1972 Cheyenne Super 20 on the way home
 

great news today for me,my 72 big block Cheyenne Super has FINALLY left Utah on it's journey to Nova Scotia.i bought this truck last year but with the border closed between Canada and the US,i couldn't go get it.the border is still closed and no telling for how long,so it's on it's way to Maine,then i'll have some fancy foot work to do with a border broker to get it over the line.once it's on the Canadian side,i can go get it with my other truck and trailer,however the border here between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is closed from a flare-up in covid cases.i need to drive across New Brunswick to get to the Canada/US border,so it's not over yet but at least it's heading east.can't wait to get my hands on it.

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Awesome! Best of luck to you.

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It’s been a long wait for sure. Hope everything goes well. Nice truck.

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Congrats,I am still waiting to get back to SC and check on my house and bring my 3 trucks home,damn covid

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Glad your getting closer to having it home .

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thank you sir.

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yes sir,it's been a battle but it'll all work out.lots of folks dealing with bigger stuff than this,so it'll be fine.

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thanks Mark.i have only seen this thing in pictures but bought a 71 big block longhorn from this same fella about 18 years ago so i knew i could trust his word.now i just need to get it home and see what the plan will be with it.1t's been in storage since 1997 so i'm sure it needs some TLC.
take care.Greg

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thank you sir.it's been a struggle.

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Congrats on finally making some forward progress on getting your hands on this little beauty.

I am so over this Covid-19 and lockdowns that haven't slowed this virus down.

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yes sir,thanks.it's been a chore getting this moving,several false alarms with carriers who promised but couldn't deliver.i didn't have a good feeling that it was going to get moving today but thankfully,i was wrong.normally i just go get whatever i've bought but everything shut down now at the Canada/US border for a year now and the closure just extended.i have to drive across New Brunswick to get to the US border and can't do that.the border right here between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is closed?but that shouldn't last too long i hope.at least if it's waiting for me at the Maine border,it's only 5 hours away,alot closer than Utah.there will be some updates as it gets closer to home.all the best.Greg

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:cong:

Good news :metal:

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Congrats Greg, it is finally headed in the right direction. A bit of progress in spite of the virus.
Hope you get your hands on it soon, it's been a lengthy process. You're a patient man!

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yes sir,great news.thanks.

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thanks Mike.they say if it easy,anybody could do it??i bought the truck with covid going on but the man said the truck could stay with him til whenever things were better.i did want it home but wasn't panicing about it til the man i bought it from said it had to go and i'm 3000 or whatever it is,miles away,trying to make something happen.anyway it's not home by a long shot but we're making progress.it's supposed to be in Calais,Maine on Tuesday.we'll see.all the best.Greg

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Awesome news!

I’ve been having to source a lot of parts from south of the border too instead of just coming across to get them, hopefully sometime soon things get better.

Things at Napa in the US are 1/3 of what they charge us in Canada!

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It's been a nightmare. I won't get into the politics but I live close to the WA border and usually use a mailbox service in Point Roberts. I get free shipping because it is the USA and I just pay sales tax to bring stuff in. UPS and FedEx have been surcharging me all year. You get a quote for shipping of say $50. You pay it and three weeks later you get a new bill for "extras" I can't wait to drive down like normal again.

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more progress to report,my truck made it today to the Maine/Canada border,so i don't have my hands on it yet,still haven't seen it,only pictures but at least it's getting close.5 or 6 hours away now.the customs broker is working on the paperwork.maybe soon i'll be able to report that it's made the last leg of it's 3000 mile journey home?

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Interesting and smart how you are doing the import as I've been thinking of doing the same thing and leaving the vehice at a inside storage warehouse I have used in the past until border opens or I pony up and pay the thief local carrier to bring it across for me as I'm 400 miles, day trip, away. Are you going to have to use another carrier to actually/physically get it over the border from Maine into NS ?

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nice truck, congratulations on the progress!

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Nice looking truck, I dig the mud flaps. Would love to see more pictures of it once you get your hands on it

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hi,nice to hear from you.my plan was to go get the truck as i've done 30 or 40 times over the last 40 years but covid messed this one up.i bought it with the understanding with the man i bought it from,that since i couldn't come get it,it would have to stay with him.that was no problem til mid febuary when he called to say it had to go by march 1st?so i was scrambling but then he backed off and said,no worries,we have some time but as time went on,we didn't have time.it had to go.i have an address in Calais,Maine where i ship car stuff to,so i called them to ask if i could send them a truck.no problem so that's where it is now.the plan was for a broker at the border to do the paperwork,then call a tow truck guy who lives right there at the border on the Canadian side,he can cross back and forth from Canada to the US as i guess they're essential,and drop it to me on the New Brunswick side where supposedly i could be there when it comes off the truck and put it on my trailer,and 5 hours,we're home,but then we have a big flare up in covid cases where we had been doing very well,Nova Scotia is shut down as of yesterday for 2 weeks and the border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is closed,since i have to drive across New Brunswick to get to the US border, i'm dead in the water.the paperwork at the border is being done,the truck is going to have to stay where it is in Calais,Maine and hopefully in 2 weeks,things will have calmed down enough that i can have the tow truck bring it over and i'll be able to be there to get it.if none of that works in 2 weeks,i guess it'll be back to the drawing board to come up with plan "B",whatever that is??thanks.Greg

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thanks Craig,so close and yet so far??it'll all work out,i'm sure.Greg

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thank you sir.there will be more pictures for sure,once it ever gets this far.i've only seen it pictures so i'm anxious to get my hands on it and see just how good it is,supposed to be very good,but we'll see.74,000 mile big block truck,built in Freemont,Ca.sold in City of Industry,CA and in storage since 1997.it ought to be a good one?hopefully in a couple weeks it'll finally make the last 5 hours home?
Greg

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Very cool truck and quite the story you'll have once you've got it home. Count me in on the pictures and write up of what you do to get it back on the road.

