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If you have shipping the car togheter whit the spare parts and wheels those mustbe also write on the Bill of sale and the documents from the shipper for the customs , wich shipper have you used for the oversea shipping?have you not a Insurance on it? was the car ro/ro or into a container?
Simon

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Originally posted by Tomato Panscourer:
Hi all, Importing my first Pantera from the States to England .It went to the docks in New York on 7th April with a spare set of
re-furbished Campies and tyres and some other spare parts.On arrival in England the Campies are missing, never loaded.Any one have a contact/ info please???
Should get the car in a couple of weeks, cant wait, thanks in anticipation

Michael

I would report it to New York Police Dept and get a Police report.

thanks for your replies guys, bit of a quiet forum tho, I may well report it to the NYPD and see where we get.

Which docks did you go to in NY ... we ship from the NJ docks ... never knew there was a NY dock anymore.

Did you have insurance on the car and see if the Shipping co had insurance ... did you list the wheels and loose items on the bill of laden. Well make a claim on the insurance as they were stolen during shipping and Insurance Co. will investigate.

I would still get a police report from NYPD.

Ron

I regularly ship cars to Europe. Always list all items on the bill of ladeling and I suggest using a cable lock on items like spare wheels and whatever can be locked down.
Chances are, if you did not have the items listed so you would not have to pay import tax, you will not be covered by insurance.

And they cannot control by loading the car if everything is loaded .

Bought them with the car, so not dodging import tax but they werent noted on the shipping docs.The shipping info says NY docks, maybe the same as NJ??
In hindsight should have been a bit tighter on the paperwork , hey ho.
Thanks for your input, glad to see this is a functioning forum and look forward to being part of it.

Michael

FWIW, if the missing wheels were 7" and 8" Campagnolos, the 7s are cheap-like-dirt- maybe $50-$75 ea USD in unrestored condition, while the 8" are more- maybe $100-150 each. If there were optional 10" Campagnolos involved, they now list at $1500 or more EACH. Magnesium wheels can have chips and dents TIG-welded, remachined, annealed and otherwise restored to as-new by vendors or at home, depending on how well equipped you are. Good luck with the new toy.

are the wheels shipped inside the car or outside the car ?
Loaded into Container or Ro/RO ?
By shipping Ro/Ro its mostly not alowed to put spare parts or wheels into the car.
By shipping seperatly by the car into a container , it must be registrated on the bill of sale ,by sample ; 1 car , wheels and spare parts and a total price.Also it must be discribed on the loading papers.
Simon

ACCOBRA, this is off topic , but I found an old post of yours where you mentioned that you had one of the Kelly coffeld cast C302b weber manifolds for sale. I know it's a long shot but do you still have this for sale? I am trying to build a stack EFI set up for C302B heads.

On the subject of the missing wheels I'm sorry to say you can be 99.9% sure you have seen the last of them. When I looked into shipping a car to europe they warned against leaving ANYTHING in the car. The docks are infamous for crime and organized crime. Someone probably thought they were valuable (when they saw the beautiful exotic Pantera, and snatched them. The good news is they are easily replaced (unless the were the 10" wide ones which seems unlikely sine the picture of your car (if it's the one you shipped is a narrow body) Chalk this one up to a learning experience, and if there is a next time ship any extras or parts separately in a sealed package and itemized as well as insured. As a New Yorker I'm sorry you had a bad experience here. Most old campys are in dire need of restoration and if you are planing on upgrading your brakes (or if the car already has upgraded brakes the stock campys won't fit anymore. That's one reason the market is flooded with used Campy wheels. Well good luck I hope the rest of your experience is all positive and I know you will enjoy the car. Welcome to the forum! You should also check out the Pantera "big list" It is more in the format of a blog . The address is" detomaso@poca.coms "

Here is a link that explains signing up. ""It's free" and just like this forum you will meet a lot of great people who are always ready, willing and able to help another Pantera owners or even just someone interested in Detomaso automobiles. There are members all over he world
Here is the link "
http://poca.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso_poca.com " Good luck and welcome,
Boyd

You live and learn, it was a mistake that the campo's were loaded in the first place. I guess i'm lucky the cat had the Boyd Coddington wheels fitted for shipping(much shinier)
Thanks , once again for all the info and advice