I am getting some parts from Factory Five for the Daytona coupe project I'm abut to start. Factory Five's shipping company wants to charge $800 to ship a front clip from MA to my place in FL. Anyone else want to do it for cheaper? I was thinking more like $400, it's a 22 hour trip according to Google. Is that $800 reasonable afterall?
Figure the distance at 3 bucks a gallon...
In reply to t25torx:
I had a freight company ship a 600lb motorcycle that far for $650 with door to door service and special handling when fuel prices were higher so that does sound expensive. Try calling a freight company like you would if you were buying a lift on ebay for a quote of your own.
Roughly a 1,470 mile trip.
In my truck at least, that's about $370 in gas alone.
At least now we know approximately how far the trip is.
U-ship?
I was just thinking U-ship would be the cheapest way to do this.
Try Uber!
Does Greyhound have the room for one of these?
If it will fit on a standard pallet and not exceed 100lbs, Greyhound will do it for under $200 i would bet.
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I'm guessing they also build a crate for it. That costs quite a bit. It would suck to have a broken clip delivered.
Those daytona coupe kits are sweet.
LTL - Less Than Truckload - freight is costed by freight class. The classing guidelines are protected more closely than nuclear launch codes.
Essentially it's a weight/volume relationship. The most perfect load is one where 100% of the truck's volume is used up the same time as it's weight capacity.
So a 24" square pallet containing a 350# anvil is much cheaper to ship than a 1/2 car sized crate containing 150# of fiberglass bodywork and brackets.
8 bills sounds about right for LTL.
In reply to Swank Force One:
IME with Greyhound, it may also arrive in a much easier stored state than it left the factory.
If you can wait until August I may be on strike, and would love an adventure. I live 20 minutes from factory five. I think the bodies are made in Rhode Island though.
Chris
Crating it will be some $$$$$ I would expect that at least 1/3 of that 800 is crating. Hell the plywood cost alone is going to be some $$$$. The 800 sounds very reasonable.
You may be able to ship it via amtrak. DC to Florida express will do it, but they have trains running up to MA as well.
I couldn't afford to do it for $400
What parts are you getting?
Yeah nearl $300 in gas for me towing. Gonna need to get paid at least $1200 to do that run for you. Remember going down that way with a trailer is like $100 in tolls round trip unless you go the back way.
Maybe you should build 90% of the car (minus what you're asking to ship) and drive up to Wareham and bolt it on in thier parking lot!
Last month I had a complete carb to flywheel Porsche 911 engine sent from Seattle to WV for $200 through Fastenal. I don't know if they have size restrictions, but the engine was boxed on a pallet. They're worth a look.
Thanks for the responses guys! Okay so $400 is to low it would seem (hey can't fault me for asking). I may have a line on getting it here through a forum member though so we'll see how that goes. If not I'll bite the bullet and pay the $800.
One final offer, $400 and the 3 wheels and hoosier r6's! lol 
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