Re: How to bring a Jeep back from Colorado?

From: Miles D. Oliver (moliver@mmoliver.org)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 18:20:02 EDT


   Can you buy a trailer near the Jeeps location, Load up, drive back
home and then sell the trailer when you get it home?.

  I've done this before and buying a used trailer isn't all that bad if you
do your homework. I paid $500 for a wooden floor 12Ft trailer that
looked horrible with rust but mechanically it was sound with good rubber,
I got a temporary tag, hauled a truck back to Virginia, spent a weekend with
a wire wheel and a couple of cans of Rustoleum and then got $800 for the
trailer after all was done.

  Just a thought.

On Mon, 15 May 2006, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:

>
> "Jason Bleazard" <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> : On Mon, May 15, 2006 5:14 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net said:
> :>
> :> Ah, yes - the elusive "free" vehicle! :-)
>
> : Heh, indeed. Only this one I wouldn't be trying to license, insure or even
> : bring in to Ontario. I think that would definitely not be worth the hassle.
> : I might want to look in to that collector insurance you have, and I guess I'd
> : need an ATV sticker or something for it. I already know what my insurance
> : company would tell me if I tried to put it on the road up here.
>
> : I suppose I should have asked you first if you'd mind me parking it at your
> : place to use as a trail vehicle while we're down there. Since you made a
> : similar offer at one point regarding my '95 Dakota, I kind of assumed it would
> : be okay.
>
>
> Yep! :-) Makes sense, since it takes up even less room than a Dak. :-)
> If I ever manage to scrape together enough pennies to put up a vehicle
> storage barn, we can even get it inside and out of the weather.
>
>
> :> Another option
> :> would be if you plan to drive back home anytime in the near future, take
> :> the '01 and rent a u-haul trailer for the ride back - even that would cost
> :> you $620 though for a one way rental.
>
> : Wow, that's more than I had expected. Guess I should have checked myself.
>
>
> Yeah, it surprised the heck outta me! :-( I've rented u-haul trailers
> in the past and it was only $50 or so, but that was just "in town", for
> 24 hours. I was also going to suggest just renting a moving van and putting
> the jeep in the back, but it looks like those start out around $1200 or
> so. :-(
>
>
>
> :> How heavy is that Jeep anyway?
>
> : 2453 lbs. according to http://www.off-road.com/jeep/early/l_head.html That
> : plus the RV would definitely put us WAY over the Dakota's limit.
>
>
> That's pretty scary - if they would physically fit, I could actually
> throw 2 of them in the bed of the Ram and only be 40lbs over the limit. ;-)
>
>
> :> Are you tempted at all to
> :> weld a hitch to the back of your trailer and hook a drawbar to the
> :> front of the Jeep? :-)
>
> : Not in the slightest. There actually is a tow bar on the front of the Jeep,
> : but no tow brakes. I highly doubt the RV would survive the experience. I'd
> : be more inclined to put the Jeep behind the truck and hook the RV to the Jeep,
> : but I don't think that's a good idea either. Particularly not with a Dakota
> : doing the pulling, and no weight distributing hitch on the Jeep (it'd look
> : kinda funny standing up on its rear tires). If only I had a 3500 dually...
> : :-)
>
>
> Then the solution is obvious - we get the Jeep running and Norah has
> to drive it home, with the pedal to the floor, screaming along the interstate
> at a whopping 45mph! ;-)
>
>
> :> As long as we are on the subject of crazy ideas, what are the dimensions
> :> of that Jeep? Any chance a bunch of crazy DMLers with hand tools
> :> could remove enough parts and sheet metal to make it fit in the bed
> :> of the Dak? :-)
>
> : You mean our Quad Cab? The one with the hard shell tonneau and short-short
> : bed? LOL Less hand tools, more metal compactor. I wonder how difficult it
> : would be to un-mash once we got it back.
>
>
> Yeah, probably not. :-) Might fit in the back of a Ram though. :-)
> Hey Walt, how solid are you on the whole "nothing goes in the bed of the
> Ram" rule? ;-)
>
>
> :> (Ok, NOW I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas...) ;-)
>
> : Maybe if we build a REALLY big catapult, we can aim for something soft, like
> : the mud pit. Think NORAD would notice?
>
>
> Not if we pointed in the other direction first and yelled "What's
> that over there?!?!??" :-)
>
>

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  Miles D. Oliver
  www.mmoliver.org

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