Anyone in the northeast USA getting a container from TTR

[tvacc]

Hi all,

I am interested in buying a roll cage from Tony Thompson Racing and the cost of shipping it by itself will be very expensive. Is anyone getting a crate or a container to the North East USA or southern Ontario that I could tag along with my cage? I am in Buffalo NY.

email me at tvacc*at*lotusowners*dot* you know where.

Regards,
Tony Vaccaro
http://www.lotusowners.com

[elanfan1]

Contact Tony Thompson he should be able to tell you what/who has an order placed, he doesn't do Elans exclusively so you could miss someone just relying on a post on here.

Good luck

[1owner69Elan]

I have bought a lot of items from TTR with them being delivered to California. Some of these items were large and unwieldly.

These never were delivered by container.

I found the shipping costs to be based more on weight. They were delivered in just a few days. Actually faster than the US suppliers. At what I thought were reasonable prices.

Did you get an actual shipping quote from Stuart at TTR or just assuming it?s got to be expensive?

[tvacc]

They were very nice to deal with. Shipping this roll cage just was a little more than I wanted to pay. Basically it was almost the same cost as the cage. Same thing happened back in 95 when I had the roll cage shipped from Caterham for my 93 Caterham. Cage was $750 as was the shipping!

As I work with the Caterham dealer here in the northeast, I am just going to ship it with the next car that we get in for a customer. As it happens I just got word this morning that one will be shipping the beginning of May so i will use that box.

When I said container, I meant box.

[1owner69Elan]

Glad you have a good solution.

I agree that having shipping be the same as the part cost is hard to swallow.

[zog]

Tony,

I know a local guy (Evanston Illinois) who is pulling a full Spyder cage out of his Elan coupe. You could probably pick it up cheap....

[tvacc]

Please email me his contact information to tvacc*at*lotusowners*dot*com
Or give my info to him. My brother lives in Louisville, not to far from him. Maybe we can do something.

Thanks

Tony V