A stock 1-ton panel with its low rear gears and brakes designed to stop 8,800 pounds could be safer towing a heavy trailer than your 1/2-ton 'burb either stock or with Camaro stuff. It may not go as fast and that would be part of the safety.
If you are pulling one of those tiny tear drop trailers I wouldn't expect much trouble, but you will have increased your capacity to load cargo, without having increased your stopping capacity.
The Camaro might have weighed 4,000 and was not rated to pull much of a trailer.
