[V8] (3) V8 Vespa

[cobram@juno.com]

 "Campozano, Robert" <RCAMPOZANO at mgmmirage.net> writes:
> That was pretty funny.  Anyway, I have heard pretty good things from 
> the below referenced company.  You may want to check them out or if any
> lister has any experience with them feedback is appreciated.
>  
> http://www.dasautoshippers.com/ 

Hopefully they've cleaned up their act.  Archive search was useless so
here is a copy of a post to this question from many moons ago.  Took 
a year until they finally paid to fix some of the damage, my friend was 
still out about $2500 they didn't pay for, but he was lucky, since the 
company he works for contracted DAS, his company picked up the 
tab for the damages DAS wouldn't make good on:
 
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Stay away from D.A.S. auto movers (dependable auto shippers)
1-800-726-2693 (number included in case they might be listed under a
different name in some states.)  They just moved 2 or a friends cars from
MO to CA.  
One car showed up without the rear bumper, tailights and lightbar
smashed, and an uncountable number of dings, dents and scratches.   Aside
from a large number of dings, dents and a rip in his front apron, his
other car arrived with a burned smell coming from the front, upon driving
he found that the car had almost no brakes.  Took it to a tech, brakes
were cooked, glazed and scored all around.  He checked his notes, and the
car had an extra 35 miles on it from when they supposedly put it on the
truck and it was delivered.  Evidently those 35 miles were driven
with a foot on the brake and one on the gas.  He's fighting with their
insurance now, and they are being less than reasonable.  I would
recommend you find a customs broker/freight forwarder and ask them to set
it up for you.  I used to transport cars by the container full, and I can
attest to the fact that the $25 - $50 the freight forwarders charge to
set things up is well worth it.  The trucking companies and car carriers
have more of a stake in making sure they don't get on the wrong side of
forwarders and brokers who might bring them
trainloads of business than they do with a one shot individual client
who's probably going to just go away slowly if they screw up.  Another
way to get cars shipped cheaply and safely is to call around to very high
end used car dealers (think $100K and up Ferrari etc.) in the state
you're moving to and ask them if they have any exotic cars being shipped
near you.  What happens is that these cars usually come on an enclosed
car carrier all by themselves, and go back to the left coast empty.  So
if you can hook up with the driver (who is usually also the owner of the
rig)  when he's scheduled to deliver, you can make a deal with him to
deliver your car, I've done this several times when I had to ship cars
out of Miami, saved a few bucks and never had a problem .  If you're not
going to be there when the car arrives, you should set something up at a
paid parking lot, gas station etc. so that the car can be offloaded as
soon as it arrives.
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BCNU,
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Looks like God left the phone off the hook.