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Brian,
Welcome to the car shipper's club!! The current (June) issue of
Car Collector magazine has a great article on "transporting your car" starting
on page 50. In addition to all the tips and advice, it lists many commercial
carriers addresses & phone numbers and some of them offer their advice
as well.
Pick up an issue and check it out.
If you can't find it let me know and I'll try and send you a copy.
Brian Skogler
57 D500s in Michigan
Brian Carpenter wrote:
I
am looking for any advice that the list might have concerning shipping
of a car. Hopefully, if everything works out, I will soon be the
proud owner of a forward-look car ('57 Belvedere). The problem I
have is how to get it from San Francisco to Minneapolis. Driving
it back here is a pretty unattractive option (the factors being time and
whether or not the car would survive the 2,000-mile trip), therefore, it
looks like I am going to have to resort to having it shipped here and I
am looking for any advice on how to keep the costs of this as low as possible.
Any thoughts that you veterans of this stuff might have regarding what
company to use and any other tricks aimed at keeping the price down would
be much appreciated. In
case you can't tell, I am new to all of this, in fact, this is my first
"classic car" purchase of any kind and I am looking forward to picking
all of your brains as I work on getting this one back to it's original
glory. As far as I'm concerned, these forward-look cars that we all
love so much are rolling, V-6 and V-8 powered works of art. Sadly,
looking at today's automobile industry, it appears that it has become a
dead art (is it just me or do most of the cars on the road these days look
like carbon-copies of whatever is sitting right next to 'em?), which is
all the more reason to get these beauties back on the street and remind
people of how it once was and how it could be again. Ok, enough of
this sappy crap. Thanks
for any help that any of you are able to offer. -Brian
Carpenterbcarpenter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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