Delivery Day

[Buzzsaw]

Wow the wait is over, my kit delivered today (this morning). It was an unusual delivery since Mark the Stewart drive could not get his truck into my neighbor hood much less get back out. So he parked on the street that leads to my neighborhood.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=191909&d=1699231320

My friends and I meet him at the entrance and this is 1 st look at the kit!

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=191908&d=1699231320

We had to push the dolly about 400 yards to my house, the little cart rolled easily after I brought my compressor down and we aired up the wheels.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=191910&d=1699231320

We unloaded the dolly cart and loaded 32 boxes of part onto 2 pickup trucks. Unloaded onto my bodybuck/parts storage dolly.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=191911&d=1699231320

I was so excited to start the inventory I forgot to take a picture of my excited mug and a picture of the roadster and parts loaded into the garage until it was dark.

https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=191929&d=1699233202

This is my first time trying to load pictures so I apologize if this is a failure,

[Stangarang]

Congratulations Ross. I can't wit until my Coupe comes. Good luck with your build.
Michael

[scrubs]

Delivery day....exciting. good luck with the build.

[cv2065]

Congrats Ross! I think we may have been on the same truck. Mine should be delivering tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest.

[robmccon]

Congratulations Ross, exciting day!

[Blitzboy54]

Just the best day. Congratulations and good luck!

[nashuanuke]

nice, I had a similar thing, but used a boat trailer to get it up to the house. GL and have fun!
191937

[Theshandman]

Congratulations Ross! You're in for a fabulous experience.

Yep. Your delivery looks very familiar. :)
Stewart couldn't get near my house much less through the entry gates so I enlisted a few buds with pickups and a trailer to carry the freight up my stupid steep driveway. That was Dec 15, 2021. I can't believe its been almost two years. Only thing left now is my body and paint guy, Mike Bowen and his Snake Pit (https://www.facebook.com/spotlightcustomcars/). Mike just finished Alec Davidson's beautiful Mk4. https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/showthread.php?47476-Graduation. In pic 5 of 5 of Alec's post, (10/18) that's my cobra's body on a buck in the background; Mike was just getting started on the body work. Only a few more days now...


Art

[cv2065]

Just got mine dropped off. Mark from Stewart said to say Hi!

[gbranham]

Congrats! I had my 2nd delivered on July 11th of this year. Always an exciting day! Enjoy, and savor the build!!!

[Buzzsaw]

Thank you for all the congratulations and encouragement!,, Forum members are the bets kinda people!!!

[AC Bill]

Like having an early Christmas when your build arrives. :)
Some of the best fun was doing the inventory, opening, and discovering, what was in the multitude of boxes. I loved that part.

[scrubs]

Enjoy the ride. Use the forum...extensively

[PMD24]

Question on the Stewart dolly. The driveway from the road to my shop is roughly 100ft and is stone. Some of it is pretty smooth but other areas a rough because the stone is really coarse, like shown in this photo link.

https://www.zimmermanmulch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/crushed-stone-3-creates-a-strong-foundation-and-ensures-proper-drainage-1536x1024.jpg

Also, in the areas where the coarse stone is it gets a little bumpy (not flat). So my question is, will the Stewart dolly handle this terrain or do we risk having the frame shimmy off the dolly?

For the boxes I'm not concerned because I have a tractor with forks and could load pallets wit the boxes. Or even shift them to my utility trailer and shuttle them that way.

Has anyone ever moved the frame and body with a fork lift? If yes how long do the forks need to be and what's the weight? I can look up the lifting capacity of my loader but I'm sure it could carry this with no trouble. I would have to pick up fork extensions though.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Nigel Allen]

I have picked up my chassis/ body combined, with 1.8 metre fork extensions.
Have also picked up the completed car to place it on jack stands using same fork extensions and 2.5 tonne forklift.

Cheers,

Nigel

[gbranham]

Question on the Stewart dolly. The driveway from the road to my shop is roughly 100ft and is stone. Some of it is pretty smooth but other areas a rough because the stone is really coarse, like shown in this photo link.

https://www.zimmermanmulch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/crushed-stone-3-creates-a-strong-foundation-and-ensures-proper-drainage-1536x1024.jpg

Also, in the areas where the coarse stone is it gets a little bumpy (not flat). So my question is, will the Stewart dolly handle this terrain or do we risk having the frame shimmy off the dolly?

For the boxes I'm not concerned because I have a tractor with forks and could load pallets wit the boxes. Or even shift them to my utility trailer and shuttle them that way.

Has anyone ever moved the frame and body with a fork lift? If yes how long do the forks need to be and what's the weight? I can look up the lifting capacity of my loader but I'm sure it could carry this with no trouble. I would have to pick up fork extensions though.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Dolly should handle it, and you could always strap the frame to the dolly with a couple of ratchet straps to hold it in place.