Looking for open trailer

Don Barnes · #1 (**permalink**) 12-21-2010, 08:28 AM

Looking for new or used open aluminum tilt car trailer, 16 to 18 feet. Thx, db

redmt · #2 (**permalink**) 12-21-2010, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Barnes

Looking for new or used open aluminum tilt car trailer, 16 to 18 feet. Thx, db

Just curious, why would you want aluminum for a flat deck trailer? Weight?
A conventional frame and wooden deck only weighs out around 1500 depending on configuration.

Don Barnes · #3 (**permalink**) 12-21-2010, 09:50 AM

Sorry guys, I should have explained myself. I will be using this tilting trailer to recover street cars and race cars at a new race track I am working with. We are trying to avoid spending $25K on a roll back wrecker. I have used an open tilting trailer with a winch many times to scrap up the remains of cars that go off track. Thx, db #2723

Commissioner · #4 (**permalink**) 12-31-2010, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by redmt

Just curious, why would you want aluminum for a flat deck trailer? Weight?
A conventional frame and wooden deck only weighs out around 1500 depending on configuration.

In the past 15 years, I have had a steel flat deck, (rusty and looked like crap due to outdoor storage), then a Pace enclosed, (convenient for safe travel storage, but very heavy to pull, 8-9mpg), and now a Featherlite Flatbed alum. trailer with a nose guard. The weight savings is tremendous (haul 66 Vette or 67 Shelby GT350), and the mileage on the interstates pulling with an '08 Tahoe is about 15mpg. I love the savings on the long distance pulls, plus it looks nicer and will hold up longer, hopefully. Featherlite makes a heckuva nice trailer and the nose piece protects the front of the cars.

redmt · #5 (**permalink**) 12-31-2010, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Commissioner

In the past 15 years, I have had a steel flat deck, (rusty and looked like crap due to outdoor storage), then a Pace enclosed, (convenient for safe travel storage, but very heavy to pull, 8-9mpg), and now a Featherlite Flatbed alum. trailer with a nose guard. The weight savings is tremendous (haul 66 Vette or 67 Shelby GT350), and the mileage on the interstates pulling with an '08 Tahoe is about 15mpg. I love the savings on the long distance pulls, plus it looks nicer and will hold up longer, hopefully. Featherlite makes a heckuva nice trailer and the nose piece protects the front of the cars.

AHh! That would make sense. When I read his original post , I related it to MY USAGE. My trailer gets used quite frequently so it doesn't have a chance to rust and I don't pull it with an SUV. Mileage makes no difference with weight unless I'm up against a long pull or extended head winds. I get pretty much the same mileage loaded or empty. Miles per hour will greatly reduce my MPG expectations tho.