Re: [doc] Re: Shipping a car from the States

[Darren Cunningham <darren.cunningham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

It is the car with suicide doors. The one I've bought is slightly 
customised - flat black paint, tinted windows, and a suspension drop.

It'll match my dad's 63 Continental convertible quite nicely :-)  - 
http://tinyurl.com/7bfny

Darren

Paul McKay wrote:

>Hi Darren,
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>  Is this lincoln the suicide door type? I seen a nice burgandy one on ebay recently, think it was in baltimore. Nice car.
>   
>  Paul
>  Vin: 6042
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>Phill Wright <psw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hiya,
>
>I used a company called Schumacher cargo (TA Global express lines), I 
>tried ringing TGAL but couldn't get a firm price out of them, plus 
>they were extremely expensive for moving my car across land to the 
>departure port (last quote I had they wanted $350 to take the car 25 
>miles to the port).
>
>Contact in the States for Schumacher is a guy called Andy Howden - he 
>is at their west coast office, so if you call him leave it till late 
>afternoon ( when I called it was 6.30am and he was in the office :-)  )
>Their contact number is 310 513 6655 I found then very helpful and 
>easy to deal with as well as a good price. The UK contact is Ian 
>(ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 01449 723576.
>Cars come (containered) into Thamesport but the containers are then 
>moved to Chatham where the cars are removed to the agents yard - its a 
>lot easier (well it was for me) to get to Chatham than right out to 
>Thamesport itself as well. They cleared customs in 2 days as well. 
>
>Cheers
>
>PhillW
>DOC 233
>VIN6772(sorbet)
>Avantime(M4TRA)
>SERA (16075, phase III)
>
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><darren.cunningham@xxxx> wrote:
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>>Hi everyone, 
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>>Can anyone give me a recommendation of a good car shipper based in 
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>>US? I've just bought a 65 Lincoln which is near Seattle and need to
>>get it shipped over to Thamesport.
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>>Thanks
>>Darren
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