These folks just can’t bear to go on vacation and leave anything at home. There’s the skis on the roof, the motorcycle out back, the cargo trailer full of…and the pop-up camper. Oh, wait, honey; we forgot the boat!
Curbside Outtake: Ready For Anything
– Posted on June 1, 2024
The boat? They can just remove the cargo box, take off the lid, and presto, two kayaks.
You would think with a Lexus, they could stay at an all-inclusive resort.
I weep for that automatic transmission.
As my young nephew used to say… “Look mom, it’s a parade!”
I may add life jackets and an inflatable boat. A good mountain bike is also a good option. In his or her setup in the photo, the person needs a portable gasoline tank.
Wayback when NYC was still under continuous threat from large scale terrorist attack around yr2010s, my friend who worked in a public agency had a mountain bike in his office, his rationale was in case of attacks there would impossible to move around with vehicle and mass transit as we saw during 9:11, people walked across Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge to move away downtown Manhattan.
More I heard from someone who worked for a very famous hedge fund company, his owner had his own escape route. Since the owner was wealthy enough, rumor was he had someone with a boat ready anytime to pick him or his family members to cross the Hudson River. Once in New Jersey, they use regular mopeds to go its twin engine plane in Linden to move away NYC area. I am not sure how real and reliable of his escape plan was. For me it sounds like a bad plot for a novel.
There’s room for a rack on that trailer.
This reminds me of a marina owner in Maine. A guy came into his lot and parked his RV, which had two small dirt bikes on a front bumper rack, a small aluminum johnboat on the roof, bicycles strapped down along the johnboat, and a VW Rabbit in tow. They were going to stay at a local lakeside camp and wanted to arrange a boat rental.
Harold, the marina owner, looked at the guy and said in his deep Maine accent: “you don’t plan on doing much walking, do you?”
Hold my beer…
Honestly though, I only did this within my yard to move some stuff that had been in storage back to the shed in the background when everything had to be moved out from under it to lay gravel down on the ground so nothing would get bogged down back there when it rained. This was back in August 2020 and within recent months some more gravel was laid all the way around the path to where I parked to get this picture.
It wasn’t a very long distance by any means, but my 2011 4-cylinder Ranger handled it no problem. In tow is the rear half of an old Nissan 720 pickup with a Wells Cargo 4×6 enclosed trailer hitched to the rear bumper; both trailers & my truck were literally filled to the brim. I seriously doubt this would be highway legal and would strongly advise against it especially with nothing tied down, but it got the job done!
My dad bought a used RX330 like that as a counterpart to his work truck. It’s borderline tedious to drive, but great to be a passenger in. Weirdly enough, of all the vehicles I’ve driven, it most reminds me of a ’99 Park Avenue my buddy had during and after high school. They both have that kind of lazy loping sensation on the freeway. It even has that same distant groan when you put your foot down to remind you how much work 3.3 liters has to do to force 2+ tons of blubber down the road at a decent pace. The Lexus’ V6 definitely has better lungs, though, with it’s many cams as opposed to the Buick’s one.
They put a lot of rules around two trailers here, because once upon a time they didnt and 3 trailer sets behind cars with enough power were how new caravans were delivered to dealers,
Of course now you’d use a big diesel pickup for such a task when a 272 Customline did the job back in the day.
A mini road train.