After many decades of rally involvement I've learned the hard way, too many times, that pinching pennies is false economy. I'll share the following and then you may make of it what you will:
- I never wear intercoms when I'm towing. Ever ... ;-)
- Tow dollies are OK, I suppose, as long as you keep track of which way all the wheels start pointing if you ever need to back up. I've used them in the past and would again if in a big enough pinch ...
- Tow dollies are better than flat towing or driving the rally car to events. I got to drive a near-totalled Peugeot 504 rally car home twice after rolling a total of 540 degrees at two different events. The first return trip included 150 miles with a busted tie rod that was splint with a green tree branch secured by a bag full of hose clamps and a roll of duct tape. It wasn't pretty, or even very smart, but it worked that one time ...
- Trailers are better than any of the above after roll overs and other major shunts, even when towed by a puny 1/2 ton pickup. I towed a 2-axle trailer with a BMW 2002 road race car aboard all over MiDiv behind a 4 cylinder Toyota 4Runner so if you're not in a rush going up hills or bucking headwinds your heavy trailer and that pickup really should suffice. I also did a mess of miles towing trailered rally cars across the country using a 6-banger Ford 1/2 ton pickup with a 3-speed on the tree, no cruise and no a/c. Of course, I have to admit that Rally Distributing has forever spoiled me for tow rigs with the hotted-up Cummins Dodge dually Don Stehphens keeps loaning me. Accelerating uphill into a headwind on the cruise control towing a rally car that weighs near twice what that Bimmer did is kind of a rush, actually. Now, if it only had a CD player ...
- Twin-axle trailers are WAY better than single axle trailers. The comment about the rally family helping when a team is down on their luck certainly rings true. On the way to Big Bend Bash in the 70s one of the rims on a loaner single axle trailer split. Without a spare and pressed for time we chained the trailer to something concrete in a culvert outside Ft. Stockton and drove the rally car to Alpine. Of course, we blew up the car that weekend so Tommy French was kind enough to tow our car while his crew drove the SAAB to where we'd abandoned the trailer. A freindly Ft. Stockton junk yard owner set us up with rims for the trip home and didn't even bankrupt me ...
- Terraphones are OK until you use a Peltor. I don't know how many times I told Rebecca Greek, "It's a Peltor, stop yelling" on Colorado Cog.

She was used to Terraphones. Search eBay ever day for "Peltor" and you can probably score an intercom and headsets reasonably enough ...
- Mostly, you just need to count on Murphy being proven an optimist any time the words, "That'll be good enough for this trip" are uttered prepping for an event.
Halley ...
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