Not as the Crow Flies!

talkingcars wrote:

Leigh Ping wrote:

talkingcars wrote: my department was exclusivly doing airfreight to Dubia!

That also near Newtcastle?

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Ignore them mate.
It's just because I inadvertently added a T into the spelling of Carlisle by pressing R and T at the same time. As Chief of the Spelling Police I am, apparently, never going to be allowed to forget it. :nonod:

Rich, I have even a better story.

I guy here bought a Spitfire (whole car) from Drakes in British Columbia and had it shipped to Halifax,Nova Scotia where it was to be loaded on a RoRo ship to St. John's, Newfoundland. He got a call from the shipping company who said, " Sir, we don't know how this happened but your car has been mistakenly put on a ship for Baltimore, Maryland, but we have arranged for it to be sent back to Halifax and will arrive back in 10 days. " 7 days later he gets another call " Sir, I don't know how to tell you this but your car was again put on the wrong ship and is now on it's way to the United Kingdom! " He eventually got the car, about a month later, and they reimbursed him for his shipping costs plus $150!!

All I could figure was the car had it's own ideas and wanted to return to it's birthplace!!!

John,

I read about the Spitfire delivery on the Triumph Experience forum a few weeks back. I almost feel off my chair from reading the trip that Spitfire went on, simply amazing.

I didn't know it was posted elsewhere, I ran into a friend with a TR6 at Chapters last week and he was the one who found the car at Drakes and convinced his friend to buy it ,as it was a California car.

That's a classic! At least the shipping company had the class to refund his fees with a bonus.
Drakes get some nice cars. They have their own transporter and make regular buying trips down to Cali.
They're not overpriced either. Before I bought my ZA I was looking at a 1974 MGF they had that was identical to my first car.
(Citron yellow 1974 MGB) Unfortunately someone beat me to it. Probably not a bad thing as I may not have bought my MGF if I had the B!

Here's a link to the post: http://www.triumphexperience.com/phorum/read.php?8,704761,704761#msg-704761

talkingcars wrote:

Leigh Ping wrote:

talkingcars wrote: my department was exclusivly doing airfreight to Dubia!

That also near Newtcastle?

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Yeah sorry TC. Didn't know you'd missed episode one of this joke. .

Amazing story with the Triumph.

Rich in Vancouver wrote: That's a classic! At least the shipping company had the class to refund his fees with a bonus.
Drakes get some nice cars. They have their own transporter and make regular buying trips down to Cali.
They're not overpriced either. Before I bought my ZA I was looking at a 1974 MGF they had that was identical to my first car.
(Citron yellow 1974 MGB) Unfortunately someone beat me to it. Probably not a bad thing as I may not have bought my MGF if I had the B!

WOW, 1974 MGF!! thats a rare one indeed!! :broon:

That's just a typo...........








it's a 1947............

D'oh! :coat: