The car was located in Pennsylvania, about 13 driving hours away. I knew I didn’t want to fly up there and drive it back. Despite what the broker said about being able to drive it anywhere, I knew better than to try and make that long of a trip in something I had never seen before that was 23 years old.
The broker suggested a company called First Choice of Elkhart (http://www.firstchoiceautohaul.com/) which he had used in the past with no problems. You call up the company and fill out some paperwork and they send a truck to pick it up and bring it to wherever you want. In the immortal words of Lewis Black, what could go wrong?
How about two of the biggest blizzards the east coast has seen in 75 years? Back to back? Yeah. So it took at least a week before the car could be picked up. Then after the pickup, the driver got stuck in West Virginia because the second storm had hit and closed the interstates.
Not a big deal really, I knew the car needed lots of work before it could be driven seriously. A few more days was no problem.
So finally the car arrives on Friday 12-Feb-10. I had assumed it could be brought to/dropped off at my house. Then the trucker calls when he’s about an hour out of town to arrange a pickup and tells me he’s in a 90 foot trailer and is there a big parking lot where we could meet. So much for getting it at the house.
Evan, the car, and the big truck.
Not a problem, we meet at a Church about a mile away from the house and pick it up. Managed to get it home despite the brake pedal nearly going through the floor. Definitely made me pucker up for a second wondering if I could stop this thing. Definitely some sort of brake problem. This would have to go to #1 on the fix list.
