Race car transportation

[itdontgo]

Hi,

For the moment I'm not interested in buying a trailer/transporter/LWB van etc... but I need to get my Formula Ford regularly from Liverpool to Oulton and Anglesey.

Has anyone tried hiring a transporter e.g. top of Google http://transporterhire.co.uk/

Or does anyone know a reasonable company who will transport it at the start of a weekend and collect it at the end?

Thanks

[Krikkit]

Just buy a trailer, assuming you move it more than 10 times in a year?

[rallycross]

Hire a trailer if you can't buy one.
Make sure it does not get nicked .

[itdontgo]

I don't have a suitable car

I don't really want a road car.

I want it to be someone else's problem!

[rallycross]

itdontgo said:

I don't have a suitable car

I don't really want a road car.

I want it to be someone else's problem!

Strange approach if you want to start out in motor racing - job one is transporting your car, or find a hire and drive team but will cost a fortune.

[Disco You]

itdontgo said:

I don't have a suitable car

I don't really want a road car.

I want it to be someone else's problem!

Sell the race car then.

[iguana]

Google some car transport co's in your area, I run a transport co & do this but am based down South so hardly gunna be cost effective in your case.

[AndyLB]

Few people in the area who could help.

http://www.medinasport.co.uk

Www.trackfocused.co.uk

Short of paying for track support though, you'd be looking at finding someone with a beaver tail who would work weekends?

[Roo]

itdontgo said:

I want it to be someone else's problem!

Sign up to a team that will do an arrive and drive package.

[itdontgo]

Thanks for the replies. I've been racing single seaters for ten years and have always driven for a team or paid for a drive etc...

I'm not interested in owning a road car. I cycle to work,walk the shops... I haven't had a car for a few years and it's liberating. Yes yes I'm sure you can't live without a car I don't want to hear about it.

Anyway if you work it out the ownership costs for maybe 6/7 meetings per year make owning the transport is not particularly appealing in addition to having an enormous big motor on my drive. So I have the answer to anyone else faced with this issue. You hire a LWB transit. FFord fit in them with skinny spares on... you don't just give up or do what everyone else does.

Thanks once again for your suggestions.

[johnfm]

Top lurking!

Like the style too - only car is a race car.

Why? Because race car.

[s p a c e m a n]

Yeah, hire a van. Find a little back street place and try to talk a deal, we normally manage to get a new renault beavertail for £80 from when the bloke closes up Friday night until Monday morning when he opens again. The fact that we always clean the motor, don't smoke and don't look like a bunch of idiots helps us quite a bit