Imports
 

Cliff, Customs and Quarantine like any imports to be squeaky clean. Usually this means a steam clean at point of departure and again at port of entry. That said, one lot of parts I brought over were recommended to be sandblasted first! New Zealand does not have the same problems with spiders and snakes, but Quarantine thinks that Apple Fireblight grows on trucks.
You will also need an import permit application from DOTARS which will require as many identifiying numbers as possible. Then find a shipper who will ship a virtually empty 20' container for less than $1800 and you're on your way!
As Keith said, unless these trucks have some sentimental value, it might be easier (certainly cheaper) to find one here.

Re: Imports
 

Do either of you know where there is an early cab 11 Ford here that I can have?

LOL and you dare to show me a Cab 12 from Kingaroy LOL :note:

No I would not be using them as an investment more sentimental value I guess, but I think they are still worth saving.

As to finding them unless I told you where they are you would not find them. That is probably why they have sat there for the last 20 years.

Cheers
Cliff:note:salute:

Uhhhh Bill
 

Bill, how could you say such things! But the word of warning is quite appropriate. I have seen other Cab 11s here of course, the C8 Mike Kelly has, the C30 of Max Hedges, and one other which I have seen pictures of but can't say anything more on (it's not mine) and it's better than most cab 12s around...

Just in case, Keith,, remember the devils at the bottom. It was a joke in your case for sure but on the other hand........well, I have seen it happen although certainly not on this forum.
Cheers Mate
Bill

No worries, Bill
 

Yes, I took it as such!
This sort of thing has happened many times, although I haven't heard of anyone doing the "dirty" on another collector for a long time.

Human frailties, eh?

Keith:
I figured you got my drift.
A personal story, though.
In the mid 1980s, through a wierd set of circumstances, I made a ton of money for about six years. Had to do with the SAAB management in Sweden not understanding the then existing American market for "Yuppy-Mobiles". They offered the American management team a five year bonus scheme if we hit certain targets starting in 1981. The targets were modest, the payouts were, in the end, outrageous and I took every pence.

At that time I was enamoured of 1956 Ford pickups and panel trucks. I graduated our High School System in 1957 and every student who was someone had a 1956 Ford pickup (I was then living in a ranching town adjacent to a huge Marine Corps Base).
I, on the other hand had a 1937 Chev Coach and then a 1938 Olds Business Coupe both with very weak mechanicals.

I vowed that if I ever made any real money I would have not one but several variations of 1956 Ford Pickups and Panels.

As I was by the mid 1980s living in Connecticut, a place of salted roads and much rust, I started buying trucks out of my native California. I trusted one of my long time friends who was an Alfa fanatic to check out the trucks I found in various Auto Trader magazines that I had sent to me from California. Sorry, he was then living in California and also working for SAAB.

The long and the short of the story is that he culled through all the vehicles I suggested he check out and purchased some of the best bargains himself and passed on to me adequate but not great vehicles (4 in total). I had given him several names of other collectors in California to help him decide which vehicles were worthy of purchasing and one of them contacted me after a bit and brought me up to speed on the dodge. He was selling the trucks to these self same collectors.

As a side note, I still have two of the four I purchased, one here in Atlanta and one still on a friends farm in Connecticut. Both someday restoration projects.

While I was playing a bit of a joke on you, this chit does happen sometimes and it is often your best mates.
Cheers
Bill