well here she is, cat's outa the bag. This is what I was inquiring about all the customs shit about.
Packed up the wife and 3 month old daughter hit the first ferry and began draging my step dads 18' long tilt bed trailer with my poor little Jeep. I was gonna rent a 12' uhaul trailer down there but got denied cause the jeep didn't weigh enough. after a near death experience with a golf ball sized rock almost flying through the windshield and a little detour, we made it to canby oregon to meet Jeff Lovell. Couple hours later and the car was loaded, spare parts were stashed everywhere and the deal was done. As we're driving away down his road, I tell my wife he offered me the motor out of the car for a screamin deal but I didn't take it, she says why don't we turn around.............I says pardon
We hit the closest bank machine and took out the daily limit off all our cards and head back. Loaded all that up and Jeff led us to his shop to lock up the precious cargo overnight and hit a hotel for the night. Jeff told us he'd unlock it first thing in the morn so he got a wake up call at 6:30 poor guy and we headed out.
Well lets just say once I get the trailer of the jeep it's gonna thank me, there was a lot of 4th gear freeway downshifting.
After some idiot just about side swiped us in seattle we got to what I thought was the blaine border crossing which turned out to be the peace arch and my paperwork was at the truck crossing
back through the line up to the us into construction traffic in blaine and i'm sprinting to the export office at 3:07 ( they close at 3:30)
Got the car through canada customs charged me duty after me arguing with the guy about the duty free old car thing to no prevail, where did I see that refund form?
Gotta give props to jeff, he's a wicked guy and gave me a sweet deal
Stay tuned for more pics and some race car parts for sale soon, I gotta recoupe some of this, I hit the overdraft/credit line hard.
josh
