middle of the night with the camper bogged down on a forest service road, Desi leans out of the door and says "What's the matter honey, you can't sleep?"

Dee

the scene where they have to back up on a hairpin turn to make the corner on the mountain will give you goosebumps...

also, Desi talks about the trailer 'electric brakes' which i found interesting...

Thought I had taken a photo of that particular turn on our recent trip up to Mt. Whitney but couldn't find it. I believe this was taken just above that turn.

That sort of looks like a riff on an old slimp wheel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWh6itOzJSA

Would be interesting to know if that counts as a third axle on the tow vehicle on some toll roads. On the 70 mile stretch of Kansas Turnpike between KC and our exit the toll is $3 for four axles and $7 for five axles.