What's the furthest you ever went to get a car?

Leaving next friday for a 3 day 2600(round trip) mile fun run (?) to Minnesota to pic up my new 30 sedan body. What's the furthest youv'e ever gone to get a good project?
Later
Shane T.

 

From Dallas to San Fransisco. Was a long drive back. Not to mention scary as hell. Doesn't fit the board, but it was a beat up 67 Fastback with a worn out 289. Stopped once to sleep on the side of the highway in the desert.

 

3rd base

 

Sea to shining sea!

I bought my Plymouth off of Ebay in the winter. I was in CA it was in NC. He delivered it to my in-laws in north GA and we drove a Chevy Suburban there, left that with my father-inlaw so he could pull his drag car around, and drove the Plymouth home, with a small trailer and two baby seats in the back. Made it. Not a bad shakedown for a $1900 car....

We did it over the holidays and made a vacation out of it.

 

I made a 2600 mile round trip, to get a truck (ebay) and went home with an empty trailer 'cause the seller was a sorry sack of shit ....truck was badly misrepresented.

That sucked.

 

Does flying from Connecticut to California and driving a '56 Ford Half Ton home count?

 

San Diego to Knoxville ~5K miles RT

 

That's really funny.......

 

My girls came to Grimes Iowa from Townsville Queensland Australia
Took a couple months and a heck of a lot of cash!

And yes I have had a couple dumbasses tat asked if I drove them over!

 

I might have you there Road kill, I travelled from auckland New Zealand to North Carolina and then back to Phoenix before I found my Olds, I figure even AKL to Phoenix is a good chunk on milage, and like you I didn't drive back the bridge toll's a killer

 

I wanted a 240sx coupe, so I flew to NYC, drove alone back to KC in 24 hours. In December. I spent every cent I had (I wrote a bad check for the toll and gas.) Paid cash for all the red bull. Found a black 5 speed 25 miles away in the paper the following week. :doh:

 

Geez.. I don't feel so bad about having to plan for 550 miles round trip, then another 180 to my storage place all this weekend.

You guys are dedicated!

 

not that far, that's for damn sure

 

I went CRAZY! Oh wait Thats where I started from. Ann Arbor Mi to Decatur Ill and back in 1 day around 900 miles total

 

i drove from long island to spring hill fla to get a hummer...then i looked for cars

 

MilesM relayed my '32 Fordor frm Baldor Manitoba Canada to Phoenix then BenD picked it up & hauled it to Selmer TN. This was somewhere north of 4000 miles.

I did the last 600 miles (Knoxville to Selmer & back) myself. I'm all hardcore like that.

JH

 

Drove from Dayton, Ohio to Mesa, Arizona to pick up my '57. About 3600 miles round trip. Took a buddy with me, but I ended up driving all but about about 4 hours each way. Drove straight through except for gas and chow stops.

 

I went from Perth to Sydney Australia then over to Atlanta to get my first 32 3window. Thats a fair distance.

 

ENDED UP MARRIED CUZ I WENT ALL THE WAY IN A CAR.. OOPS THATS GETTIN PERSONAL
goin be in minnesota ??????
heavy wet snow in the forcast next 3 days and cold dress for the wind and wet..
gopher show at the state fairgrounds sat and sun see titus 's car... in middle of the north metro area.. not far off 35w or 94

good luck on the road
paperdog

 

Melbourne ,australia, to Houston ,texas to pick up my shoebox, then drove it back to LA. i had to catch a plane over the water bit, unfortunately.whats that, 15, 20,000 miles? something like that.

 

Detroit MI to Sacremento CA About 2500 miles one way...ouch
It sure was a good reason to see the west. Missed the 50th anniversary of the Bonneville salt flats meet. Boy was I pissed...My 20/20 hindsight was in full force. I sure would do it again though!

 

Pasadena CA...from Göteborg, Sweden

'57 Chebby of course...

 

well, i went from Houston to Chicago to buy a bike, flew out for cheap, (99 bucks), and u-hauled it back.

 

It's definitely OT. But I won a pristine Lincoln MK VII LSC on eBay in '04, rented an Avis Olds Alero and drove 1100 miles from Niles, Oh straight to Yukon Ok solo to pick it up, then drove her home. Most folks around home thought that I was crazy. But I wanted a nice rustfree Linc driver and had a fun adventure to go along with the purchase..

Jan

 

I once won a car on ebay for $308, flew from El Paso to Reading PA bought an ex u-haul truck for $1000 (77 F-350) and drove home passing through Raleigh NC and Macon GA . Total trip was just shy of 3,000 miles.

PS: The $1000 U-haul is one helluva truck. Runs great.

 

I went from San Francisco to British Columbia for a 57 pontiac safari then went from the city by the bay to dallas for a 57 pontiac parts car for the drive train and A/C Thats kinda like two trips for one car. LTR Dave

 

Married a cops daughter for a 56 F100.

 

Drove a U-Haul from Portland, OR with a 68 Dart Vert on a trailer to Lafayette, LA. Dropped that off and immediately went to Austin, TX for a 67 Mustang fastack and trailered that back to Lafayette, LA. Then brought the U-Haul back. They were surpised I made such good time coming form Portland!

Also drove from Lafayette, LA to North Carolina to pick up 3 426 Hemi engines..... ......then drove straight back.

Dave

 

How about 5 trips 2400 each way to move my cars (2 at a time) Michigan to the southern Oregon coast? Still have to go back now a couple of more times to get the rest of the parts for them.

I do wonder about the sanity I maintain when pre-1960 cars are involved

(let alone my wife)????

 

drove ('92 Caprice) 1000 miles from alberta, canada to salt lake city to visit my buddies and drove home a '68 Coupdeville i ended up buying.