How many miles do you travel to get your project ?

Why is it that everything we ( as a group of rodders ) find something we want ... it is always 400, 600 or more miles away ? Everytime I find a vehicle I would consider buying ... it is 2 to 3 days travel away.

I went to Lake Erie from the middle of South Carolina ... almost 30 years ago to get my 32 Roadster ... my 56 F-100 big window came from St. Louis ... the engine for my 3W ... I went to the other side of Dallas. I went to Arizona to get 32 parts before ...


SO ... how far have you went to get a project ??

 

i drove from pittsburg, ks to edgerton,mn which is (according to mapquest)
Total Est. Time: 8 hours, 51 minutes

Total Est. Distance: 535.65 miles
where i got a 36 chevy pick up cab frame and grille for $450 3 weeks later i found a complete truck in better shape less than 3 miles from my house i paid the guy $800 and he delivered it to my door step

my wife was SUPER happy oh well it was a nice drive

 

I drove almost four miles to get my five window....I was exhausted.

 

new york to kansas city on one, the rest have been closer.

 

Drove from Ohio to the North end of Georgia and back In one day to pick up my 37 coupe.
Left at 5 am and got back to Ohio dollying the car around 4 am.
I was singing to myself with my head out the window the last two hours. It was total excitement that kept me awake.

 

NC to Connecticut

 

I went all the way across town to get that T-plane from UncleScooby.


'course I did go 500miles to Lynchburg to get my Austin and 640 miles to get a '47 parts truck.


And the '55 has followed me from Amarillo to Lousiana to Houston to Indy. Does that count?

 

In the last four years I have made 3 trips to New York to pick up stuff (old mercedes, 1790ci tank engine, 53 jaguar engine/trans), 3 trips to Michigan (another old mercedes and mercedes parts), Colorado to bring back a 47 Seagrave firetruck, Kansas City to bring back a 40 Seagrave Firetruck, Atlanta to bring back a 38 Seagrave firetruck. Indianapolis to get a pair of headers from Unclescooby

I did buy my Model A local

 

Lake City Fl to Lincoln Ne. and back in 3 days to get my 59 El Camino.

 

Ohio to the "Deliverance" state of West Virginia. Insert banjo music here.

 

Ben D. delivered. Iowa to Nevada.

 

My 55 chev was delivered to my doorstep, damn near killed me

 

4216.61 miles.

One way.

JH

 

When growing up in Wasilla, Alaska, the family would drive to Arizona and back to get cars from my grandpa in Wenden, Az. Over 600 miles of DIRT roads then just along the Al-Can Hiway. And we'd DRIVE the car back, never had a trailer. Over 3600 miles EACH way. Did it 4-5 times...

One of the rigs was a 40's Ford cabover truck.....all stock, flathead, two-speed rear.........that was a looooooooong trip......@ 45mph

 

went a whooping 15 miles !

 

Sold my race car to Racer Welch in Jacksonville Fl had to deliver it in November from Elk River, Mn
It was a tough job but we manage to get it done and spend the profit at Disney Park.

 

Ohio to north eastern Iowa.
I left on friday night at 6:30 p.m. pulled in sunday morning 3:30 a.m.
about 1500 miles only stopped for food and gas. I got hung up in the saturday night traffic in joliet IL. Man I wont go through there at that time again.

 

I've gone as far as 120miles.

 

I brought back fentons, intakes ,carbs,fatman spindles , and loads more for my 50 chevy in my suitcase from Canada to belfast . Brought screens this year and the furken baggage guys smashed them .

 

Harrison... I dont think the main continent is that far from shore to shore.
Are you pulling our leg?

 

My car was delivered. It went from Gainesville FL to Fort Worth TX. 1050 miles.

I went with a buddy to Kansas a couple of weekends ago to get an old Mustang. 550 miles there and then traded the car we drove, to drive his (untested) car back to TX. Made it back no problem.

 

750 miles round trip (VA to CT) to bring home my A tudor.

I figure anything within a weekend trip is fair game, but draw the line at taking vacation time.

BTW, the attendant transportation costs (gas, lodging, food) to retrieve a car need to be figured into the purchase price. For an otherwise inexpensive "project car" they can be a decisive factor.

 

I never said it was coming straight home.

JH

 

Engine #1 - 20 miles
Body - 2 miles
Frame - about 200 yards (found it in a ditch on the property line)
Engine #2 (presently on the engine stand) and wheels - 5 miles.

 

I only had to go about 60 miles for the 51. However, a buddy drove to Cali from Detroit and back, non-stop only catnaps for a Fairlane, actually he has done it twice.....
Another buddy left last night again from Detroit to N. Carolina for a 60 chevy wagon parts car...but he's a younging....

 

bus trip to prescott az from mid ga, then uneventful trip home in a beater.

 

Closest one was 5 blocks for the coupe and 500+ for the other one

 

harrison
i'm throwing the bull shit flag
you took a wrong turn in albuquerque or something.
ny to la is under 2800 miles and tennessee is kind of in the middle of the us so was the car in chile or something

 

Bought my wagon in La Mesa, CA when I was living / working in San Diego in 2004.

Of course, now I'm back home in Kentucky and the wagon had to make the trip as well.

Went from Kentucky to New Jersey and back over a weekend to pick up a project.

Learned the hard way that there are, apparently, no left turns in New Jersey.

You Jersey folks need to warn the rest of us about "jug handles"

 

Traveled from England to New Orleans to buy my TR4. Drove, or rather, coaxed it straight to the docks. I am leaving Mississippi this weekend for South Florida to pick up a Cushman.