FOAK: Transporting a car to lands foreign

One of the cars I'm currently attempting to flog has attracted interest
from a bloke in Austria. So far so good, but he checked the prices for
flights & fuel and figured out that if I can get the car transported
over to him it'll probably work out cheaper.

However I have absolutely no fucking clue where I could find someone who
transports cars to the continent. Anybody got any suggestions where to
look at the usual ebay transport companies probably wouldn't want to
know?

Of course if one of the workshy layabouts here fancies a trip to
Austria, I might be all ears .

 

Take it yourself, charge him & have a holiday for a day or two

Or, pay me & I'll take it for you, never been to Austria!


--
Nige, 'That's not my name'

Range Rover Td6 Vogue
BMW K1200S (off soon)
Suzuki GSX-R1000 K3
Focus ST3 (off soon)
Audi A3 Cab
BMW F800GS

 

Why don't you persuade him to take delivery in 6 weeks time because
I'm sure one of us will collect you from Austria and bring you home
when we do the Elefantentreffen.

Obviously you'd have to be available for collection before the rally
rather than after it or there'd be no point..

 

It cost me about 300 quid to get a car and 2 bikes from Milton Keynes to
Caerphilly.

I'm sure it's going to be significantly cheaper for him to get a cheap
Sleazyjet flight and drive back.

 

Now there's a good point. Jane asked me not to go to next years due to the
fact we go back to barbados the weekend after & given my luck of barbados
last year & the whole holiday getting fucked up by an accident I have to
agree with her, but driving a car in snow. I could do that.

--
Nige, 'That's not my name'

Range Rover Td6 Vogue
BMW K1200S (off soon)
Suzuki GSX-R1000 K3
Focus ST3 (off soon)
Audi A3 Cab
BMW F800GS

 

Set out, driving it, let it break down (you'll have no trouble there, I
think), and get the AA to recover it to your destination.

 

Timo Geusch wrote:

I'll do it.

 

I've just pointed him in the direction of Sleazyjet - he lives close to
Vienna and they only fly from there to Luton, but it's still better than
the 1500 quid that Vienna-Gatwick would cost him (I checked this as I
couldn't believe that myself).

I'm trying to convince him that he'd be better off flying over here and
I'll guide him to Dover and put him on a ferry...

 

I doubt he'd be too happy to pay my usual daily rate, plus it's the
wrong corner of Austria for me.

Fifty quid for you and about 300 for fuel?

 

Thanks, but I think I'll pass. According to SteveH, I'm a little
eccentric but I'm not /that/ eccentric.

 

Road trip!

--
Nige, 'That's not my name'

Range Rover Td6 Vogue
BMW K1200S (off soon)
Suzuki GSX-R1000 K3
Focus ST3 (off soon)
Audi A3 Cab
BMW F800GS

 

If you're serious, ping me an email after removing the obvious spam trap
in the headers.

 

That's like saying the Pope is 'a bit' religious.

 

I might be up for doing this if Lozzo drops out.

Need to renew my passport, is all.

--
JackH

98 Honda VFR800FiW
03 VW Passat TDI Sport (RIP)
89 Vauxhall Nova 1.3 Pearl (going, going... not quite gone)
00 VW Golf 1.9 TDI SE Estate

 

<Polite cough>

 

<scribbles list>

You've got my email.

 

Oh, bugger.

 

I'm not workshy but am retired. I'll do it for nowt but expenses. I,ll
need to get to/from Jersey.

 

and a ride home in Bonwick's chair

 

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