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need a trailer for next weekend...bought a 'new' car


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Well, if you remember...my '66 GTO was stolen 3 weeks ago

 

 

About 3 hours ago, i got stupid and spent the insurance money on a basketcase '64 GTO that's in northern Michigan

 

i didn't get the insurance value out of my last '66, so i had to downgrade a little

but this is arguably a neater car

#'s matching 1964 GTO convertible tripower, this time

(they don't get much rarer than that)

 

 

anyways, this one is in about 13,000 individual pieces...and i need to find a trailer

 

 

anyone feel like helping?

I'd prefer an enclosed trailer, but i'll take what i can get

 

any other ideas as to how to get that car from michigan to Ohio?

 

my dad's '07 F150 is a 6 cylinder and we don't have the trailer hitch installed yet

So, i need to find a truck/trailer combo

 

 

I was thinking about trying to find a trailer to rent/borrow and just rent a v8 truck from some rental joint

 

 

here's a teaser of how much trouble i just got myself into...

 

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~mertzgea/gto1.jpg

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~mertzgea/gto2.jpg

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~mertzgea/gto3.jpg

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~mertzgea/gto4.jpg

http://homepages.udayton.edu/~mertzgea/gto5.jpg

 

 

...it'd good to have a project again

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i'd be perfectly happy renting from u-haul

 

did i hear they don't put hitches on the trucks for the express reason of not wanting people to tow stuff?

 

 

about 4 years ago, my old roommate used a u-haul with a trailer to tow his car to seattle, and the u-haul truck had a hitch, and it was a specific u-haul trailer. maybe they've changed things, as that was 4 years ago.

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An original Tri-power, numbers matching, 'vert? Yeah, you did good :)

 

 

I'm still crossing my fingers that it all works out

 

Might end up with a rarer/more valuable car than i had

 

 

the first muscle car

 

 

 

it also has a load of options: power brakes, power windows, power steering, tilt wheel, bucket seats, posi rear, tripower and a dozen little things like lamps and seatbelts

 

 

I'm calling u-haul early tuesday and hoping they can help out

 

 

northern damned michigan

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u-haul wants .39 cents a mile

(20$ a day for the truck and $50 for the trailer)

 

a little pricey on a 900 mile trip

they initially quoted me .59 cents a mile...until i started bitching that 900 miles would be insane

maybe they'll do down a bit more

 

this could easily be an $800 or $900 trip with gas

 

i can't find/don't see any other rent-a-car joints that have regular pickups

 

anyone else have thoughts or opinions?

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parts in labeled bags will make your life so much easier

 

 

definitely

 

i've put together 3 '66/67 GTO's

almost in this shape

 

so, I don't expect that it'll be a problem....

but maybe i won't end up with 3 buckets of 'spare parts' after reassembling this one

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gas would double

and i'd have the headache of finding how to get the car 3 or 4 feet off the ground

 

 

current plan is to rent a cheap $20/day car and drive up there...pick up truck/tailer, drop off car and drive home

 

drops it down to around $500 i'd imagine

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you mean do a 1way truck/trailer? It may save gas money but I know that "in-town" or local return was always a shitload cheaper than a 1 way rental when I've used uhaul.

 

I rented a flat trailer from uhaul and picked up a car in detroit. I was there and back in one day, cost from uhaul was $39.99 plus tax, I think $43.xx. Whereas when I priced out driving up there, renting the uhaul, and towing it back, the rental was like $100 more.

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the trailer rental is cheap: 50.00 day

 

the expensive part is the truck, .40-.60 cents a mile

 

420 miles there, 420 back

is why i'm thinking 1-way rentals - to keep the truck price down

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how much is the cost difference between the local return and 1 way on the truck? Just curious, 420 miles is most likely a tank of gas on their trucks, I know my silverado is thereabouts.
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