Hello all! Ill try and keep this as concise as possible.

Im getting ready to graduate in December and settle down with the love of my life...and she loves horses! She will have one when we move several hours north next spring. However, neither of us have a suitable tow vehicle or horse trailer.

On that hand, my hobbies before I met this girl include four wheeling, motorcycles, and also muscle cars!

We BOTH love camping and I had planned on getting a suitable truck and fifth wheel in the first place. So finally here is the question.

My logic leads me to believe that instead of buying a flatbed, camping trailer, car trailer, enclosed trailer, and horse trailer, I should buy one rather nice horse trailer w/ LQ...

Now, I know you can put horses, four wheelers, and motorcycles in the back of a horse trailer, but can you get a trailer wide enough to hold a musclecar? Im not totally worried about how large it may have to be or the tow vehicle as it seems justifiable to spend the money on one nice trailer instead of five. Just tryin to learn here, as Im a newb! Thanks in advance for any help!

Brandon

hey thanks for the response ya'll!

well for instance a 70 chevelle is about 16.5 feet long and about 7 feet wide ( my favorite)

and a 70 challenger can go about 16 feet long and 7 feet wide ( her favorite haha!)

so technically an 8 footer would work but arent the wheel wells inboard on 8 foot wide trailers? you can get trailers with ramps on back right? that would be nice...

what is this stock combo trailer exactly? I understand what is said about the collapsible tack room but I wouldnt even mind having an LQ trailer with the mid tack room in the middle...just thinkin out loud right now...

How "wide" ( long) is a slant load stall? In other words, if you emptied out the back of a four horse slant, how much room would you have wall to ramp? does that make any sense?

I just see it as less trailers to store/maintain/update/register/insure/etc.

hahaha I truly understand, trust me!

I don't ever intend to sway her away, I grew up on a small hobby farm myself with 20 acres, 10 head of cattle, bottle calves, dogs, etc. I have nothing against the horse thing, just never had a direct interest, nor money, nor was I raised directly around horses. Just ignorance at this stage for me! Im learning slowly!

Yes the wheels are usually in board on an 8' trailer.   You will have a really tight fit with most cars inside as far as width.

ATV's,  Motorcycles etc are no big deal.   But if you are really hauling cars around. You may want to consider a second trailer.

Most of the trailer manufacture website, give dimensions for their trailers. And a 16-17 foot long car will be tough to get in length wise.  A 4 horse LQ with a 9' LQ is 25'-27' long on the box.  With the slant on the butt wall of the horse compartment, it will not be 16' long.

You can have anything you want fabricated. Look around the trailers for sale here to give you a good idea what horse trailers with living quarters entail. Go to a nearby horse trailer dealership and tell them what you want. They will help you make what you want. I would recommend a mid-tack so you can drive your cars up without having to collapse the rear tack which is a pain every time you want to do something different. Or, just get two trailers. Many of us with large LQ trailers end up with a 2 horse for quick trips anyhow.

Like she stated earlier, the horse thing does not tend to go away. It gets bigger.

Good luck!

Understood. Two trailers I guess could be more justifiable than one monster. I just want to avoid a parking lot full. I went to Main Trailer Sales in Seymour, IN twice now. http://www.maintrailersales.com/default.aspx

Jared the guy there has been very helpful but the subject of building a custom trailer has never come up. Any rough idea what something like that could cost?!?!? Sounds like a $50K plus request...

Jared the guy there has been very helpful but the subject of building a custom trailer has never come up. Any rough idea what something like that could cost?!?!? Sounds like a $50K plus request...

 That's quite a possibility depending on how fancy you want to be...get two trailers, it's easier in the long run

Take your $50 K and purchase two used trailers; a used LQ horse trailer and a car/toy hauler. To try to combine the usefulness of both into one, would mean that each purpose would be compromised. It would be better to have two, each performing as it should.

Gard

dang this board is pretty active!

oh yes, Im sure there will be second horse in the future.  I think buckskins are just beautiful! There will prolly be alot of pairs in our future LOL!

I think you guys are probably right, it will probably just take two good trailers to do everything. Because If I take my car, she will want to take hers and that immediately ruins the idea of one trailer for all...

Well that sure makes things easier. And yah car trailers aren't cheap but they aren't unbearable...