It is coming up on a year since I posted and drove my vette. We already have plane tickets purchased for our return in August only to have my first plans to drive my car! FYI- (rising gas prices+round trip international flights x 5 people) = sucks the life out of me.

I moved to Korea nearly a year ago and I was aroused on how many americans had their corvettes here. Most of them were delievered at the governments moving allowance, but I was curious has anyone paid out-of-pocket to move their vette (specifically to the East Asia area from the East Coast)?

I would love to start pricing, but I don't know where to begin. I hope to find someone with experience in shipping corvettes overseas and to see their personal experience with the handle of the car and maybe what to expect. I would obviously hate to know that vette sank in the pacific on the way here.

Thanks in advanced.

 

I always had Uncle Sam ship my cars back and forth from Germany.

The only problem I had in a move happened here in the states, were my car returning from germany was trailered from SC to California. If I knew the car was going to be trailered like that I would had driven it myself. They had the car so tight on the trailer that it ripped all the tie down points off the frame.

 

Member Deegee shipped his from Vegas to England and could probably help point you in the right direction.
Contact him as he is a wealth of information.

 

Thanks I will!

 

I've shipped 3 cars over the years. I moved my Camaro from Texas to England and more recently my Vert and my son's Camaro from Vegas to England. Although its not the Far East I guess the principles are the same.

You need to find a shipper and prices vary considerably so check around. For my latest move I used Rinkens in LA and they were excellent.

Costs are dependent on which coast you ship from. I guess to the Far East it would be cheaper from the West Coast. In my case it was cheaper the farther East you shipped from. You also need to decide whether you want to put it in a container or ship "open deck". With only one car the relative costs are higher; in other words the container costs the same whether there's one or two cars in there. As a guide, I had two cars in a 40 ft container for $1900. Those prices will have gone up with the price of oil.

In broad terms:

Cost of the container (does it include the transport from your house to the port?)
Marine Insurance (2% of value)
Agents fees on arrival ($1000 for 2 cars) but dependent on Country of arrival.

I had two plans. From TX, I self loaded at the house and unloaded locally in the local area here in UK. From Vegas, the shipper collected the cars, flatbed to LA, container to London and I collected them at the port.

There are some different rules for military vs civilian. The journey is quite long. West Coast to UK was 8 weeks in transit.

HTH

 

DeeGee, Thanks a lot for the info. Very helpful.

 

You could try Eike at Rinkens and he'd give you a quote. Good guy and very effecient. PM me if you'd like his e mail