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Originally Posted by SAB1
I agree with dave603. That truck is not suited to tow a car cross country. Check into some of the options above but $950 to move that car from California. To Nh is not a bad deal. Make sure it is insured.
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The dolly is popular among Florida's Snowbirds. What's confusing to me is only half of the dolly (trailers) have license plates.
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According to previous responses, I've done everything wrong with towing!
I towed a 2600 pound sports car from Miami to Palo Alto with a 1.9 L VW camper. With the resale value of both vehicles being extremely high, I sold both when I got there, and flew back.
Most recently, I used a $100 yard sale dolly to tow a 3000 pound RWD stick-shift sedan behind a pickup truck—smaller than a Tacoma—for about eight hours. Having no confidence in the dolly tie-down straps, I used the front wheel lugs to chain the front of the car to the dolly. I later sold the dolly for $300. While it's never a good idea to tow with a vehicle that's lighter than the towed vehicle, you'll soon find that braking for two vehicles is the greatest challenge.
As for the Rocky Mountains—just don't go that way—but even if you do, you'll have the company of plenty of 18-wheelers. I made that same trip (via Dinosaur Nat'l Monument) with a '82 VW diesel camper—
42-Horsepower. Slow, but no worries!
But one indelible image sticks in my mind, and that was having a late-model Mustang pass me during a light rain in Florida, at which time he spun in the wet, hitting the barricade first with his front-, then with his back-end. Seeing that a rear-drive, high-horsepower car may not be the best match for New Hampshire's peculiar climate, why not save on insurance, towing, shipping, and sell the Mustang in California, where resale values are higher. Then apply all that to a more suitable New Hampshire vehicle with all-wheel drive?
Given that sentiment may be a factor, shipping by truck is the best bet.
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