Need haul Flint to Charlotte or Georgia

[MrEarl]

Need "a cheap haul" (a phrase I learned from Truly Vintage) for 54 Buick Century parts car from Flint to anywhere within a 100 mile radius of Athens GA (60 miles east of Atlanta). Or possibly someone coming to BCA Nationals in Charlotte in June, I could pay gas one way.<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

[60FlatTop]

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I bought my convertible in Racine Wi., not running on Thursday and it was in my garage at 10 AM Saturday morning, $650 if I remember right.

Bernie

[MrEarl]

Thanks Bernie, it's a parts car, a rough one at that and I doubt if they or any other professional hauler can get cheap enough for me and I fully appreciate that. I expect the only way I will find someone to haul a rolling parts car is that it will be fellow forum member that just might happen to be coming this way or to Charlotte and wants to do a favor or could use help with gas etc. I am actually still checking the car out as to if it is even worth dragging out of the barn muck it is in but need to also know what my cost options are for shipping before making an offer. Plus some professional haulers don't even want to talk to you unless you already own the car. So that's where I'm at, if it don't come together so be it, won't be first time and probably not the last.

Thanks again for the info, I'll file it for when I win the lottery and buy my Century convertible, estate wagon and Landau.

Edited January 27, 2012 by MrEarl (see edit history)

[MrEarl]

Anybody? It is rougher even than I originally thought but it is a 3-speed Century meaning it has a 322 with the 6 bolt tranny. THAT'S why I am interested enough to even consider the hassle of getting it here.

Let's try look at skinning the cat this way then. Does anybody need anything hauled from down south to anywhere near Flint.

[michaelod]

I have shipped a number of pallets and cars with Uship. Set your own price and see if you get any responses. You can be pleasantly surprised from time to time. If you have not used this method before it is similar to an eBay auction with the exception you are looking for the lowest bid rather than the highest.

[smithbrother]

That's true, one never knows if you DON'T ask/try.

Just this weekend I sent a note to a Ebay seller, they wanted starting bid of $50.00, I offered $25.00, and they closed the auction and I bought it. It was a 1936 Buick grill emblem, I remove the enamel, and chrome and make art pieces out of them. The Buick script is solid copper, so cleans up real nice.

I wish you well, I agree the 322 and standard shift tranny are a good find.

Dale in Indy

[Ben Bruce aka First Born]

Go up there in a pu, pull the engine and tranny , call a roll off tow truck , haul the rest to the crusher. Might work out cost wise.

Ben

[BUICK RACER]

We have the technology to do that here, as well as get $260/T! But it may be more salvagable than it looks!

[MrEarl]

We have the technology to do that here, as well as get $260/T! But it may be more salvagable than it looks!

Ben, if I go up there she's comin home with me, all of her, in ever how many pieces she's in after winching her out of the muck in the barn. It's almost 900 miles one way, looking at about $650 round trip and that's with staying at Vasilow Inn at greatly reduced rates. It's tough to find anyone, a hauler or a good friend, willing to air up tires and pull a car out of a barn and if it needs inflatable rubber put on you can forget it. So that plus the $500 asking price (I haven't finished laying the southern charm on the lady yet though) just makes it a not so wise purchase.

I'd love to make a road trip to get it. If gas prices were as they were 5 years ago it would already be grazing in my pasture with all the rest of the derelicts that were retrieved when gas prices weren't so stupid.

I'll post on Uship, you never know if maybe there's someone fixin to head south empty. thanks y'all, not givin up yet

Edited January 31, 2012 by MrEarl (see edit history)

[Ben Bruce aka First Born]

Been sitting there a day or two!!!

You should at least break even. And think of the experience of a Southern Good Ol Boy making a trip up north in the winter. PRICELESS!!

Ben

[g-g-g0]

You can sure find some tough ones to recover! The one in DC and now maybe this one! Check with Lanier in Clermont, GA (770 314 1982). He hauled my Caddy up here from Atlanta. I actually found him on U-Ship but negotiated a deal with him seperately as he had to pay a fee to go through U-Ship.