Shipping / Auto Transport Companies: Any recommendations?

[MiataQuest]

Well, after much debate, I won't be shipping the car after all.

Flight is booked for Mossinee, WI for April 22nd. I'm going to venture through "Canuckistan" (that made me laugh, a lot, thank you KFJ) as it's the most direct route and avoids all the major US Cities. I've spoken with Canadian Customs and learned that a Maine Transit plate is 100% acceptable.

Just ran CarFax to be sure, and everything looks good on that end, too. Unicorn car, here I come!

Thanks for the input, all. I'll let you know how things shake down in April! -Matt

The last snow in southeast Michigan that they use road salt seems to be the week of the Detroit Tigers opening home game series. That is my signal to take the snow tires off the Audi 5000 Quattro and the wife's Blazer.
So April 22nd is a GO since it is after those dates!
Do you plan to enter Canada above the Great Lakes or through Detroit/Port Huron in Michigan?
We will be looking forward to pictures of the car and the trip.

[MLambert19]

That's encouraging!

Sault Ste. Marie via 75 is what Google Maps is showing me... That's headed East in the simplest line from Wausau, WI.

[— kung fu jesus —]

Mmmmm...Escanaba. Yoopers are a breed apart.

[mazdarati1]

M-28 across da U.P. is a great drive. Nice scenery on the west end with a few twisties,
and a 10-15 mile stretch of arrow straight road called the "Seney Flats" heavily patrolled though.
I was blasting through there a few years ago and a 928 Porsche flew past,
state boy got him a few miles up the road. 28 will run you all the way east to 75.

[rojeho]

Hey! Glad I found this thread. I pseudo-brokered this deal. The car belonged to the Dad of the husband of a friend of my wife. Got that? Post enough car pics on Facebook and your friends from all over the country will ask you if you know anyone looking for a car. We're in FL, car is in WI? No problem. A couple of internet posts and a couple of days and I find a dude in Maine who will buy it. Seems perfectly normal to me.

And oh yeah, at nearly the same time a friend in Omaha asks if we know anyone that wants a Miata. So I end up buying that one and having an internet forum friend drive it to FL by way of Deal's Gap. The internet is a crazy place.

[rojeho]

Actually, when I was first contacted I had pretty low expectations. Imagine my surprise to find out that the "I think it's a Miata" was a low mile, non-AC R package car......

[MLambert19]

40,500 miles before... 41,700 now.

I got home a day ago, overall had a great drive. I took Rt. 64 in WI to 41/35/2 in Michigan, then onward through Sault Ste. Marie to Canada 17. 17 is a beautiful drive, in fact, I have no gripes about any of it until I got East of Montreal and somehow missed I10. That led me on a wild-goose-chase through Quebec, where nothing is marked in English, the roads are crap, and nothing makes sense.

The handling on an R-car with the manual rack is nothing short of sublime. I can't wait to get the heavy TSW's and 16's off it and install some RPF1's and Direzza's. Tires have been ordered, this will likely happen before I find time to even get to the BMV and get it registered.

I think it was a good deal for both parties, and I sincerely thank rojeho for putting me in touch with the previous owner.

Now I just need to find someone looking for a turn-key FM2 Turbo '91 BRG...