Bought a 30-31 A roadster body in 2000.

About 50% down, 4 months later when it was ready to ship, the remainder was paid.

Use your credit card so you have some recourse if something happens along the way.

The trucking company likes to deliver to commercial addresses so if you have a friend who owns business, have it delivered there.

Mine was delivered to my house and the trucking company was supposed to have a lift gate, but didn't.

We went four miles to my pal's muffler shop and two of us slid the crate off the truck onto the muff shop lift.

I ran back home, hooked up my 6' x 10' utility trailer with drop ramp, went back to the shop and two of us slid the crate into the trailer.

The muff shop ramp sure made life easy with both the tall truck trailer and my much lower utility trailer.

Once home, I used an old sailboat block and tackle to pull the crate as far off the trailer as I could and once it was started downhill, doing the rest by myself was easy.

Delivering to a business can save a few bucks on freight.
I did that with the re-pro 32 frame rails.
Left my pal a couple hundred in cash, he paid the freight and gave me the change.

Be sure and inspect the body for shipping damage as soon as you can.

I had a couple of dings and after a few phone calls, the trucking company sent a check for repairs.

I'm guessing the bodies are seldom damaged, but someone at Brookville forgot to put bolts in a couple of the wooden crate locations and the body shifted in transit.