Depending on the cost of the airline ticket and the cost of gas to drive it home, or the cost to drive a truck and trailer to the location and back home, I would look at having a transport company pick up and deliver the X. With the virus still going around there are many independent truckers that can perform this task.

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Great suggestion, thanks for the link.

At just 5 hours away, if it were me, I'd grab a friend and drive there in your '59 FIAT. What could possibly go wrong? :D If anything does, one could tow the other home.

My first car was a '79 FIAT Spider, and I remember back in the day I drove that thing deep into Mexico once or twice ... with no problems other than getting stuck in the sand on a beach. :bustingup Those were the days.

Nice that you got the price down. Hopefully it works out well for you. :thumbup:

I may drive down in a “chase car” with someone else and a stack of tools - just in case... seems a gamble to drive it 4+ hours with timing codes and potentially do more “damage” than good to it. Chase car would give you the benefit of two additional hands and a warm car to take a break in if you did have any type of failure along the route home. I know it makes for 8+ hours of driving..., but what’s piece of mind worth [emoji106]

Nice snag by the way - now all you have to do is post pics when you have it home.


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3k really sounds like a steal of a deal.

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Thought about doing it that way. But, thinking I will just take my truck and trailer down there to play it safe. Will post pics once I make it happen next weekend.

That’s the right way to do it for sure [emoji106]

Then you can get it back to your neck of the woods where you can get to know not better before relying on it to go any significant distance. - Good call! (and you won’t have to wonder if you have the right tools of the improbable happened to happen)


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Amazing deal!

Definitely trailer, or have it shipped (had my perfect running 4.6 shipped from CO to TX for just over $700). Timing code and startup rattle is very likely timing guides. My 540 did the same thing when the center (V-guide) went, sounded normal when idling and under load but horrible rattle on startup and threw timing codes instantly.

You can check the state of the guides with a fiber optic camera through the oil fill port.