Yes, after many days of stress VIN#10719 has finally left Indiana on her way to the UK! After many emails back and forth over the last few days it happened without me even knowing about it. After emailing Jamie at Hill Shipping again to see what the state of play was he replied to say the car was collected yesterday and was on its way to Baltimore. the big moment I've been longing for for days happened without me even knowing about it.
To be fair the seller, Rick, had emailed me during the early hours of this morning. I'd somehow just missed his email. In fact the collection of the car had taken him somewhat by surprise, with the haulier only giving him twenty minutes notice of collection! Poor guy had to race out of work and back home, only to then wait for an hour and a half for the driver to turn up. He's been really understanding with the whole hold-up with collection due to the storm, so I really owe him one for being both understanding and still sorting the car out. Whats more is he's even taken pictures of her being loaded and driven off into the sunset. When he emails them over I'll upload them to the blog for all to see.
So, she'll finally make it to the Baltimore port tomorrow, then leave on the Taiko RoRo ship on Sunday, for an ETA of the 5th of December. Right on time for Christmas!
Track the ship here http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?oldmmsi=258693000&zoom=10&olddate=lastknown
Good to hear, what are you doing about UK MOT requirements, e.g. headlight pattern, fog lights? Are you keeping the original rear plate bezel or going for the wide one to accomodate a standard UK plate?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of either doing to mods myself, or maybe getthing Chris at P J Grady to do the work. He can give the car a once over as well, check everything is ok. He quoted quite a reasonable price to do the conversion and MOT it. As for the rear plate, that's a no-brainer. Got to be the original. I'll have to post on here what happens.
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