Vintage towing strain?

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My weekend fun car is an 1925 4 seat open tourer, its fitted with its original 1250cc OHV 4 cylinder engine which is in good to very good running condition. Its no ball of fire to drive with its 3 speed gearbox but is reliable. My question is that I would like to tow my 1934 vintage caravan with this car, the caravan wieghs in at 630kg which is around two thirds weight of the car. I had a test towing of a similer weight car to see how my car would cope and it did reasonble well as could be expected. My area is Suffolk/ Norfolk so not to challinging so far as hills are concerned. Am I really asking to much of the car tho and would the occasional towing be likely to cause mechanical damage?

[stevieturbo]

Thats a very open ended question !!!

I know I wouldnt like to be towing such weight ( dont forget weight of car and passengers and luggage ) with such a low powered vehicle.

I wouldnt even contemplate it with a modern 1200cc engine.

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Thanks for honest reply Stevieturbo, in my heart I think I know that I should get a larger engined vintage car. A case of can't do it all, either keep my old vintage car or swop it for something better suited, or not bother with caravan I guess.

[agent006]

It's not the lack of power i'd be worried about, it's the lack of braking power.

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agent006 said:

It's not the lack of power i'd be worried about, it's the lack of braking power.

Interesting issue, my car has rear wheel brakes only but at least work 100% and lock the wheels. The caravan has brakes and I will be driving at only 30mph at best, less in town I suppose. But right now I'm thinking about changing cars maybe.