Towing Advice for moving across country...

[smh0101]

So in Feb I'll be moving to Raleigh NC and that begs the questoin how to move what little possessions I have and get the car across the country safely.

Here are the basics of what I have to take with me...
Full Size Bed w/box spring
Dresser
Night Stand
TV
Dishes
Tools in a Tool Box
Clothes
Some Books & Magazines.
Random other small things.


Here are the options I think I have ...

1) Renting a Truck... Towing the car on a flat bed trailer...

2) Renting a small Trailer and towing it with the Legacy

3) Craigslisting everything and buy all new shit in NC.


I'm most likely to do number 2

My question is... what is the most anyone has towed with their Legacy for an extended period of time? Has anyone done what I'm talking about? Any comments or concerns?

Anything helps, since I'm in the planning stages Im just looking for any advice I can get.

[ericem]

Honestly sell all your furniture and just drive your car and take small things with you. When you get there stop by ikea....

[Airgne]

if you do tow with your legacy, remember if the trail starts to get wipy on you dont hit the brakes. hit the gas and it will straighten out.

[sporkedtospec]

Sell whatever you can live without and pick up everything else when you get here. I'm in Raleigh and CL is strong here.
You could probably pick up all of the large things like bed frame, dresser etc. for free on a good day.

Let me know a couple of weeks before you make the trip and what you'll need, I'll see if anything pops up and try to grab it.

[evolutionmovement]

If your furniture is nothing nice, I'd get new stuff as well. Don't know the market in NC, but a good place for wood furniture up here is antique shops or CL. You can get good solid wood pieces with dovetail joints for cheaper than a lot of the particle board trash they sell in places. Just because it's antique doesn't mean it's valuable, but much of it is very well made to have survived. I have a 150+ year old Sheraton dresser in excellent condition that's worth maybe $250. It's solid cherry, hand-cut dovetails, and THICK flame birch veneer drawer fronts. Hardware was replaced sometime probably in the '30's plus it's fairly common so it's not old enough to be valuable. I actually found it on the side of the road. My dresser and bed are solid wood, dovetail, probably from the '60's that I got for free. Refinishing, repairs, and updating cost me less than $150 (mostly for the stainless hardware). These are not only better made than anything you'll get for less than ten times the price, but more interesting to look at. And being of little value, refinishing how you want isn't going to ruin it. You might have to get a piece at a time so matching could be tough if that matters.

[206er]

is your car 5mt or 4eat? if 5mt you should be cool to tow whatever(still dont push it on the hills) but with 4eat i would be kinda worried about getting the trans hot. going in february you should make sure your car is dialled in and has good tires. you dont want to go breaking down in BFE when its 10* and snowing or sliding off the road. Ive never towed in the snow before but i think trailers tend to push a vehicle around when its slick.

how about this- buy a big box van for about 3k, put the subaru and whatever else in there, sell it for 3k when you get to your destination.

[555BCTurbo]

Solution:

Turn SS into an El Camino SS

[Mattheww044]

or a brat..... with a brat trailer like this....

[fishbone79]

That is friggin hilarious!

Where have I seen that picture before??