Transporting your Vette - Need some help
08-10-2005, 01:20 PM
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St. Jude Donor '11, '16-'17
I went the U-Haul route as well. The ramps were too steep to get the car on the trailer without bottoming out, but we just pulled up to a sloped driveway and the car went on fine. Did the same thing when the car came off. It's been a few years but I think I paid $40 for the rental. If you have to rent a truck from them as well, the one way rental fee will exceed the cost of having the car shipped. It might be cheaper to rent a pickup from Enterprise. While just driving the car is an option, it's kind of scary to make a 20 hour drive in a car this old that you're not intimately familiar with.
08-10-2005, 03:11 PM
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If you trailer it be sure to tie it down securely both front and back (you don't want it coming off the trailer in either direction!).
My boss had a large 4-wheeler roll off a trailer on the highway, all he saw was it summersaulting down the freeway in his rear-view mirror, what a mess!
My boss had a large 4-wheeler roll off a trailer on the highway, all he saw was it summersaulting down the freeway in his rear-view mirror, what a mess!
08-18-2005, 08:41 PM
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I must live dangerously...butt, my wife and I flew to Washington, DC and drove our vette (a 71 vert) home to Georgia (as far south and west as you can get in Ga. and not be in Fla or Ala.). I did have it inspected by a mechanic in DC beforehand. The trip will always be a great 'adventure' to both of us...just be judicious in checking out the car beforehand...then, go the adventure route...