Jack aus Maine möchte mit seiner 66er C2 Europa bereisen - Tipps?

[Stingray77]

Hi Jack

I just spoke to Christian at Vanguard.
Firstly, what he needs to give any further info is the container-#. With that he will be able track down the box and verify the vessel (possible that the container gets reloaded) and along with that the ship's eta in BHV.

He already told me that it can/will take "some time" to take delivery of the car after the ship's arrival in BHV (unloading the vessel, rearranging, unloading the container, customs clearance - the whole lot...) - but he promised to name me people I/we can contact and who should be of help there (like i.e. his customs agent). But it's impossible to give a fixed date, yet - so please do not yet book your flight!

Then we spoke about customs - it WILL BE an issue to get customs accepting that you will not be IMPORTING your Vette to Europe but ship it back to the US at a later date... As said, your return-shipment-arrangements will come in handy there, but we are not sure, whether that will be enough "proof" for them. Christian promised to make some investigation there, too.

Can you say how your car was loaded? Your car only in a 20' container, or together with more cars in a 40'-box? Although a lot more pricey (therefore not too common) the 20'-variant would be of benefit, as there would not be the need of "employing" some company to unload the whole container just to get hold of your car.

See, there are some pitfalls. I'll try my best to work you around most of those. And Christian sounded like he wanted to support as good as possible... Let's cross our fingers.

Next step: please provide me the container-# and I will be in touch with Christian.

(Btw.: it appears that someone else - Herr Wahl? - already contacted Vanguard a couple of weeks ago... Your case already rang a bell, when I called... )

Best

Oliver