Shipped my car to America, drove it around, shipped it back

[RazerSauber]

They're some epic photos. Looks like quite the road trip! 10/10 for the madness of shipping your car halfway across the globe to do it as well!

[S100HP]

[p4cks]

Cool as tits.

And what a lovely looking thing your car is... Porsche have never seen form like it since the 993

[oldaudi]

Those photos are amazing. What did you use ? I’d be happy to receive those in a book at Christmas.

[xjay1337]

Very jealous, always wanted to do something like this!

[ntiz]

This reminds me of a story I heard.

Benjafield club guys shipped there vintage Bentleys to East coast drive to Laguna Seca won the race and all the cars I. The top 10 turned round drove back to East coast to ship cars homes

Damn cool.

[br d]

Brilliant. I can completely understand wanting to take your own car on something like this. Not to do so would be like kenneling your own dog, going on holiday and then renting a different dog when you got there! The car is part of the experience.

Great stuff.

[100SRV]

Great story and photos! Love the Porsche too...

Considered importing my car to the USA temporarily when I was visiting earlier in the year as I'd prefer to drive my Defender or Bowler to the Dodge Dart pool car I was using.

[bad company]

OP, where did you get the car insured please?

[InitialDave]

Yes, I'd be really interested in all the specific mechanics of this, like the insurance, the shipping and customs arrangements etc etc.

What I understand is that the American side of things is relatively logical, bacsically you can have a non-US-legal car over there with you for up to a year, but it has to leave the country when you do?

[Shuvi McTupya]

Aircooled_Bug said:

What the...

[InitialDave]

Shuvi McTupya said:

What the...

It's an "art installation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa

[zedstar]

Looks fantastic - i'd love to do something like this!!!

Let us know more about the mechanics of it please - insurance/shipping/logistics etc.

[TVR_Steve]

Brilliant! Would love to do this!

[Shuvi McTupya]

InitialDave said:

Shuvi McTupya said:

What the...

It's an "art installation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prada_Marfa

Ah, thanks

[dibblecorse]

Brilliant, PH at its finest, great work OP.

[Byker28i]

Tim bo said:

For a few of those photos, am thinking you must have had a drone ...

tried and tested method now for driving holidays

[milfordkong]

This is so very very cool - Love the pictures and will check out the blog at length too.

As many others have requested, would love to know a little more about the costs, timescales and logistics of getting the car over and insuring it etc.

[SonicShadow]

Awesome.

Roughly how much did it cost to get the car shipped there and back? Was the import / export process difficult on the US side?

[aeropilot]

Excellent.....and love the overhead stuff, very cool.

A few friends have done this in years past taking their hot rods over to USA for road trips.

One shipped his to the east coast and did a coast to coast road trip, shipping it back from Long Beach, and two others shipped there hot rods to California, and drove them up to Bonneville, raced them on the salt flats, and then drove them on a road trip back to the east coast to be shipped back to the UK.