Re: How to bring a Jeep back from Colorado?

From: Ray Irons (rayirons@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 20:35:26 EDT


$620 for a one way rental? I went from Dover, DE to
Quincy, CA one way with an U-Haul auto transport
trailer and the cost for the rental was $455. Maybe
its different going to Canada though.

Just my 2cents worth

Ray Irons

Quincy, CA

--- 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?!?!??" :-)
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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