Recommend: cheap tow vehicle

[inreb]

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What model car should I search for 3.8L Buick?

 

[GreyGhost]

I think I've watched that, is that the one where the boat launches over the trailer and takes out the back window of the car?

I towed a 3000lb shark with a deisel jetta, the hitch you can order from germany has twice the load limit of the NA version. at 28ft overall and 9 ft high with the mast on deck it was a package. I spent $1200 on the hitch and special wiring (low voltage tailights, thank you german engineers). We did it once.

Thankfully only had to do it once and there was no damage. I attached the safety chain and inspected the mast before we did it. It worked surprisingly well (although to push the car out, the boat was wfo on the trailer. Super sketchy). Only one ramp on that lake, steep concrete and wet.

Towing the tornado with a vw is shady enough (too tall for my liking at ~6' and I'm always worried about the mast and the roof having an encounter in a dip), I wouldn't touch a shark.

 

[GreyGhost]

What model car should I search for 3.8L Buick?

Regal if you want sporty (ie. almost no steering feel), park avenue/lesabre if you want luxury (ie. no steering feel at all). 3.8L stopped around 2005.

 

[daught]

Older Audi A8 4.2? 5000LB towing capacity and they depreciate like crazy. (not serious, but cool idea)

 

[Gary]

What model car should I search for 3.8L Buick?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/buick/gnx/1641458.html

 

[inreb]

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/buick/gnx/1641458.html

No can do, my upper limit is $70,000.

 

[crankcall]

how about a decommissioned police cruiser, push bars on the front and a searchlight bolted to the door, great for night launches.

Old Crown Vic should be handy for getting dates to, girls on Barton would just pile in the back like its a reflex.....

 

[daught]

^ Lol win

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