<VV> [Fwd: Someone told me about a car for sale]

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

VAT is correct (it's 25% at the moment but is usually 27.5%), but it's not 
correct that it is a good way to ship parts (well, at least not parts that 
are worth having).

Some shippers actually demand that the cars be shipped empty - I had to pay 
$600 to have the contents removed from the trunk and sent back to NC with 
the first Corvair that I ever shipped, because I left it at the dock 
absolutely loaded to the gunwales and went back to my friend's house in NC.

The reason it is actually better to ship the cars empty anyway is because 
they have to be left unlocked with the keys in, in a non-secure compound (it 
is locked so that they can't be driven out).

All the local small-time crooks and pond life and mouth-breathers and Mafia 
and street gangs (don't forget we are talking about Jersey City here...) 
then swarm over the fence and pick the cars over, so you have to make sure 
you have a spare set of keys (they usually chuck those in the dock), cover 
the seats VERY well and remove anything that might 'walk' from the car (e.g. 
switches, steering wheel caps, hubcaps, badges, etc.), as well as making 
sure there is nothing to steal from it. The only thing I have ever 
successfully shipped in a car was the 1946 Schwinn bike that I chained to 
the seat in the back of the 8-door when we shipped it!

And all the cars arrive in the UK with a dead battery, because the teamsters 
or whatever they are have to drive the cars onto the ship, and they usually 
can't work out what is 'on' and what is 'off', and so they leave the 
ignition on, which deadens the battery.

Cheers

Alan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>; "Nick Elzinga" 
<starship at worldonline.co.za>; "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> [Fwd: Someone told me about a car for sale]


> And a good way to ship parts inside the van without duty (what do you call
> it -VAT or something?).
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
>>
>>
>> The 8-door cost me $1200 or so to ship, because they go on volume, and 
>> the
>> 8-door pretty much fills the cube of air it occupies!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alan
>>
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