B190 Enthusiasts

The first week of November we took our first major trip with our tow car setup. Kentucky to Saint Joseph Peninsula State Park Florida. Then to Fort Pickens National Park off the coast from Pensacola Florida and back home. Eight days and fourteen hundred miles. The B190 and tow car did great!

We have a Chevy Tracker for our tow vehicle. It is a 1991 Tracker with four wheel drive, manual transmission and manual locking hubs. At a little over two thousand pounds, the Tracker is an effortless pull that tracks perfectly behind the B190 all wheels down.

I’m using a Roadmaster Invisibrake installed in the Tracker for remote braking. I mounted our bikes our a carrier attached to the B190 spare tire above the tow bar.

I suppose that it was very fitting that we had snow falling as we left Kentucky for our beach trip!

Saint Joseph Peninsula State Park has two camp grounds. Both are nice. We had a nice private setting within a five minute walk to the beach.

The Tracker was super convenient for local outings.

Saint Joseph Peninsula State Park was terrific with miles of bright white sand beaches and abundant wildlife. Notice no one on the beach but us!

Packed up the rig in the middle of the week and headed for Pensacola to Fort Pickens National Park.

Fort Pickens was again… miles of white beaches… just a few people… beautiful sun and surf.

Blue Angels practiced above our campground each day at 2:00Pm. Man I wish those guys wouldn’t fly so close together! But wow are they good!

Next day we drove the Tracker into the Naval Air Station for a great tour of the Naval Aviation Museum!

Last night on Pensacola bay...

Hooked up and ready for the drive back home!

O.k…. funny story. So I stop and fill up the tanks in the B190 and the Tracker. My wife is inside buying some tea so I calculate the fuel economy to see what it cost us to pull the Tracker to Florida. I was pretty impressed! We were getting about 10 mpg towing the Tracker. (We have the 460 cubic inch V8 engine.) So then I calculate the mileage for the Tracker…. 158mpg! I’m thinking wait a minute that can’t be right… then I remember the engine off tow miles on the Tracker odometer… duh!

All in all another great outing in the B190!

That's a nice setup and a wonderful trip. There are some great parks down along the panhandle. Thanks for the pictures.

Thanks for the pics and the suggestions for camping spots, sounds like a great trip!

Thanks for the story Kentuckian. We have a 98 Tracker auto w/4 wheel drive. Where did you get the tow bar setup?

Phil

Planck,
I used Roadmaster hardware from 'eTrailer.com'. Roadmaster makes brackets to fit the front frame of the Tracker. I just checked and they do list brackets for your '98 Chevy Tracker.