tow vehicle size

["Olivia Greene" <taniahearts@hotmail.com>]

More fuel for the tow vehicle debate:

I agree that an awful lot of people tow with vehicles really too small to do 
a safe job in the long run.  I used to be one of them.  I've towed my 
Brenderup (supposed to be OK pulled by a 6 cylinder car) with a 6 cylinder 
Chevy Blazer - worked great on flat land, but in the mountains of New 
England I burned out a clutch, then after getting that fixed burned out the 
transmission (though it took a couple years of hauling to accomplish this).

Mechanics told me if I used a larger tow vehicle this wouldn't happen again. 
  So when I could afford any thing at all larger I got a 20+ year old (8 
cylinder) 1/2 ton Suburban.  I was amazed at being able to get to rides in 
half the time because I didn't crawl up hills anymore.  But when I 
eventually got a newer 3/4 ton Suburban (both Suburbans were 350) it was the 
best yet. It gets 15m./gal.towing.  I did have a 454 Chevy for a short time, 
but its terrible (8m./gal.) gas efficiency  made more difference to me than 
being able to cruise up mountains over the speed limit (I didn't need to 
encourage that behavior in myself either)!

-Olivia
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