I have to move a '63 1800 from FL to OH. I'd like to this is in the best fashion without breaking the bank.

I can't make the trip myself.

Any ideas are appreciated. Any comments on DAS?

Kirk

Used DAS to ship a 144 from PA to FLA. Did what they said they would in the time agreed to for the price negotiated. Ran about $700.

If you can't find someone to drive it or ship it back on a deadhead, I'd recommend DAS. They shipped my 1800 from MO to VA two years ago. Excellent service. I had lots of trouble with the PO, and they were very patient throughout the ordeal.

Rolfe--'71E

Last year I almost shipped a volvo from florida to albany NY. A transport guy I know told me to talk to a local car dealership and try to get a line on a transport "deadheading" back north after making a deliery to florida from detroit. Trains do most of this work so maybe talk to a rail broker too, they aren't going to make much $ so you will have to make it fun/interesting for them, maybe a spin in the car or some way of sweetening the deal.

I had a car transported a few years ago... Article about it, including a link the the broker I used.

Phil,
What is the status of Vclassics.com? I understand if you have more pressing issues but some of us live our lives for the web site. Do you need more contributors? Can we help in any way? Again, I understand if there are more pressing issues than publishing a site about 40 year old cars. What can we do to help?
Joel

Joel, thanks for your concern, and my apologies for having "back burnered" VClassics this past year. Actually, I didn't do very well keeping it up the previous year either...

I've been fully busy, and I mean fully, since last March working on Volvo projects: the Amazon resto, the MPPE, and, although it took much less time, bringing the flame 245 out from the east coast, as well as occasionally helping out friends with their projects. And for the past few months, we've been buying and developing a piece of property 200 miles from where we now live, hoping to move there in June.

David, Mark, Lee, Brooks, and our other regular contributors have all been similarly tied up. Maybe being busy is infectious, I dunno.

I'll try to have a new issue going before we move, but I'll just have to see how it goes. Meanwhile, just so I don't get out of touch completely, I've been writing a series of articles for Rolling, and I'm visiting the Brickboard again after an absence of several years.

VClassics will be back, absolutely -- I have a backlog of good material to edit (although more is always welcome), an incredible amount of stuff to write up myself -- it's just a matter of when. Meanwhile, the classifieds are updated regularly, and the events page less regularly. I continue to respond to 95% of the e-mail I get as well.

Thanks for your patience,

--Phil

Phil,

I too miss the updated articles on VClassics. I still use the archives of old articles for a great reference source as well as the 1800list on Yahoo. 1800list gets a little amazing with personalities from time but is generaly very good. Being new to 1800's I can use all the help I can get. Last and only Volvo I had was a 164E in 1978 for college. Always wanted and 1800 and finally got to the point a few years ago where I bought one. Thank for all the good info on VClassics. Good luck on your move.

Greg Bodner
1970 1800E

Maybe you could buy the new custodian a bus ticket south...
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George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Why don't you just sell it to me (Tampa) and avoid the whole problem?

Kirk;

How about making a deal with a trucker who would otherwise be making the trip empty/unloaded...of course you need someone on the Fla end, whom you trust to get the car up onto/into the truck/flatbed, and insurance too, but if you hook up with the right independent, I'm sure he would rather make a few hundred bucks than to make the trip empty...

Best thing of course, is to drive it, if at all possible...after all, it's just a weekend trip....ask Irv!

Good Luck