REPRO LWB SPARE TIRE BRACKETS?

[joel gopan]

If I figured the shipping correctly, the Euros converted to US Dollars would be
approximately:(for the boxed item)

$87.00 Economy
$131.00 Priority

Don't know if Insurance is applicable, and there may be Duty.
Still not bad for shipping the heavy bracket.

[Bill_Wolf]

Why doesn't whoever want one PM each other and have Corne ship them in one box. The cost per unit for shipping will be alot lower.

Bill

I am trying to get one of those hand cranked Radio Generators (GN-58 or something like that) over here. The piece is $85 the shipping is $200.

Bummer

We gotta find a better way.....

[armydriver]

Good idea. I am waiting for him to reply on the costs and boxing and shipping. Maybe we can get together. I did that on parts from Sweden that I got for my truck. They were put into the bed of a Dodge weapons carrier that was already being shipped to the U.S. via container. Saved a bundle of money.

[Bill_Wolf]

They were put into the bed of a Dodge weapons carrier that was already being shipped to the U.S. via container. .

AD,

You could not do that anymore.

Last time I was at the Port of Providence to do a repair campaign on cars. We watched the 800 Saabs being driven off a DODO (Drive-on, Drive-off) ship, they would come off the ship and stop a a certain point down at the end of the pier where 2 vans were parked. They were there for about 30 seconds and then were parked in line.

The "pit stop" was to grab anything out of the brand new car that was not bolted down (and some things that were)..

This continued for about the first 50 cars until the Port Manager called over to the orgiinized crime boss (Union). That Boss was driven down to the "pit stop" in his Cadillac, we watched from a distance as he threw one of the part timers off the pier into Naragansett Bay (The guy survived). The diversion to the "Pit stop" stopped immediately and the cars went directly from the Boat to the storage line..

A container might be safer...but I would make sure that the contents were fully insured.

Bill

[joel gopan]

There are brokers who fill containers and do this service, but it will cost more in the end, as there are Broker fees, each Union trade that has to handle the box gets a bite of it also. The worst are Fork Lift fees and the "Cooper" that has to remove a board for Customs to take a peek. After that each Spare tire bracket will have to be individually packed before reshipping to the individual owner. The guy who receives the crate deserves the pick of the bunch, as his work is just starting,as someone has to pick this up at the docks, or pay for Motor Freight to the first destination. Maybe I am wrong, but it is not all that easy.You are looking at an approx 300# crate at least the size of a dishwasher.


Whatever happened to the one that was waiting to be sent from overseas a couple months ago?

[armydriver]

Look how shipping costs have skyrocketed here in the U.S. I eas going to ship a CCKW hood to Mobile and the shipping costs were running $125.00 and up by UPS, Fed ex so I shipped it by Greyhound bus for 45.00. It is just one has to go to the bus station to pick up the item. I notifce Jerry can shipping for the most part is around 18.00 here in the states and they are light and not large. Just a part of our lives, and that is shipping costs that in a lot of cases are more than the cost of the items.

[joel gopan]

That said, do you have a solution to get the Spare Tire Brackets back to the USofA and landed at everyone's doorstep?

[joel gopan]

Look at the hits this thread is getting, it may be an all time great. What makes this site great is it's following, and the ability to pick an interesting topic that reaches out and grasps the attention of the MV audience with a hot topic that they all can relate to.

[joel gopan]

I doubt that any of these are going to be found NOS in the US on dusty warehouse shelves, the places that may have afforded us that opportunity have become history, the two that had these dreams on shelves up to recently, were Mott Haven truck Parts, and NAPCO, they had acres of warehouses that provided NOS and Remanufactured WWII parts to friendly Governments using WWII US equipment. They have since liquidated or have been torn down, and their parts scrapped. I bought many WWII Jeep and CCKW parts from them over the years, and even helped them locate scarce parts that they had requests for. Barnett and Small recently ceased to exist, and Arnold was loaded with WWII Goodies, NOS CCKW Headlight Buckets, NOS WWII Jeep Combat Wheel parts, and rare Carburetors and Electrical components. Arnold Small understood that there would be a future in stocking OD colored Parts, and that Carburetors were a good item also. He cashed in on his investment many times in over 55 years in the Business. Alretta Truck Parts in Boston did the same.