Re: Shipping a 164

["Henrik H Johansen" <two-h@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great idea, only one problem, how do you get back from your 2 hour leg?

Henrik Johansen, ARA
San Francisco

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <JALFAjr@domain.elided>
To: <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 4:27 PM
Subject: RE: Shipping a 164


>Bill, if you can't find a cheap enough way to ship the car, I have an idea
>that might have some interest.  (It has interest to me anyway)
>
>It is sort of a reverse Pony Express, or maybe the railroad method, or
better
>yet, the Olympic Torch.  We will call it the 164 Relay.  It works this way.
>Bill starts out from Tampa and drives two (or four, whatever he feels like
>driving out and back) hours west.  At that time Bill stops at a prearranged
>time and place where another driver takes over and drives a couple of hours
>west.  We set this up all across the country.  Nobody is out airfare and
four
>days and the car gets to where it is going.  The person driving each leg
buys
>the gas, just for the pleasure of driving the BEST ALFA EVER BUILT, the
164S.
>:>)
>
>Only downside I can see is about an additional 3000 or so miles on the car
>when it reaches SF.
>
>John Justus (ready to drive my shift in the center of the country)
>1995 164 Q (I was only kidding about the 164 S being the best, the Q is
>slightly better)
>1971 1750 GTV
>
>
>
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