Dan,
I bought a TR4 450 miles away and had it retrieved by a local
transfer guy with a flatbed carrier. He was the best reputable
deal I could find and he charged me $700 for the 900 mile round
trip.
If you wanted to move a small amount of furniture that far you
would find the cost to be about the same. I know we recently
"saved" some furniture from my wife's mothers home that sold and
for what is cost to move it 300 miles we could have bought new
stuff.
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L - Groton, MA
sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ferguson <fergie@ntplx.net>
To: Dan Scharpf <dscharpf@hotmail.com>
Cc: Harris Goodkind <tr_250@yahoo.com>; TR
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, January 21, 1999 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: Cross-country transport for a TR2 and parts
>
>Dan Scharpf wrote:
>>
>> After recently purchasing a 54 TR2, I subscribed to the list
in order to
>> absorb as much information as possible from the Triumph
faithful. The
>> car I bought was sitting in a woman's garage in Indiana for
the last 24
>> years and I need to find a way of transporting it out to
Seattle. Does
>> anyone on the list do this, or does anyone have any
recommendations on
>> who I should call to have this done? The quotes I've gotten
from Uhaul
>> and Ryder were around $1200-$1400, which is quite a bit more
than I'd
>> like to pay.
>>
>> I got the car rolling when I went to pack it up at Christmas,
and it has
>> a lot of extra parts with it:
>> 4 transmissions
>> 8 doors
>> 2 hoods
>> 6 front fenders
>> 1 extra spare tire cover panel
>> 1 extra seat
>> TR3 front apron
>> rear differntial
>> 3 sets of carbs and manifolds
>> an extra head
>> 9 side curtains
>> 2 radiators
>> 3 sets of bumpers
>> an extra steering wheel
>> an extra instrument panel with some gauges
>> and boxes of assorted brackets, bolts and misc parts
>>
>> Many of these will be for sale once I sort through them. If
you're
>> interested in any of these parts, please e-mail me and I'll
keep your
>> name handy when I get things sorted out. In the mean time, I'm
looking
>> for someone to haul this back to Seattle for me. So if you
know of
>> anyone that does this, please let me know.
>>
>> This will be my first "frame-off" restoration so I'm sure I'll
be
>> contacting the list many times over the next few years looking
for
>> advice. I've visited some of the TR3 home pages that have been
listed
>> here and they've already been a tremendous help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan Scharpf
>> 54 TR2 TS3590L
>> 77 MGB
>> dscharpf@hotmail.com
>> Seattle
>
>Dan, I hope he doesn't mind my dropping his name, but I was
considering
>the purchase of Harris Goodkind's TR3 a month or two ago. He's
in CA and
>I'm in Connecticut - about 3000 miles! The $950 shipping cost is
one of
>the reasons I didn't buy the car...even though it sounded
terrific!
>Harris says he's used these guys several times and has been more
than
>satisfied. His comment was...
>
>"...the car delivered to your door in the same shape it left
here for
>$950. Fully insured by a very competent transport company. You
can
>check them out at http://members.aol.com/ross4auto";
>
>If memory serves, they're based in the midwest (KC maybe?) and
travel
>coast to coast delivering vehicles along the way. Indiana to
Seattle
>should be considerably less than the coast-to-coast $950 I would
think.
>
>I've copied Harris in case he's not on the list these days.
Perhaps you
>two can get together. I have no first hand knowledge of this or
any
>other shipping firm (and certainly no financial interest) - just
Harris'
>recommendation. Anyway, good luck!
>--
>Michael Ferguson
>Vernon CT
>
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