shipping a truck
 

We are planning a trip from England to South Africa. We are planning on leaving the USA on July 1st for London and there we hope to purchase a vehicle (Landcruiser or Rover) and outfit it. If anyone can offer any help on this, please do, as we need it. We are not sure how much time we will need in London to do all of the necessary work purchasing, repairing and outfitting the truck, plus getting all the necessary documents. If you have done this and can give us an approximate time allowance, that will make our planning easier. One thought crossed our mind today which is, how possible might it be to buy the vehicle here in the states and ship it to England. Do you know anyone who has done this or, do you know how difficult the restrictions are?
We especially need info on how to get safely across from West Africa to East Africa. Do you know anyone who is currently doing this? thanks for your time

Hi

Have you checked the 4WD Forum? I note several vehicles for sale in there in the UK, one of which might suit your purposes.

LR110 for sale in England:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb...ML/000044.html

LR Discovery for sale in England:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb...ML/000029.html

Landrover Defender for sale - available to see in UK:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb...ML/000028.html

Good luck
Susan

Hi

there are frequent - roll on roll off type operations from the east coast to the uk (ie. not containerised transport)

If you contact me directly I can put you in touch with someone who has used this several times to ship vehicles UK-US so will have some information and experiences to pass on to you

Email address removed by Grant - see http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/ubb/faq.shtml#notify for why.

Cheers

Rich

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