I'm going way out on a limb here ..however....
Let's badger the crap out of Greg until he submits to getting his 20 plus year speedster project here and I will get D O N E for a reasonable fare . Needs to get from Florida to Pennsylvania.
.........Hey Greg tow it here and visit the old neighborhood in Virginia....I wonder how many pages this thread will run ?
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Oh man. This is like an 'intervention'.
Greg - we're all here because we love you and we don't want to see you (or your speedster) get hurt. We've brought a Dr. who knows about these things.
Please seek help.
Your friend & Brother in a black cmc speedster,
Ted
Do it Greg!
C'mon, you know he reeeeeally doesn't want it finished. Greg's just a poser and really can't drive a stick shift. I think he really wants Vince's rainbow-colored Miata, automatic of course. I'll believe he's a real Speedster guy when he drives up in his.
(Shhh... Do you think that worked?)
Greg;
Here you go....
Ditto. I'll help. (Or watch from the wings and say snide things).
Go Greg!
The way I would consider this job as a "filler" ( unless I get booked up) between my speedster projects and other owner's speedster repairs I now will do since retiring.
Greg, Dr. Clock is making an 'offer you can't refuse!' Ya better take it.
Greg, I am in the same situation as you, have an unfinished CMC widebody for several years. I contacted Dr Clock last year about him finishing mine up, if you don't take his offer I may have to fill his "filler" spot. tick - tick - tick.
Gary
another unfinished CMC guy
Greg will never do this!
I say we go down and steal it. I am in Tallahassee now and have two free days to put this heist together "Ocean Eleven " style.
Who's in?
Bill a tow bar will work..matter of fact Greg has one that he dragged it from Va to Fl. :~)
Bill, I'm in on the heist. I've been planning a trip to FLA in the winter for a while now, and would run it with this heist as the central theme. An "intervention" -- might work. And yes, Greg may never do this, BUT WE CAN!!! It's just logistics, and not that complicated at that. A truck, a tow bar, and we're on the road.
When do we start??
Yes, when this gets legs, somebody will need to be recording video. Velocity channel runs this sort of thing all the time . . .
Greg,
Apparently the motivational CD's we awarded you at the Carlisle awards dinner are not working, Dr. Clock is your answer to acquiring a SEG.
I have a black turtleneck. Ready for heisting.
Sounds like a great project for the Mid-Atlantic Speedstah Intervention Group.
I might be enticed to go along as Videographer - "Have cam-corder, will travel" (got the black turtleneck, too)
Oh, and I know where most of the speed traps are on I-95, too.
Ahhh... I have heard from our Florida buddy Greg, .....stand by :~)
Hurry up Greg, don't make me slide from 2nd position to the 1st position..... 
Gary
Again I say: WE CAN DO THIS. Whatever it takes. I am standing by to help. Might even be talked into taking a trip to FL to pick up that bad boy. The car and its parts I mean.
Greg and I are currently at the table so to speak...
Kelly, a lot of gas round trip 2,000 miles, With about 3,000,000 miles and 43 years of trucking under my belt & just retired from that, I can surely tell you I don't have that trip on My Wish List... Someone like yourself that would do as a novelty trip would enjoy it.
Geez, dude - that's like, 70,000 miles per year!
Maybe you could do something like a relay.
Someone local to Greg picks it up in Florida and gets it to, say, Georgia, where someone else on here gets it and moves it to, say, South Carolina and so on til it finally (God knows, it may be weeks later) arrives in Chambersburg, PA (where-ever-the-hell THAT is) and the good Doktor does his magic to it, and then Greg can fly into Chambersburg Inter-Galactic Airport, take a White Stretched Limo to Merklin's "Casa della Speedsters" to pick it up (after the requisite shake-a-down cruise to Shake's, or where-ever).
Once that is done, he can make a triumphant, two-or-three-day drive down the Atlantic coast, getting progressively sunburned til he gets his beautifully completed Speedster back to his home garage, whereupon he can clean it, and wax it and love it to bits. (or, just sit in the garage looking at it like some of us do...)
