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No I won't come to purchase the car. I contacted a transport company over here in Rotterdam harbor, and if I find a car I like, he can sent one of his usa agents to check / pay / ship the car.

But thanks for the info !

Originally Posted by Dutchy

No I won't come to purchase the car. I contacted a transport company over here in Rotterdam harbor, and if I find a car I like, he can sent one of his usa agents to check / pay / ship the car.

But thanks for the info !

That's a frightening idea!!

If you can afford it time and money, I really have to suggest that you make a trip to the US to do your car search. There are a lot of disreputable people selling the type of car you posted above. A transport company agent would have to be a special kind of car nut not to be cheated. What you could do is when most of Europe goes on holiday in July/August, make a trip here to one of the NSRA or Goodguys big car shows. KLM/Northwest fly into Detroit and Minneapolis daily from Schipol. While it's a fairly long trip anywhere in the US from there, it might end up being the best and in the end, the cheapest way.

As far as your English, it's fine and we'll help you with the technical stuff. What I've learned from business associates and my travel in the Netherlands is that almost all there speak Dutch and English as well as a "foreign" language

Welcome to CHR. Just the other day a nice Challenger was up for sale, but maybe a little high for the budget mentioned!

Originally Posted by IC2

That's a frightening idea!!

If you can afford it time and money, I really have to suggest that you make a trip to the US to do your car search. There are a lot of disreputable people selling the type of car you posted above. A transport company agent would have to be a special kind of car nut not to be cheated. What you could do is when most of Europe goes on holiday in July/August, make a trip here to one of the NSRA or Goodguys big car shows. KLM/Northwest fly into Detroit and Minneapolis daily from Schipol. While it's a fairly long trip anywhere in the US from there, it might end up being the best and in the end, the cheapest way.

As far as your English, it's fine and we'll help you with the technical stuff. What I've learned from business associates and my travel in the Netherlands is that almost all there speak Dutch and English as well as a "foreign" language

If I fly to the USA and don't find 'my' car it's sin of the money. I don't have the money to buy me a ticket. If I do, my budget reduces. I saved a long time to get me the budget I have right now. I'm not rich and we still have economical crisis over here..
Besides, my girlfriend is pregnant of our first child and is callculated to give birth at the end of August
I just hope to have some luck with the purchase. And the agent is specialiced in cars so I hope he will notice if he will be cheated.
And I already met some divorced wifes selling their husbands car, or live abroad and the car is at their friends place, or only can be shipped by escrow company and I also already met sellers who for example painted engine to look good on pics (with overspray on hoses etc)
There are a lot unreliable sellers around..
But I mostly search at forums / clubs and cardealers. Hoping that there will be more fair fellows..

If you guys know some websites like oldride.com / classiccars.com / autotraderclassics.com or other websites where I can search for hotrods and custom classics please let me know !


About the languages.. English is required for all of us at school. Because english is a world language. Besides english we may choose one or more forein languages. I picked german and french.
I can speak and write german very well (also grandma was from germany), but can't make a correct sentence in french.. But school was a long timeago.
The refugees and applicants who come from Africa and Arabie to the Netherlands all learn english instead of dutch ! Something very annoying..
And we get a lot of them
If you have for example a shop in Amsterdam you have to speak english very well because half of the customers do..

Yesterday 10:34 AM
stovens Welcome to CHR. Just the other day a nice Challenger was up for sale, but maybe a little high for the budget mentioned!

I like the Challenger, but a neat one is much too expensive for me.
Now raised my budget to 12K. Bits by bits it will increase..