Date:         Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:04:43 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Cain <jcain@MINDSPRING.COM>
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From:         Jim Cain <jcain@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: "Drive-Aways:"  No Vanagon Content
Comments: To: John Ryan <jcryan@IMAGINEMAIL.COM>
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>Hello Everybody:
>
>Somewhat out of scope but does anyone know of automobile transporter
>companies who actually DO drive-aways (not driveways). This is where
>you can drive someone's car, usually someone moving coast to coast.
>In return for your driving services, you get the free trip and
>oftentimes gas money. I've contacted several companies who advertise
>as transporter/drive-away types but often they do not do driveaways
>and are somewhat rude in telling you so. Is there some stigma on the
>practice?


I did some of that a bunch of years ago, maybe 20?  I got the info
from the yellow pages.  It was a good deal, didn't make money but had
a free trip and time to enjoy the ride, since I needed only one way
trip and money was scarcer than time.  Problem is getting to exactly
where you want.  Bigger cities are the best.  One time I drove an
early 70' camero that had been reposessed from Atlanta to Buffalo.
It was in bad shape, but they paid a little more because it was stick
shift and nobody wanted to take it.  It overheated most of the way
and the hood was smashed in so I couldn't get it open.  The shipper
said "don't worry, just get it there and let the garage worry about
what condition it was in.  The air didn't work either and it was
July.  The worst part, as I was signing the papers, was seeing two
college kids loading into a brand new Mercedes SL roadster going to
CA.  Their eyeballs were hanging to the ground, and they got paid to
drive it!