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Re: Moving cars 400 miles - trailer one/tow one (but which one)

To: kpdii@mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Moving cars 400 miles - trailer one/tow one (but which one)
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:58:56 -0800 (PST)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net, virtualvairs@corvair.hostway.com
In-reply-to: <199901230028.QAA03286@www1.xoommail.com>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Patton,
Is the trailer narrow enough for the Sprite?
Are there big hills on the way?  If not, the 850 should have no problems
with the Corvair.
If your wheel bearings are ok on the Sprite, it should be a fine roller as
well, you can disconnect the drive shaft for piece of mind.

Ulix


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 kpdii@mindspring.com wrote:

> OK Folks, 
> 
> The promotion I have been working my A$$ off for over the 
> past 8 months came through today!!!  I'm moving back home 
> to Mississippi, March 1.
> 
> The problem is I have a half assembled Sprite (plus an 
> extra shell) and a Corvair that I don't have time to get in 
> shape to make the 400 mile trip on there own power.   
> Unfortunatlly, the company will not pay to move the cars 
> (but that is the only thing they won't move, they are 
> packing and unpacking on this one).  Last time they loaded 
> the Sprite right in the moving van, but they have distance 
> reulations, and this move just isn't far enough.
> 
> I got the use of a truck and trailer for one weekend, so my 
> options seem to be to put one car on the trailer, the other 
> behind my wife's Volvo 850 with a tow dolly, the question 
> is which car.  The Corvair has been a daily driver untill 
> two months ago, so I know that as a roller it would be 
> fine.  But the Sprite weighs much less and might be a much 
> reduced strain on the Volvo.  
> 
> What do you guys think,  
> 
> Patton 
> (wishing he owned a truck, or can convince the mover that 
> the sprite was an end table)
> 
> 
> Patton Dickson - Dallas, TX - 
> http://members.xoom.com/spridget/
> 67 AH Sprite
> 65 Corvair 110/4sp Monza Ver
> 
> Patton Dickson - Dallas, TX - 
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> 67 AH Sprite
> 65 Corvair 110/4sp Monza Vert
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    Ulix                                       __/__,__      ___/__|\__  
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                                              '67 Sprite     '74 X1/9


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