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Hi peeps, Can anyone offer or suggest someone who can transport my new purchase from SS0 7HL to CB8 8EX (approx 75 miles)? This is the car in question:   It is minus all powertrain so prob weighs barely 500kg. Best offer I have so far is £100.........can anyone better that? Cheers in advance, Matt |
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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Thats an 'interesting' 2002 Touring you have there! What's the story behind it?
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Last Edit: Feb 8, 2010 12:55:30 GMT by trigger
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It originally belonged to a guy called Dennis Crompton, who raced it in a North West -based clubmans championship back in the 1990s. Back then it had a touring car spec' engine (200+ bhp) and a six-speed sequential box. I think he was responsible for the bespoke moulds for the front end and wings, too.
I've recently scrapped my '02 (after salvaging all I could from it) and so am buying this off its current owner to get it back on the road (and track), rather than it languishing on a driveway in essex!
Matt
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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hire a luton van / dropside transit and get it yourself??
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Good luck with that! Can you make it road legal or is it purely for track use?.
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100 quid is bloody good, thats minimum charge for everyone i know.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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Good luck with that! Can you make it road legal or is it purely for track use?. It will hopefully be road legal one day (have reg and VIN), but will initially be on track/sprint/hillclimb - see previous post under "ban" lol - I have to get my driving fix somehow ;D |
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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Be careful wih Shiply. In the link you posted, one of th low bidders wil take 5 days to get your car to you, shunting it on and off trailers to wait in industrial estates and sometimes service stations for a truck going your way. To be fair to them, they don't tell you otherwise and if all you're interested in is how cheaply they can get it to you, they'll do you a job. The other one will as likely as not ignore you when you try to arrange collection.
On Shiply, £114 bid, gets the transporter £100 after their fees.
Most transprters won't start the truck for less than £75. Small jobs like yours are proportionately more expensive.
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Thanks cecotto, I guess that makes sense. I've asked some of the bidders whether it'll be done in a one-er so to speak, so hopefully avoid disappointment etc.  |
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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jamesp
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£100 is a good price mate id snap that up
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£100 is a good price. Have a word with Autoshift, based in Stevenage. I use him all the time, and hes very reasonable.
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stick with £100 thats cheap
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Cheers for input fellas - I've excepted the bid after some discussion with the transporter and initial impressions suggest they are helpful and will be moving it in a one-er Matt |
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"Mechanical Power Subduing Animal Speed" (Robert Trevithick, 1808)
'72 BMW 2000 Touring
'99 TT 180 (mrs)
'72 BMW 2500
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I thought the average was £1 a mile, so £75 would be the most to pay for such a short journey.
If it wasn't a 458mile round trip for me i could have done it for much less than that.
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Feb 10, 2010 15:46:59 GMT
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But would you have been legal, with goods in transit insurance and driving to driver's hours regs on a safe, legal, tacho equipped vehicle?
You'll do very, very well to get anybody to do a 75 mile journey for £75. What about a four mile journey? Should that be £4? £1 per mile is a good guesstimate between 100 miles and about 300 or so, but it's not economically feasibe to do small jobs for £1 per mile, particularly as more often than not, you are running empty one way.
£75+ £0.90 per mile is our "Quoted" rate, so £75 + 75x0.9 = £142.50. I'd probably knock it down to £125. So £100 is good value.
Remember that there's rent, rates, light and heat, insurance (any idea how expensive that is?), capital costs, wear and tear, fuel, depreciation, wages, profit and tax all to be paid. A 75 mile job will in all probability take three hours by the time you get there, get loaded, drive the 75 miles and get unloaded.
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Feb 10, 2010 18:19:38 GMT
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But would you have been legal, with goods in transit insurance and driving to driver's hours regs on a safe, legal, tacho equipped vehicle? Yes fully legal, as confirmed by a very helful chap at VOSA Isn't my main line of business but a secondry income source using equiptment i have anyway. So overheads aren't as high for me. |
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