----- Original Message -----
From: <WEmery7451@aol.com>
To: <billsohl@mindspring.com>; <s.janzen@comcast.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Tow Vehicle Recommendations?
> In a message dated 10/10/05 6:24:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> billsohl@mindspring.com writes:
>
> << Have you considered a light truck? I pull a 24
> foot travel trailer (weighs about 5000#) with a
> Chevy Silverado 1500, Extended Cab with a
> 5.3L gas engine. >>
>
> I think that the tow vehicle requirements vary as to whether you are
> towing
> across flat areas of Ohio and the Midwest, or the hills and mountains of
> Pennsylvania and West Virginia. My 1987 Ford Econoline 250 Grunt Wagon
> recently
> started to over heat with hills and mountains. Of course, the junk that I
> am
> carrying and the trailer grew heavier over the years.
I agree, and will add that I have pulled up and down many a PA hill...as
well
as other in NY with my truck.
Most recent trip was NJ to Nova Scotia (Cape Breton) by way of
Watkins Glen.
Cheers,
Bill Sohl
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