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Old 10-09-2009, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Gunner View Post
So the car will definitely be here tomorrow - I talked to the driver and he gave me his route and ETA.

Now I have the problem of "the last mile" - the transportation company sent it on a monster 90' carrier instead of one of the small carriers that would fit on my street. So I have to find a place for a full-size carrier to drop two cars (one's in the way of mine). Then I have to drive it home, hopefully over the smallest streets possible. (No plates or registration, ya see...)

So I find a cooool solution: an apartment complex backs up to one end of my street and has a huge (30') service gate that opens there. There's a street big enough for a semi to park on the other side. So he parks there, drops the car, I scoot in their gate, through the complex, out the back gate, and it's a block to my warm, safe driveway, waving to my astonished neighbors.

So I call the complex manager. She's polite and sort of helpful, but has *no* idea what gate I'm talking about. I describe it. I describe walking down my street, hopping that fence and walking to their office. I narrate a little tour as I'm looking at Google Earth on a 24" screen. I patiently describe the location of the gate relative to their front gate, pool, etc.

I am standing on my porch looking down the street at it. I tell her this.

She knows of no such gate.

I give up. I will scoff, scoff, scoff at the laws and drive home on residential streets instead.
Congrats!! You should drive it. I thought you could fall back on the "20 day rule." The chassis number is great...like a jet!
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