The car needed to go from Seattle, Washington to Scottsdale, Arizona and a lot of options are available for transportation. The hard part is a ton of cars are heading to Arizona for this week (Barrett is selling 1,400 cars themselves which doesn’t include all of the cars at Russo and Steele, RM, Gooding, Silver, etc) so it makes transportation very expensive.  You also have to send the car in an enclosed trailer. With the bad January weather across the country transporting it in an open hauler is just a bad idea especially after spending all the time detailing and cleaning up the vehicle. Since I was hoping to go to Barrett Jackson and the Arizona auctions anyways I decided to just transport the car down myself (with the added bonus of covering the auctions for Mopar Blog!).

This simplified getting the car down there greatly by not having to rely upon somebody else to get the car down there at a certain point. We decided to try to get the car to Scottsdale by Jan covering them for Mopar Blog!).

This simplified getting the car down there greatly by not having to rely upon somebody else to get the car down there at a certain point. We decided to try to get the car to Scottsdale by January 11^th so I left Olympia, Washington on the 9^th and drove the 24 hours to Scottsdale and got there the morning of the 11^th. I was towing it down with my 1998 Dodge Ram Diesel and lost 5^th gear in the transmission somewhere in Oregon. Without overdrive I couldn’t go over 60 MPH after this and it was a VERY long trip!

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The check in process was very easy.  We got the car unloaded in the street in front of the check in area and since the car was already registered we went right by the front gate into the check in area.  They even have a lot to store the trailer so I won’t have to have it hooked to my truck all week running around the Scottsdale.  Once we got into line I did one last clean up on the car using Meguiar’s Final Detail spray, a little glass cleaner for the chrome, and took out all the personal stuff (the car got a little wet up in Seattle loading the car into the trailer so we had to clean it up a little).  Barrett Jackson’s people put the lot number on the windshield, take two sets of keys and they put it in the tent themselves.

Some other things we did to prep the car is have a flier to hand out with info on the car and make up a big sign board with a fender tag decode on it to help people with interest in the car.  The car goes up on Wednesday night on Fox Business Channel, let us know if you are going to watch!  It is lot number 501.  What do you think it’s going to sell for?

Below is the tow rig for the trip parked in the Barrett Jackson trailer storage lot.