Well Friday last week was awesome! I got the call from Intercity earlier in the week telling me they would be picking up my car at ERA in New Britiain, CT on Tuesday and planned to deliver it at the end of the week. I can tell you, despite waiting 20 months from the time I sent in my deposit check, the last few days when you know it's on the truck are the toughest!!! The Intercity driver texted me Thursday and told me he would be there around noon on Friday. Woohoo !!!! Friday morning, I cruise into work at my usual 6AM. I knew it was a semi light day at work and I should be home by 10 or 11. Forecast for the day was rain so I was a little bummed about the idea of unloading in the rain but at least for Kentucky in mid January, we weren't gonna be covered up in snow! Around 830, the driver calls me and says he's been looking at satellite images of my house and neighborhood and says he can't make it to my house because he's driving a full size tractor trailer with a double sleeper and oversized box trailer. Oh, and by the way, he's ahead of schedule and will probably be there around 11 !!!! Yikes, I quickly tied things up at work and headed out the door to a steady downpour. I had images in my head of pushing my car on the dollies a mile down the road in the pouring rain to get to my house. Not good !!! It all got better from there though. Within an hour I had borrowed a flat bed trailer, some tie-downs, and found a couple friends who were off work that day. The rain had quit and the sun actually started to come out. We met the driver about a mile and a half down the road from my house. I could understand why he couldn't make it to my house. He was in a huge truck.
He had some other cool cars on the truck. That GTR on the top was going to Hawaii. The Porsche he had to unload looked like it just came off the showroom floor. My car was under cover in the front. I got to go in and raise the cover. Wow, those Wimbledon White stripes seemed to glow even in the truck. We had quite a parade of vehicles spread out across about 3 driveways!
We soon had it transferred over to the trailer and the tie-downs on all ready to go. There were also 28 boxes including the ERA rear end which we loaded in the back of my truck. Back at my house we carefully unloaded everything.
ERA #813 was finally home!!
I guess it's time to start opening boxes and inventory everything!
The car is really amazing. I know why ERA is considered one of the best cobra replicas out there, and Connecticut Customs paintwork is phenomenal despite the wait. I'll try to post some better images as I learn more about taking pics and resizing them for optimal quality. The images above were just taken with my iphone and I kind of struggled trying to figure out how to get them into a post.
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