[Shotimes] [OT] Car shipping suggestions

Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:36:30 -0400

To late Don, The ss has removed the SS from the window and not that building
in Huntington Beach says EVOSPORT

Kirk J Doucette
NESHOC President
Stormtrooper-97 White

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:27 AM
To: kerbyh@netzero.net
Cc: V8SHO@V8SHO.COM; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] [OT] Car shipping suggestions

I understand about not going up to 80.  I was just hoping to
have the Texas bunch along in a caravan for once!

Maybe we can hook up for the trip back?  I wanted to see the
SHO Shop before it became the BMW shop!

Also, although it will probably be slow going, I wanted to
do route 1 between SF and LA.

Don Mallinson

kerbyh@netzero.net wrote:
> As you well know, I was kidding.  But I will be driving.
>
> I will get you the details sometime in November.  Can't start planning too
early.  Coming up to I-80 from here will add several hundred miles to the
trip and make it a definite 3 day journey.  That is not a good option for
me, or several other people.  It is a long 2 days from here, but doable.
Adding any more miles kills that.
>
> Kerby
>
> -- Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net> wrote:
> Kerby,
>
> Some of us aren't wimps, but just can't figure out how to
> drive two cars at once!  :)
>
> Jan and I enjoy travelling together so much we don't want to
> drive two cars that long of a distance.  Wisconsin was a
> four hour trip, so that wasn't so bad with FRS and CB to
> keep us "connected".
>
> So I want to ship my '89 out for use on Thunderhill and
> drive the '96 out and back,since it is such a wonderful
> highway car.
>
> We never ever considered flying, but some people will,
> because they just can't take that much time off.
>
> BTW, will your caravan take 66 all the way to LA then back
> up 1 to SF?  Jan and I were going to go that route, but we
> decided to do a Northern caravan and then come back via
> Route 66.
>
> Be sure to get your caravan instructions to me ASAP if you
> have them ready, so we can post them on the web site.  My
> son Ken usually organizes and posts this info with a map for
> others to use to plan their trip.
>
> One thought was for the Southern group to come up to I-80 so
> we could have a HUGE caravan entering the hotel.  Consider
> that.  I was part of a 150 car caravan one year going to the
> Impala nationals.  No possibility of going fast, but it was
> more fun than you can imagine having cars you love as far as
> the eye could see, with everyone being able to relax and
> enjoy the trip.
>
>
>
> Don Mallinson
>
> kerbyh@netzero.net wrote:
>
>>All I have to say is:
>>
>>You're all wimps!  :-)
>>
>>Kerby "Southern Caravan Master" Haltom
>>
>>-- Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net> wrote:
>>I talked to about three companies, and they all quoted near
>>$2000 PER CAR!  We did some quick math, and with the fuel,
>>and about a week and a half (four days of dead time for the
>>driver, tough to find something to do for half a week!) and
>>permits needed for CA if the truck originates somewhere
>>else, even if you owned the truck, and drove for free, it
>>would be tough to do for 3-400 per car.
>>
>>My son is a pro driver, so he is looking into renting a rig
>>and taking a vacation and driving it out for us.
>>
>>If you can find somebody that will do it for 300 to 600 per
>>car, that would be great.  We already have 6 or 7 cars that
>>can be picked up at one spot in Illinois and dropped off at
>>one spot.  Ben Bentley's place (he still has to get
>>permission from his boss to park the cars for a couple of
>>days on their lot) but that should reduce the cost.  Figure
>>from Mendota, IL (or LaSalle, nearest bigger town) for
>>miles.  Let me know.
>>
>>Don Mallinson
>>
>>George Fourchy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:06:40 -0500, Donald Mallinson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am still trying to find a company to move 8 or more cars
>>>
>>>>from the midwest to the CA convention.  I THink Kirk and
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>others are trying the same thing for the east coast.
>>>
>>>
>>>Fred Herder Jr. mentioned at the banquet in Madison that there ought to
be truckers
>>>who would load their car carriers up and charge for the whole load,
divided by the
>>>number of cars on the truck.  The total amount was something like $3K one
way, which
>>>would be about 3 or 4 hundred apiece, which is pretty close to the cost
of driving
>>>across country one way.
>>>
>>>I was going to investigate this possibility, and still will, but the
home-front
>>>alligators are still occasionally pretty fierce.  I'm working on them,
and on the
>>>convention.
>>>
>>>I can (and have been meaning to) call the folks that shipped my car to
Mark Nunnally
>>>and ask them about bulk shipping possibilities.  They are very friendly.
>>>
>>>George
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