freight shipping a 440?

News:

  • Home
  • Help
  • Chat
  • Login
  • Register

    • « previous next »
    Pages: [1]

    Author Topic: freight shipping a 440?  (Read 817 times)

    Offline moparnut

    • Resident
    • *****
    • Posts: 2410
    • Nutin like a nice Piece of Hickory"Clint Eastwood
      • My Photo's
    freight shipping a 440?
    « on: August 24, 2007 - 09:45:36 PM »
    Where the best place to get shipping rate?A guy in seattle wants to buy a 440 i have for sale and i am in central california.Is there also any sites that will give a rough idea how much it will cost him to ship an engine on a pallet?I dont want to go thru all the trouble palletizing it if he will say it too much to ship

    thanks
    Logged
    70 Barracuda Gran Coupe,383-4bbl,# Match
    2012 Subaru Forester
    70 D100 Adventurer 383 pickup
    02 F250 S'cab Powerstroke 7.3 4x4 6 speed Manual
    06 Honda VTX1800S Spec 3


    Offline Bullitt-

    • Permanent Resident
    • *******
    • Posts: 12167
    • Better Things To Come Member Since 2/16/06
    Re: freight shipping a 440?
    « Reply #1 on: August 24, 2007 - 09:56:55 PM »
    Logged
    Wade  73 Rallye 340..'77 Millennium Falcon...13 R/T Classic   Huntsville, AL
    Screwed by Photobucket!

    Offline moparnut

    • Resident
    • *****
    • Posts: 2410
    • Nutin like a nice Piece of Hickory"Clint Eastwood
      • My Photo's
    Re: freight shipping a 440?
    « Reply #2 on: August 24, 2007 - 10:23:08 PM »
    thanks
    Logged
    70 Barracuda Gran Coupe,383-4bbl,# Match
    2012 Subaru Forester
    70 D100 Adventurer 383 pickup
    02 F250 S'cab Powerstroke 7.3 4x4 6 speed Manual
    06 Honda VTX1800S Spec 3

    Offline 67Vette427

    • Full Member
    • ***
    • Posts: 586
    • My other car is not a Rambler
    Re: freight shipping a 440?
    « Reply #3 on: August 26, 2007 - 02:34:38 PM »
    I used the freight center too. Pretty good. You need to make a pallet and crate it then its around $300.00 to ship.
    Logged
    1 of 1 Mr Norm's T/A/ 2015 Hellcat, sublime/ 13 Power Wagon

    Offline Top Banana

    • Jr. Member
    • **
    • Posts: 112
    Re: freight shipping a 440?
    « Reply #4 on: August 28, 2007 - 06:47:30 PM »
    Quote from: moparnut on August 24, 2007 - 09:45:36 PM
    Where the best place to get shipping rate?A guy in seattle wants to buy a 440 i have for sale and i am in central california.Is there also any sites that will give a rough idea how much it will cost him to ship an engine on a pallet?I dont want to go thru all the trouble palletizing it if he will say it too much to ship

    thanks

    I shipped a 440 short block from Atlanta to LA a couple of weeks ago via Forward Air (trucking line) for $263.  I was on an oak pallet.  Took 3 days.  :bananasmi
    Logged
    70 Challenger R/T 440 Convertible
    64 Impala SS Convertible
    72 BMW 3.0 CSL
    77 Porsche 911S

    Offline scf100

    • Full Member
    • ***
    • Posts: 795
    • FAST LANE FOREVER!
    Re: freight shipping a 440?
    « Reply #5 on: August 28, 2007 - 09:50:45 PM »
    I second Forward Air....never used them but have heard of a lot of folks shipping motors cheaply by them with good luck...
    Logged
    1970 Challenger R/T convertible 383…. 4-speed…3.91 suregrip

    Triple Black
    Pages: [1]
    « previous next »