Both are queens

 

They both arrive in their chariot but one is ready for battle and one is ready for tea.

Both and all walks of vehicles. Some Harley guys embrace it. The W.H.O.R.E.s (We Haul Our Rides Everywhere) I have been to Sturgis a couple of times, 1 I rode the 500 miles, 1 hauled because my Co-Pilot could not take the ride. The wife and I are too old to tent it anymore. next time will be a trailer and sleep in the Jeep.

I was in Daytona at Bike Week one time and wanted to buy a pair of gloves from a vendor. He didn't have my size but said they'd be in a delivery the next day; "where are you staying?"
I told him I lived in Davie, just west of Fort Lauderdale, and was going home.
"Ah, too bad. I could mail them to you?"
I said, "no, I'll just ride back up in the morning."
His mouth dropped open. "...that's gotta be over 200 miles...."
"240 each way. No problem."

I still have those gloves. Held makes very good gloves.
We used to meet at 0200 to ride up to Jacksonville for breakfast and then ride home the nice way.
Ride to eat; eat to ride.

My old license plate

My buddy's bike at breakfast

 

It's not just a Jeep term. I've heard it in the car world for decades, used generally to describe:

A) new car that hardly ever gets driven ("He bought a new F488 but he only drives it, like, 500 miles a year. It's a trailer queen.")

B) a restored older car, whether an actual show-car or not, that never gets driven for fear of the restoration being damaged or degraded after so much work was put into making the car perfect.

 

Yep. Any vehicle that needs a servant (tow rig) in front of it to go from point A to point B too often can be properly described as a trailer queen.

Mark

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Most all off road vehicles that are trailered are typically used for racing or other events.. then trailered back home.

The term you're referring to was derived from this...

"I also heard it used as a disparaging term for a show Jeep that is built to look impressive, but doesn't really go anywhere or do anything, and is trailered from show to show."

But let's be fair.. if its a show vehicle then that's a legitimate hobby for someone... and if they get jazzed over that then I'm glad they found something that takes away from the daily grind.

Racers tend to be the most critical about trailer queens..

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Actually, all my mates trailer their rigs, as do I, and none of us have ever raced or participated in a "special event". As soon as one tires of having to fix their junk before they can drive it home, or puts only nominally round bias ply tires on it, trailering starts to look pretty good.

We bought our jeep because we wanted something we could just get in and go (easy) wheeling in , and our 4runner hadn't been that for a number of years.

Mark

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Just for the record, I deleted "special" from my message while you were composing that response .. as someone that spent close to a decade riding out in the California desert, we would trailer our off road equipment for the obvious reasons. We would race every other weekend at our local track... "special events".

I see more ATVs on trailers than Jeeps.. in fact, I can't recall the first or last time I saw a Jeep being trailered.. perhaps it was in a transport well hidden from the critics.

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First, for the bike guys... its wanting to fit in and be a part of something bigger, but unwilling to be a true biker. Sturgis is a prime example. Lots of trucks and trailers about 30-50 miles outside of town, while the ride into town... even though they trailered the bikes across multiple states.

 

Tipically a vehicle that isn't meant to be driven much, or at all, could be a dedicated competition rig, or ofroad rig, or a just a show queen. Is really not Jeep specific.

 

Both and all walks of vehicles. Some Harley guys embrace it. The W.H.O.R.E.s (We Haul Our Rides Everywhere) I have been to Sturgis a couple of times, 1 I rode the 500 miles, 1 hauled because my Co-Pilot could not take the ride. The wife and I are too old to tent it anymore. next time will be a trailer and sleep in the Jeep.

 

Yeah, to me the term "trailer queen" means a show vehicle that is too pretty, nice or valuable to drive on public roads. But when I hear that a Jeep is trailered, I think of a Jeep that is built to the point that it's too hard core (or even illegal) to be driven on the road. Sorta complete opposites.

 

I think the second is the "queen", and the difference is the first, while trailered, is still driven/used.

 

Mine is a trailer queen. It gets used once a month strictly on the trails.

It's just not worth it to keep a one ton JK with a fuel cell street legal. I have not registered it in like 3 years. I technically could register it, all I need is a title in WA to get plates, but I dont care that much.

Also my sticky 40's would be bald in a week of street driving. The 4 tires literally cost as much as the diesel truck I bought to tow the jeep around.

It's like owning a really heavy, really expensive boat. Boats stay on a trailer until it gets to the location where it is going to be used.