And drive it....occasionally. Like to Sonic on Sundays for a Chili Cheese Coney Dog.....or two!
Go Greg!
Make it happen, boys!
Gordon, your idea of a relay sounds intriguing, to say the least. Lots of logistics there, and I believe we have the runners, so to speak, sprinkled along the way to make it happen.
In any event, Greg/Alan, keep us posted on the negotiations. Again I say: I'm here to help, so just say how that would apply here.
We're stopping in the pan handle on the way home from Venice to visit relatives in early April in my Tundra with the trailer hitch. I was planning to look up the Wolfman while passing through.. We can drop it in Pa. on the way by. It would already be close to Carlisle...jus' sayin'.
I know Greg towed it to Florida with a tow bar so it would be doable. However, no way would I get it done in time for Carlisle. Guess we can consider that as a back up plan for a June/July project.
Yeah, let's imagine that somehow, this gets in the barn in time to make it out of the barn for Carlisle, at least.
Still standing by . . .
That would be having it arrive here no later than Turkey Day weekend.
U Ship may be the best way of doing this ....
Secondly:
My thoughts ( 2" ball tow bar with flat 4 plug)
Greg drags it to Atlanta.
2nd it to somewhere around Knoxville
3rd on into Rt 81 in the mid Va. area
Then final leg to Chambersburg PA
Who has the truck?? If anybody around here, then we could manage the mid VA to Chambersburg leg, easy-peasy. I have a hitch on my Mazda 6, allegedly good for 2,000 lb, but that seems a little ambitious.
CMC Speedster weights about 1,500
Walton Beach Fl to Atlanta Ga 323 mi. 5 1/4 hrs.
Atlanta Ga. to Knoxville Tn 215 3 1/4
Knoxville Tn to Lexington Va 299 4 1/2
Lexington Va to Chambersburg Pa 190 3
Yup flat towed it South 980 miles from Springfield VA with a 4 cyl automatic 2003 Toyota Camry. No issues at all - in NC I turned off overdrive as trans was hunting on the continuous rolling hills on I85. Really hard to average much more than 55 mph with gas/pit stops plus butt cramps after 8 hours behind the wheel. That makes it a 16-20 hr drive - 2 days up and 2 days back. V6 4Runner gets maybe ~16 mph towing so $300 in gas.
I have rebuilt many cars in past (2 '59/60 AH bugeyes, '65 TR Spitfire, '69 MGC, '63 VW bus/'72 bus, '92 914, '63 Knotchback 356, '75 Audi. All seemed to take more than 40 hours so not sure why Speedster has me stymied. Current excuses are: son finally moved out to his own house (after he pays dad back) - it was a vacant 9+ months short sale that needs work, and my 2nd condo renter (a true hoarder) of near 3 years left in night with what she could fit in her car saying do what you want with trash left in 3 BR unit! Wife and I spent last 25 days clearing it out.
I have always looked at sports cars as a hobby - to work on (necessitated by having British ones!) and driving them. Just hate to give up on it though. Little voice (wife) says move on to new Miata or slightly used ('06-11) MB SLK 350 - even got ok for new Boxster/911. Of course I have lots of Speedie spares (2 trans/4 engines) and non-running dune buggy to contend with too. SO that's dilemma! With 4 year retirement you'd think progress would have been made (did build new 30x40' barn).
As they say, "It's time to $h!t or get off the pot!"
Sorry to hear about the hoarder leaving you with a pile of crap to deal with. That's shameful for that person to up and leave like that.
About the speedster...
I'd suggest going with something you're comfortable with. A boxster? 911? SLK? Meh. You're part of the core fiber around here. The site wouldn't be the same without you input.
I'd love to see you're mug behind the wheel of your completed speedster.
How are we gonna get this horse in the barn?
Ted
Well, if that old rag Toyota automatic could carry the load, my V6 5 spd Mazda 6 ought to be able to do it too. As I said, I have a hitch.
Ready and willing to help. Just need some direction.
"Just need some direction."
Head southwest.
Greg, why don't you just sell it to the Dr?
Then you can move on and get what you'd enjoy driving...
