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ZippoZ
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Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago
#4904024 - 11/07/05 11:11 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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this is a giant pain in the ass, i want to get this car from Detroit. its an old mercedes benz diesel, in great condition. but has no engine.
i need to tow it from Detroit to chicago, about 300 miles. i can get a tow hitch for about $150 for the day..... but i dont have a truck, and noone i know that has one wants to do that drive.
i was thinking that i could rent a ryder truck, but that is going to cost lots of money i dont want to, and really cant spend...
i would like to do this for under $250.... anyone have any ideas??????????
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904036 - 11/07/05 11:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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you could buy/build a sailing mast and attach it to the car and then just sail it home. You loot and plunder other cars for food and booty, this could turn into quite a profitable venture.
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904038 - 11/07/05 11:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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No problemo!
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: WildCardsRevenge]
#4904053 - 11/07/05 11:24 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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WildCardsRevenge said: you could buy/build a sailing mast and attach it to the car and then just sail it home. You loot and plunder other cars for food and booty, this could turn into quite a profitable venture.

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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904059 - 11/07/05 11:25 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I thought you were going to get 2 cars? Tow the one that has no engine with the one that runs??
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904066 - 11/07/05 11:28 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I would check the the tow ratings for the other car diesels have torque as we all know and i think those old mercedes have quite a long wheel base.
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ZippoZ
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4904067 - 11/07/05 11:28 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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i thought of that, the one that runs weighs abut ths same as the one that dosent, both are around a ton.. and that is fucking heavy...
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904081 - 11/07/05 11:32 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Take the back roads and go 45 mph.
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904086 - 11/07/05 11:33 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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join AAA platinum...1st 100 miles free towing
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Microcosmatrix
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: goobler]
#4904093 - 11/07/05 11:37 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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hahaha yeah, I think you're on to something there. he can join like 5 auto clubs and keep getting it towed until it's in Chicago
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: goobler]
#4904094 - 11/07/05 11:37 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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wouldn't it need a engine i think they would check that.
and damn i forgot to renew my membership
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ZippoZ
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: buckwheat]
#4904098 - 11/07/05 11:38 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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actually i do have AAA.... i could pull a 3 day hiest! from d-town and a few 100 miles tows... hmmmm
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: buckwheat]
#4904102 - 11/07/05 11:39 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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mindcandy said: wouldn't it need a engine i think they would check that.
Weld the hood shut lolzerz
edit: dammit that one made me laugh out my bonghit
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ZippoZ
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: Microcosmatrix]
#4904110 - 11/07/05 11:40 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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yeah actually the hood is somewhat meessed up and i can rig it so it dosent open.
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904111 - 11/07/05 11:40 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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If they check for to see whats wrong with it just stick some junker engine in there.
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904114 - 11/07/05 11:41 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://chicago.craigslist.com/rid/  Tow the car with the suburban and get paid for it?
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: ZippoZ]
#4904119 - 11/07/05 11:42 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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IF the brakes work, with a tow strap you can pull the bitch backroads, altho that'll take a WHILE.
Had to help a buddy move one of his cars that way, with only an Ebrake. Very touchy, but possible. Suppose it depends on how bad you want it.
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: Randolph_Carter]
#4904153 - 11/07/05 11:54 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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You could rent a $30 uhaul truck, and whatever else for the dolly, and tow it that way. Those uhauls come with trailer hitches I'm pretty sure, and with the dolly you'll be golden.
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Edited by UlcerPentacidis (11/07/05 11:55 AM)
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ZippoZ
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Re: Help me figure out how to get a car, with no engine, from detroit to chicago [Re: UlcerPentacidis]
#4904249 - 11/07/05 12:33 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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$30????? i think that excludes mileage... which is pretty hefty. either way tomorrow im picking up the running one, bringing along about 10 gallons of SVO to mix with diesel, and run a one tank blend
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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