It only has 37,000 miles on it and it will likely never see 40k


In aviation, we have what is called a hangar queen. It's just a bird that never leaves the hangar and gets parts robbed off of it. Its a big deal when you finally get the hangar queen flying again.

 

 

If you're going to post pictures of my family, post the pictures of the rich ones too.

 

For some reason Mama June was the first thing I thought of.

 

To me the term "Queen" refers to one of beauty and priveledge....so trailer queen is not really meant to mean a Jeep/racecar that is towed from place to place and then driven offroad or at races. The trailer queen normally references a show vehicle that doesn't get driven because it's "too" nice to drive.

 

I also heard it used as a disparaging term for a show Jeep that is built to look impressive, but doesn't really go anywhere or do anything

I always called those pavement princesses

 

Nah, that would be a Sahara.

 

^^ :lmao: :funnypost:

 

I always referred to my eventual plans for my Jeep to become a "trailer queen" meaning she would be built up past the point of easily driving on road to a destination, therefore requiring me to purchase a truck and trailer...

 

To me, a trailer queen is any vehicle that is still street legal but the owner doesn't have the fortitude to drive it to the region he wishes to explore. He chooses to trailer it instead.

 

I live 1000+ miles from any mountains worth wheeling. My Jeep is very capable of making it but my back at this age isn't. My Jeep rides the trailer and I ride the big leather Silverado. We are both very happy.

 

"A trailer queen is a pampered vehicle that gets trailered to car shows by their owners. Reasons for the trailer include a vehicle that may be too fast, too slow, or even too beautiful to be driven to a show."

We call our Vette (and Camaro when it was drivable) drivers.

 

I was in the Navy the first time I heard the term "queen" and it was then "hanger bay queen". Similar to "hanger queen", but on the carrier, they are hanger bays and there are 3 with substantial fire doors in between. If an aircraft is not flight worthy for some reason and you don't have the part to fix it, it is put in HB 3. It then becomes the supply source for parts for aircraft that are still flying. Most times at the end of the cruise, hanger bay queens are offloaded by the crane and then towed to the hanger.

 

Uncle, a thread for this? Here you go...

 

Right here

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So what's the purpose of a forum if you send everyone to Google??
Would get pretty boring here real quick.

 

This thread shows up in the Google search now.
I think that's pretty Zen.

 

Agree with Maxtor. At least give a friggin clue to what the heck you are pointing toward.

I'm not clicking no stinkin link without a reference.

 

Non-streetable Jeeps/vehicles and "broken" ones need trailers

Well this thread certainly went to "crap" after the series of humorous photo postings :lmao:

Back to the topic at hand... there is a very practical/legal need to trailer vehicles that are not licensed for street use - they cannot have their wheels touching the pavement/be legally driven or towed on the road, AKA in some states you can't flat tow them if they are licensed for off-road use/racing use only (aren't licensed for public roads).

The other reason is mechanical breakage (read a couple of paragraphs below).

To avoid a trailer or dolly, we fitted CJ5 with Warn rear (yes rear) hubs on the Detroit-locked Dana 44 for "flat towing" behind a diesel pusher RV (yes modern-day Jeeps can be flat towed w/o disconnecting drive train components if you follow the instructions in the owner's manual). But the hubs are hard to position to re-lock them after free-wheeling them, and we blew one hub out at a Death Valley run possible too much V8 power to the wheel or the hub had a mech failure. Have heard of others blowing hubs too. There were a good number of Warn rear hub part at teh run and we were able to repair the CJ5 for the return run home missed out on a few days of runs wrenching on the Jeep. If you break and axle or drive shaft on the trail the hubs are handy to have if you can't do/don't have the parts for a trail fix.

Also it's nice to have a couple of road-licensed Jeeps on trailers in your run group on an outing - so if someone in the group breaks an axle or road-critical suspension component on the trail, you can limp the Jeep back to camp and drag it onto a trailer for a ride home, sometimes hundreds of miles away. The rule was you had to foot the gas bill to return the drive-able originally trailered Jeep home, and maybe even be the one to drive it, so the trailer owner could drag your broken Jeep home with their tow vehicle and trailer as a favor to you.

So lots of legitimate reasons for trailering a Jeep beyond vanity or whatever.

Not the best photo of the driver's rear Warn Dana 44 full floater rear hub but you can see this in an early build photo of our '74 CJ5.

Another photo of the Warn Dana 44 axle/hub kit I saw some new REar Warn hubs for sale on the website for a popular speed shop that has a warehouse in Reno, Nevada.