Auto Transport

[Mr. T]

Awesome Sam! Lets see some more pics of that baby! How does she run?

[Belair62]

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I drive past one of the terminals or lots in Pineville, NC that DAS uses to transfer cars. It appears to belong to a local towing company

[/ QUOTE ] Yep this is what they do...they absolutely suck the big one....the car will show up on a tow truck or flatbed if you are lucky...did I mention they suck ?

[J_D]

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Kim
I notice Dennis Cumby has been incredibly silent throughout this thread..you don't suppose...nah,he couldn't be involved.




could he?

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Hey, I tried to tell him on July 8th!!
"Don't get your panties in a a wad; I'm gettin' there as quick as I can. The damned thing doesn't have any tags on it so I'm using all the country, gravel and dirt roads I can find to get to I-O-A!
If you lived in a REAL state I would have been there already!
(BTW, she developed a little front end vibration comin' thru Vegas but I pulled into a bicycle shop and they cut a few broken spokes out of the wheels. She's better now. "

I'm in I O A now but it's so damned hot she keeps spewing coolant all over the windshield. Then the dust from these gravel roads gets on the moisture...... this damned thing must weigh about 12,000 pounds by now!
Spent the nite at JD's shop in Ankeny and we'll be leavin' Altoona in a bit. (Cleaned out about twelve days worth of soda cups and sandwich wrappers, etc. Flies were gettin' REAL bad!) Have a waitin' for me; I'm on my way!

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Okay........since D.C. opened his big mouth........again...

#1 - It does have tags..........just not current I-O-W-A tags





#2 - So we did get it a little dusty driving it around Polk County on the back roads but if you spend a good couple of hours with soap and water, it should clean right up.

My Deputy Sheriff buddies had fun chasing us around. Now they know how their Crown Vic Police Interceptors perform on gravel, dirt, blacktop, seal coat, concrete, corn fields, bean fields, pastures, back yards, parking lots, etc.













As everyone will notice, Annie Hartwegs dog was successful in getting all the corn stalks pulled out of the front end of the car. Seems pretty solid and I honestly don't think we damaged any suspension components when we jumped it over that drainage ditch.



And rest easy Kim, I DID MAKE Cumby clean all the candy bar wrappers and beer cans out of it before I took the pictures. Besides, I needed the 5 cent pop can deposits to help finance my trip to SCR8 this year. Cumby sure can put away a lot of beer for no bigger than he is.





Unforunately, Dennis couldn't keep his foot out of the firewall and I think ya might have a little bit of an oil leak now as evidenced by the oil on the car and also on the shop floor. Dennis said if it was really serious he might be able to come up with an original LS6 454 c.i.d. engine for you out of a junker he has at his home.







Sorry some of the pictures are a little dark but we didn't want to turn on the lights in the shop in case some of my Deputy buddies didn't understand that this was all just good clean fun ! ! ! !

All-in-all Kim, Dennis and I had a good time and we're really hoping that we can all still be friends.

[Belair62]

Looks like you didn't have much luck with the urine stains on the carpet.

[SamLBInj]

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Awesome Sam! Lets see some more pics of that baby! How does she run?

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Runs incredible Super clean, 13,800 miles..just got a few minor things to do on it, missing the ashtray, seatbelt mechanism covers a little scratched, rearview mirror a little crusty, other than that pretty darn nice, ill really give it the once over this week when I polish her up...Came with a full tank of gas and thats saying something these days . When its gets low Ill drop it and see if I can find the build sheet... Also came with a book with past titles and registrations, looks like she has been sitting in a couple of collections over the years, underside is super clean..

[SamLBInj]

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Looks like you didn't have much luck with the urine stains on the carpet.

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I got a good picture of the guy joy riding and staining those carpets

[SS427]

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Dennis said if it was really serious he might be able to come up with an original LS6 454 c.i.d. engine for you out of a junker he has at his home.

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I would think twice about accepting that offer. Afterall, the thing couldn't even keep up with a small block......

[Kim_Howie]

It has 302 FORD it now. Today is 35 days and I still don't have it!!!

[JChlupsa]

Thats just plain WRONG. I would start making some serious phone calls and not to the transport company either!!!

[Mr. T]

How unprofessional can a car transportation company get? Well, we have just seen it. 35 days is just uncalled for. It took 6 days to transport my 69 Z from Mississippi to Washington state.
If I were you Kim, start dialing that phone and get in touch with the police. Maybe Greg (fuzzbuster) can share some information with you, since he is employed by the law enforcement.