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Nice find! Worth the wait. Can't go wrong with a clean original ex camper hauler!

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thank you sir.this truck has quite a story and maybe once i actually have my hands on it,i may share some of that.you can count on some pictures.i have a thread started in the alternative tinkerings or whatever it's called,with some info on a 1939 Chrysler i'm building.no doubt there will be one on this truck too once it's here and we see what direction we go with it.it's going to be a survivor truck if it's good enough,and i think it is.we'll see??
take care.

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yes sir.i have had 4 of these trucks,now #5 sitting at the border.3 longhorns,2 regular long wheelbase 3/4 ton trucks.3 big blocks,2 350 trucks and too stoopid to be able to hang to at least one.that has now changed.this truck is going nowhere without me.i had a lady stop in at my old shop one day and said why are there 6 vehicles here?i said cause i don't have room for 12??made perfect sense to me?we have a new shop,lots of room.not selling anything else if i can help it.take care.Greg

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Thanks for the info. Did you ever think in your lifetime that you wouldn't be to cross from one Province to another whenever you wanted to. Unbeliable what this Covid thing is doing.

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Congrats! I know you will be stoked when the big truck comes rolling in.

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Hi,it sure is an aggrevation but it'll work out i'm sure and in the big scheme of things,this is not the end of the world,folks deal with cancer and all kinds of things that would make dragging an old truck home,look like a piece of cake,even with a few bumps in the road?sure it's annoying and you're right,who would've ever thought that in a place where you are free to come and go,do as you please,you'd be told to stay home?but that's where we're at.i figure things could always be worse,that truck will make it home,a 100 years from now,we'll look back and laugh?

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yes sir,can't wait to see it.it's hard to believe the way time flies,i first heard about this truck nearly a year ago.i wanted it but i thought it was out of reach.one thing lead to another,the guy i bought it from was too busy to advertize it so it sat some more,everytime i checked on it,he still had it,so eventually i made an offer on it,with covid going on and it was mine.here we are now with it sitting at the border on the U.S side,5 hours from home.hurry up and wait.it'll come together,i have no doubt.take care.Greg

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I like this. I have finally accepted that I will continue to buy and hold, like you're supposed to do with stocks. There's more to this mindset than meets the eye, and I don't have to justify it to anybody.

If you aren't too far from the province to province border, I wonder if you can go there and find out if they will pass the vehicle through by itself. Then all you need to do is find a forum member to pick it up from the broker and drive it across New Brunswick and hand it off. A long shot maybe, but not unheard of. Especially if you have some parts they need ;)

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hi,thanks.this little village i live in,Joggins,Nova Scotia is about 35 minutes or so from the New Brunswick border,then it's another 4 1/2 or 5 hours,give or take across New Brunswick to Calais at the Maine/New Brunswick border,where my truck is.it won't last long,maybe another week or 2 but right now, i can't get into NB,that border is closed and even though you can fire a rock across the bridge from Canada to the US,it might as well be a 1000 miles across that bridge.someone has to present the truck to US customs so they can verify the VIN before it leaves,then present all the paperwork to Canada customs.the broker doing my paperwork says they use a tow truck guy right there on the NB side,to go over,get the vehicle,stop at US,then Canada customs,then once on the CDN side,if i'm there.i get the truck,head for home.with everything shutdown,i can't get through NB ,and if i could,i can't get into the US,and the other side of the coin, someone from the US can't get to Canada.only essential travel is allowed,truckers,front line workers,people who live in NB and work in Maine,or live in Maine,work in NB can get back and forth but that's it.Calais,Maine and St Stephen,NB,the 2 little towns right there at the border have a deal in place for about 100 years where both fire services respond to fire,regardless of what side of the line,the fire may be at.i think there was something on the news a while ago,where the border folks were giving fire fighters going back and forth,a hard time??it shouldn't be so hard to get something done but right now,it seems to be with covid.my plan isn't all that difficult,if NB was open?it'll work out.i'm retired now but spent 35 years trucking and the last few years working for CAA,the Canadian version of AAA so i have lots of connections to the trucking and tow truck business.i let some folks know,if they had space or an empty truck near Calais,i'd pay for the space and get my truck here or closer?we'll get'er done.can't wait.

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Hi guys hope everybody is doing well.i wanted to give a little update regarding my 72 truck that had left Utah on April 24th heading to Maine,arrived in Maine at the Canada/US border on April 27th.the borders are all still closed and the truck is still in Maine.i had hoped it would be here long before this or I could go to Maine and get it but nothing is open.things are getting better quickly and on tonight's news,they announced that it was looking hopeful for the borders to re-open June 21st so we'll hurry up and wait, see what happens in the next couple of weeks. All the best.Greg

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Thanks for the update, Greg! I had been wondering.... Must feel a bit like a kid waiting for Christmas, seems to take forever to get here.

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I hope it does also,I would like to go see My family and bring home a couple of trucks that have been sitting in my yard since March 2020 in SC

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What an adventure. Just think, it's part of the story you can tell about the truck going forward.

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Hi Mike.just like Christmas, maybe worse cause at least you knew when Christmas was??.I have no idea when I'll finally get my hands on this truck,but nobody is sick,there's lots to eat and a big new shop to play in.if all I got from covid was a delay getting my truck home, I guess I'm lucky,lots of folks didn't fare so well. A 100 years from now,we'll look back at this and laugh.

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Yes sir,better days are coming.we'll get there. Take care.