Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 14:02:49 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for shipping a van from Germany to Halifax NS
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Looks like the thing to do would be strip off all those bumpers, ship
with steel wheels, no stereo etc. and bring it back from Germany with all
the FuFu parts you bought there already installed on the van.
Probably save you enough duty to make it worth while.
Those Germans have enough dress up parts for a Vanagon to drive you into
the poorhouse and make your pre-91 look like a current model.
Stan
On Mon, 27 May 2002 14:28:30 -0400 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
writes:
> But where do you stop? Everythingh is removable if you have
> enough time. Do you pull the stereo? Those fancy Volks Cafe
> bumpers? Front seats are easily removed in a westy...
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 19:50:32 +0200
> >From: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
> >Subject: Re: Suggestions for shipping a van from Germany to
> Halifax NS
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> >snipped -----
> >a Vancouver-area shipper tells me that if we pack our
> belongings in unmarked
> >boxes (no recycled liquor boxes, electronics boxes, etc.)
> and keep it all
> >covered with tarps or blankets, it will be fine...
> >end snipped -----
> >
> >There are apparently two DIFFERENT ways to get a vehicle
> across the
> >Atlantic... One being the Ro/Ro method (Roll On / Roll Off)
> which is what I
> >did, and which is generally very cheap, quick, and easy.
> >
> >The other method would be getting your goods moved by
> packing them in a
> >container, which could be the size of a small 18-wheeler
> trailer, or
> >something. This container has a lock on it... a big one....
> like 2 inch
> >thick steel bar, etc. The container carrier will guarantee
> that your goods
> >arrive safely (other than damage by shifting, which is not
> to be taken
> >lightly... on high seas, there are weather conditions which
> make the cars,
> >trucks, and containers all jump around, and often if poorly
> secured, things
> >get completely trashed)...
> >
> >Anyway, if all is safely inside a locked container you will
> receive at least
> >the shaken up goods, and if not (for example the container
> falls off the
> >ship) you will receive insurance reimbursment.
> >
> >The catch is that to have your own container is already out
> of the price
> >range for what I was referring to... the container would
> likely cost
> >between 5-10 grand, and all contants are weighed to get the
> final price.
> >
> >I had all my "goods" shipped by NorthAmerican, and they took
> care of placing
> >everything in a "shared container" for me, and delivered it
> to my door in
> >Salzburg Austria... cost around 10 grand, including
> insurance etc.
> >
> >The Vanagon went Ro/Ro and cost under 800 bucks if I
> remember correctly.
> >
> >If you do Ro/Ro and you pack anything in the car, it will be
> gone when you
> >pick it up... that's just the way it is. On a ship where
> there are like
> >2000 cars, and months of boring sea time, and bored crew
> members, who may or
> >may not be well paid, and may or may not be honest.... the
> probability of
> >you ever seeing something like a nice bike, or any other
> toy, is pretty much
> >0%.
> >
> >It is possible that other list members have a different
> opinion... if so I
> >would be glad to hear any additional and/or contarary
> information.
> >
> >Good Luck!!
> >
> >RSF
> >
> ><º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{
> >
> >Robert S. Fish
> >Salzburg, Austria
> >1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> >1987 Golf Cabriolet
> >1991 Golf
>
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