Renting a car hauler

[scottsbro23]

While on vacation I bought my Grandfathers 66' Chevy c-10, in May I'm planning to haul it from Alabama to Texas. U-haul quoted me $475.00 for a car hauler trailer 1-way. Anybody know of cheaper? The car dolly was $375.00 (lol). I want to use a full trailer, no dolly.

[TOK]

Aboslutely no help for you, but my dad has a 66 Stepside. Straight 6 (250?) w/3 on the tree. Very cool looking truck. His needs a lot of love in the cosmetic's department, but it runs great and has been in the family since brand new.

[Sammy Sandbag]

Can't help you on the price, but do make sure it can handle the weight. Most of the uhaul car trailers and dollys have a very limited max weight. I was looking at getting a K5 blazer and towing it from SC to AL, but it was too heavy for any of the uhaul trailers. I checked online to see their limitations.

[Titan4x4Aggie]

for $475 you'd think you could put down a nice down-payment to buy one.

i'm sure it would come in handy more than once also.

[DCtitan]

i know that for like one way this company that a friend of mine uses called colianal carriers i think will charge upward of 2500 dollars for them to carry your car becuase my dad has to antique chryslers like early 70's ones and he has a car trailer that is enclosed but most of the people at the show that goes to in hershey PA use colonial carrier

[JefeCinco]

If the old truck is a stick shift the dolly will tow it beautifully. I use a dolly to tow my car behind the motorhome and it works like a charm. Why throw away an extra $100?

[scotty]

Just saw an ad today for a NEW tow dolly for $800. Alhough it would take a lot of gas to get it to you from here in Iowa.

[Bayou Titan]

That price seems expensive. I rented an auto transport from Uhaul two-way a couple of months ago to haul a '56 Chevy with my Titan and cost less than half that. (See the attached contract)

If the truck you are picking up hasn't been driven in a long time I would suggest getting a transport. The tires could be dry rotted and could blow out and that would not be a good on a tow dolly. Another couple of tips. If the truck cannot be started be sure to take a boat trailer type winch with you. It is almost impossible to push a car up the transport ramps and a come-a-long or power pull takes forever since it can only pull two or three feet at a time then you have reposition it. The boat type winch will have 20 or so feet of cable on it and the UHaul transport has a place where you can temporarily attach it with a bolt. Also take a can of Fix-a-Flat and a portable air compressor to air the tires.

[scottsbro23]

Thanks a ton fellas, Bayou I'll be sure to check on 2-way instead of one way.
When u-haul gave me the quote it was for 4-days, I'm not pullin' it with a yugo, I'll only need 2 days max. (I'm takin my brother in law)