Shipping GTA between UK and France

Hello, has anyone any experience of having a car shipped from england to france.

I live in germany now and my non-running GTA turbo is currently in the garage of a house I own in Gloucester. The house is rented out and its a matter of time until the tennant starts complaining about his garage being full of plastic!!

A friend has just bought a big old farmhouse (with massive barn) just over the border from me in france and has offered me free use of this to dump the car in and hopefully square it up together.

Can anyone suggest the cheapest method of shifting the car? There are companies advertising on ebay but as its such a long way (circa 600 miles) they are after approaching £1000 to do it.

I have considered that it would be probably be easier to just hire a trailer and do it myself, but seeing as my daily driver is this...

I don't think its up to the job !!

I don't suppose companies will rent out car transporter trucks will they?

Thanks

Joe

[Alpineandy]

I don't suppose companies will rent out car transporter trucks will they?

Hi Joe,
It's probably cheaper to either do it yourself (Hire a car in germany/france) or arrange for a german/french company to pick it up for you.

Ask Andyh877 if he can recomend someone (he's comparatively local to you).


(Or Mr Bllx.... )

If you saw the cr@p bo11ox drives around in you wouldn't reccomend that option I don't think! He wants to shift his Fiat 130 from manchester at some point so its looking like the cheapest option would be to buy an old xantia turbo diesel or similar + trailer and then flog them on after we had finished.

Its just a matter of if we find a method cheap enough to save us the hassle!

Fiat 130, nice motor in its time, used one as a taxi for a few years, thanks Dad for being chauffer too, can't be many left on the roads now.
Not seen one for years, but there are 2 in classic sports car classifieds at the moment.
Why not get your mate to invite some friends over for a holiday weekend. Just that they need to get the project cars to france. They could hire a trailer for a couple of hundred quid each.

Just been passed the link to the thread if my input is required

I have a transporter here in france as i've just moved a car down her myself.

there are options, quite a few companies in europe rent out recovery transporters....... but if you want to use it for a long trip they will charge you per Klm after you've used up the free amount they give you as ert of the rental deal.

surprisingly UK rental companies are cheaper on long distance runs than Euro runs for that reason.

Cheapest option buy a suitable cheap tower ( big deezel RWD is ideal) and sell it on once you've finished with it! and a trailer or borrow one.

or

send me a PM and we'll see if we can come to some arrangement as I'm fully insured to transport vehicles

Fiat 130, nice motor in its time, used one as a taxi for a few years, thanks Dad for being chauffer too, can't be many left on the roads now.
Not seen one for years, but there are 2 in classic sports car classifieds at the moment.
Why not get your mate to invite some friends over for a holiday weekend. Just that they need to get the project cars to france. They could hire a trailer for a couple of hundred quid each.

I love the 130, a big ugly old brute, but man what a great sounding engine. My friends used to be owned by Martin Buckley (classic car article writer) and has been mag featured a few times in its better days. It has full stainless exhaust I think which sounds awesome.

15mpg tho, but on LPG.

andyh877 you have PM....