Posted: 4/24/2009 6:02:53 AM EDT
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So, about 20 years ago I had a Jeep Commando.
some asshat stole the rear end and a bunch of other parts, so, I never got to fix it up. I found the one below on Craigslist. ($2400) The owner says no problems, but the tires are old. I'm thinking I can fly to Vegas, pick it up and drive it home after picking up some new tires. I'm thinking, if it sucks I stay in Vegas a few days, if it doesn't. I have a 1300mi road trip. What say the WAHTF? 
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| Hard call, we have flown around the west coast to drive cars home and more often than not they wouldnt or didnt make the trip home. I would fly down to inspect it before buying anyway you look at it though. After you take your test drive than you can go with your gut on whether you drive it home or trailer it. You can also hire a car transporter that durning these times might e pretty hungry and wanting to deal. I have used Kiwi Karriers out of Port Townsend before, prompt affordable and honest. The road trip was/is fun until something major breaks in the middle of no where. |
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car trailer ^ This. Think of all of the stress you would avoid when that front wheel bearing gives out in the middle of the desert and damages the spindle. 
Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingo. Middle of nowhere desert road w/ no cell service is not what you want to take part in. 
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I had the convertible called a Jeepster. I could be wrong and it was a totally different model, but it looked just like that. It was a blast. We took it over a small jump, all 4 wheels off the ground. We also took it through a car wash with the top down. Yup I was in it.
Take a trailer or rent one there and drop off here. Recent photos of the duce make you homesick? |
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You need a co-pilot. Coincidentally, I have plenty of vacation saved up. You'll just need to provide the airfare, food, lodging, and a hat.
Can't do a trip like that without a cool hat. One like this maybe? 
I'm supposed to be getting one for Christmas last year. Haven't seen it yet though. |
| As much as the "road trip" through bat country sounds like fun, I think it would be wise with a car that old that you trailer it home. Uhaul will rent one way. I did that on my move from Idaho to seattle. However, if you get down there and the thing runs like a top and looks like it will hold together......go for it. |
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Quoted: I see what you did there... avoid PRK very smart http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f6/187sks/Travel08s.jpg Did this one last summer in 71 hours, but only because the person I got the car from was family. I don't think we'd have done it if there were any questions on the condition of the vehicle. Unless you got a door gunner going with, I recommend the trailer.  all you need is a UtAH permit and you can carry every state that thits |
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One like this maybe? http://katechaplin.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/logo1.jpg?w=200&h=234 I'm supposed to be getting one for Christmas last year. Haven't seen it yet though. A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything. |
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Fuck the trailer.
Some of the greatest stories in the world start out with "So then I decide to go to Vegas and drive the car 1300 miles back home...after putting new tires on it of course...." 6 weeks later you are a biggamist with a stripper wife and a peace symbol branded on your upper left arm. Half your body is shaved and you are pretty sure you just crapped a Q-tip. Homeland Security is looking for you, but in a good way. Of course you will find out 15 years later when you are trying to return from a vacation in Mexico that they never removed your name from the SDN list, but hey Mexico needs English speaking Border Guards also - you'll be a shoe in for the job. Get the car, take a camera, have the time of your life. |
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Fuck the trailer. Some of the greatest stories in the world start out with "So then I decide to go to Vegas and drive the car 1300 miles back home...after putting new tires on it of course...." 6 weeks later you are a biggamist with a stripper wife and a peace symbol branded on your upper left arm. Half your body is shaved and you are pretty sure you just crapped a Q-tip. Homeland Security is looking for you, but in a good way. Of course you will find out 15 years later when you are trying to return from a vacation in Mexico that they never removed your name from the SDN list, but hey Mexico needs English speaking Border Guards also - you'll be a shoe in for the job. Get the car, take a camera, have the time of your life. I like the way this man thinks.... |
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Fuck the trailer. Some of the greatest stories in the world start out with "So then I decide to go to Vegas and drive the car 1300 miles back home...after putting new tires on it of course...." 6 weeks later you are a biggamist with a stripper wife and a peace symbol branded on your upper left arm. Half your body is shaved and you are pretty sure you just crapped a Q-tip. Homeland Security is looking for you, but in a good way. Of course you will find out 15 years later when you are trying to return from a vacation in Mexico that they never removed your name from the SDN list, but hey Mexico needs English speaking Border Guards also - you'll be a shoe in for the job. Get the car, take a camera, have the time of your life. I like the way this man thinks.... This! 
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all you need is a UtAH permit and you can carry every state that thits I was armed and within the law (at least firearms law) in everyone of those states (well maybe we forgot to be law abiding in oregon)
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