30-11-2017, 09:57 PM
(30-11-2017, 06:12 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: Tom Abernethy air freighted his early Cup Model from the USA directly to Scotland.I used CFR Rankins to bring my 3 sevens back from American slumber. They use a multi vehicle loading system They were very good with lots of photos pre & loading, Not the cheapest, but all mine survived. Good staff in the Offices.
I will see if I can alert him to this thread,
The weak link every time is the handling once a car has been de-vanned. (taken out of the container) The dock staff are pretty ruthless & will use fork lifts to shift cars that won't roll (flat tyres for example). I know of a Healey 3000 that was driven into a container in the USA, pushed out at the UK Port & then picked up....It broke it's back & was held together by the prop-shaft & not much else. £25000 of parts! Mind you the chassis must have been rotten as a pear, but the body looked lovely!!!
Apparently bought unseen/uninspected....caveat emptor in spades.
No experience of air freight (except on Rallies, where we did our own driving on & off (100 cars in an Antonov !!)