Loki wrote:
Yep sure did. Saw some of the cars they "deck shipped" glad mine wasn't one of them. Amazing how fast a car can rust exposed to the salt air. At the time we had to have it registered right there. When they finally got to mine and opened the hood everybody ran over, a V8 was rare at the time. I remember they wanted to get the VIN number by putting a piece of paper over the number and rubbing a pencil over the raised numbers. Couldn't get close enough not a lot of room in the engine. I showed them the VIN in the windshield and they tried to do the same thing. Funniest thing I ever saw watching them trying to do that. Then having to take the paper inside to actually register the vehicle. Lines weren't the norm it is just push and shove to get to the window. Also made the mistake of shipping my CB installed, didn't know it was illegal at the time. Nice thing was before I shipped it out of New Jersey I had to have all the Catalytic equipment removed. That was another reason I sold it in country when I left didn't want to hassle getting it back to the US. I really enjoyed driving that car.
ha ha, yep, I remember they removed the catalytic converter. No unleaded gas over there.
Did they take your CB away from you? I am a ham radio operator. I was a little concerned that I was going to a country that I could not operate my ham radio, but just after receiving my orders for Greece, the United States signe what is called a "reciprocal agreement" with Greece. What that meant is that I could get a Greek ham radio callsign, which I eventually did, SV0AM. So when I was going to Greece, I stopped at a ham radio store in Las Vegas and bought a brand spanking new HF transceiver. If I recall, it cost me about $700.
So I used that transceiver mobile while driving to New York to the port. Then I took it out and hand carried the thing to Athens on the airplane. That sucker was heavy and by the time I got to Athens, my arm was dragging.
So I go through customs and they promptly confiscated my radio, telling me that it was illegal to bring any radio that transmitted into the country. I was in shock! I'd just paid $700 for the dang thing and they took it from me. I think I was told that they would send it to the scrap yard and destroy it after like 30 days.. Anyway, I finally had to get a Greek ham radio operator to go to the airport and retrieve my radio, since he had a license to use it. A few months later, I got my liGreek license and had a blast operating ham radio from Greece and the Dodecanese Islands.
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I'll try to get some Pic when I am up there.
