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ThreeSpore
02-13-2021, 02:35 AM
Hi all, I am starting to arrange getting me car over to CA from TX for painting. Will tow it back myself, but tossing up the idea to outsource the shipping over to save on time and effort. Any advice on some decent brokers/shipping companies to use?
thanks
Michael
frankb
02-13-2021, 08:49 AM
Michael:
Several (OK...12) years ago we used Reliable Transport to ship my wife's Corvette from Ohio to Tucson in winter. They did a great job and delivered into our new garage. I see their transport carriers at Barrett-Jackson, Scottsdale every year, so others must like them also!
silver_pilate
02-13-2021, 10:07 AM
My wife and I did the opposite and trailered the car out to Temecula from Lubbock, TX in an enclosed trailer. It was an awesome road trip. We did the palms to pines pull with the F250 and trailer to finish it off...amazing drive, though you need to be comfortable pulling on narrow and steep roads and have your car well secured. We stayed at the Pechanga which is literally right down the road from Miller who did our paint. On the way back, we spent a few nights in Scottsdale at the Phoenecian.
https://i.imgur.com/GOIlvMc.jpg
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https://i.imgur.com/P7CclKj.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/V99ZNyP.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MpbAhSg.jpg
We had it shipped back, and Miller recommended Reliable. They did a great job getting it back.
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seagull81
02-13-2021, 11:10 AM
Michael you have a PM.
legend42
02-13-2021, 11:19 AM
My wife and I trailered our roadster from Dallas to Temecula in my 2002 F250. We dropped the car off at Miller's, then dropped the trailer off at storage(there are storage lots around Temecula). Drove my truck into San Diego and stored it by airport (spare truck that I did not need for a while), flew home. Flew back to SD when the car was ready, picked up truck, trailer, and roadster and drove home. Worked out well if you don't mind some short term storage rent.
Lickity-Split
02-15-2021, 07:31 PM
Reliable and Intercity are 2 of the top quality car haulers. Mecum does it now also, but you have to catch them between auctions.
Most of the others are brokers who take your money and then give the job to ... yeh, I don't know either.
j.miller
02-15-2021, 08:56 PM
Reliable has never let me down... Da Bat
Kmcallahan
02-16-2021, 10:36 AM
Hi all, I am starting to arrange getting me car over to CA from TX for painting. Will tow it back myself, but tossing up the idea to outsource the shipping over to save on time and effort. Any advice on some decent brokers/shipping companies to use?
thanks
Michael
Michael,
Why not drive it there and when done drive it back?
ThreeSpore
02-16-2021, 02:27 PM
Michael,
Why not drive it there and when done drive it back?
to be honest, I can't take that amount of time off work to drive it there, and drive back, and then do the same to pick it up. We are possibly thinking of picking it up and trailering it back to do a family roadtrip, but I have to convince more than me to make that happen (and god help me if I burn my vacation days on this vs. what the wife wants :D)
Kmcallahan
02-16-2021, 07:02 PM
I talking a about drive it there for Saturday drop off if Miller is good with that. Fly home then when ready fly back to a CA pick up car and drive back. The cost may be added to job for Miller to disassemble and reassemble. Then I do not know if Miller would do all that. Everything has a price. When it is time to paint mine that is what I am contemplating pend who is available and if the painter will work with that plan.