Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:00:40 -0400
Reply-To: Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Vanagon camper height (was: camper shipping cost)
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from vanagon.com (http://vanagon.com/info/years/index.html): for a 1990
Vanagon GL camper
Wheelbase:
96.9" 2.46 meters
Front track:
62.4" 1.58 meters
Rear track:
61.8" 1.57 meters
Length:
179.9" 4.57 meters
Width:
72.6" 1.84 meters
Height:
80.9" 2.05 meters
Ground clearance:
7.5" 16 cm
Turning circle:
(curb-to-curb)
35.8 ft 10.91 meter
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> ---- Craig Cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > Try uship.com if you want to take a chance with a less professional and
> potentially slower company.
> > I have had good luck with rightway and it's cost about $1000 to ship
> from west coast(ish) to western pa each time.
> > One was from Oregon, the other from California.
> > Mind you that's been 4 and 2 years ago now, so prices may have changed
> somewhat since then.
>
> AAA gives the distance from Edmond, OK to Spokane, WA as 1746.4 miles.
> That's right at $1.12 per mile. I was quoted $1450 ($0.83 per mile) to
> ship my Prius. Of course, if I drive the Prius, I will use about 35
> gallons of gas, and will have 2 hotel nights (or $125 for gas plus $180 for
> hotels = $305) plus meals. If I drive the camper, I will use 100 gallons
> of gas (including finding camping stops), will have 4 nights of camping,
> probably paying for 2 of them (or $350 for gas plus $40 for camping) plus
> meals. The trip out to Spokane looks to cost me a little more with the
> van, but the difference will be less than the shipping cost difference. My
> household stuff will go in "Pods." That's another story, and more
> appropriate for Friday, but I won't trouble you with it at all.
>
> Of course, my wife says we are to drive the van out, take care of some
> business out there, leave the van and fly back, then drive out in the
> Prius. Lots more cash out that way for sure.
>
> Blair at Riteway said the van has to go on a different trailer than a
> normal car trailer because of its height, accounting for some of the cost
> difference. What exactly is the height for a Westy?
>
> mcneely
> >
> > -craig
> >
> > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Nomadix <subarusyncro@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > Shipping cost for a larger corporate company are usually .85 cents to
> a dollar per mile. If you can find a shipper that needs a load back then
> it can be much cheaper.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Wow ... I was quoted 2600 to ship a 1991 Westfalia Atlantic from
> Germany to Halifax ....
> > >>
> > >>> On 10-Jul-2014, at 18:15, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Riteway just quoted me $1950 to ship my camper from central Oklahoma
> to eastern Washington. mcneely
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
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