Adventures in Packing and Shipping: Vintage Car Auctions and Shipping

Steve McQueen Drives Porsche

Vintage Porsche Racing Poster

Hello and welcome to our next feature on adventures in packing and shipping here in Las Vegas out of our warehouse of rare and unique finds. You would think that making boxes and custom wooden crates would not be very exciting, but we are going to feature what is going inside of these special packages because the stuff that flies across our storehouse floors is pretty amazing.

Porsche is celebrating 70 years and we just happened to come across a major rare vintage collection won from an Auction. These are one of a kind and rare Porsche car finds include Steve McQueen James Dean and other interesting treasures.

Much of this cargo might be small but that means delicate and fragile items to pack and ship as well. And with some of them being one of a kind finds our car aficionados will be hard pressed to find any replacement parts.

Sometimes shipping the larger heavier bulkier items are actually easier as we just size up the dimensions, build the custom wooden crate for the engine, and then ship it off.

Car engine parts and shipping requires a lot of extra support in the structure of the boxes and freight crates that we build, but that is often not the problem. The small delicate things that require a professional white glove touch often needs the attention to detail that cannot be overlooked.

Back to the fun stuff about Steve McQueen and Vintage Porsche Collectibles.

Vintage Porsche Posters

James Dean

Hollywood legend James Dean died as everyone knows young and reckless, crashing his Porsche 550 Spyder on Sept. 30, 1955. More than fifty years later Dean, his image and the few movies he made are far from forgotten, and the mystery of his supposedly “cursed” Porsche is as intriguing as ever.

Purportedly, Dean had been given the nickname "Little Bastard"

by a Warner Bros. stunt driver named Bill Hickman whom Dean befriended. Hickman was part of Dean's group driving to the Salinas Road Races on September 30, 1955. Hickman says he called Dean "little bastard", and Dean called Hickman "big bastard." Another story of the "Little Bastard" origin goes – corroborated by two of Dean's close friends, Phil Stern and Lew Bracker – is that Warner Bros. president Jack L. Warner had once referred to Dean as a little bastard after he refused to vacate his temporary East of Eden trailer on the studio's lot. And Dean wanted to get "even" with Warner by naming his race car "Little Bastard" and defiantly show that despite the racing ban during all filming, Dean would be racing the "Little Bastard" in between projects. When Dean introduced himself to British actor Alec Guinness outside the Villa Capri restaurant in Hollywood, he asked him to take a look at the Spyder. Guinness thought the car appeared "sinister" and told Dean: "If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week." This encounter took place on September 23, 1955, seven days before Dean's death

Vintage car statues and collectibles such as these are often won at auctions

and then it is up to us to figure out ways to safely package and ship without breaking or damaging the item. Thankfully we have an expert team that is dialed on for fun projects such as this and they will custom create shipping boxes and crates out of wood and other materials specifically for jobs such as this. Often times we do insulate the inner side of the container which protects against shock, heat, cold, wind, rain, and any ill-fated malady that may befall your exotic cargo.

Porsche Sebring 1968 Vintage race poster

Grote Prijs Van Netherlands Porsche Race

Vintage Porsche Art such as these are often one of a kind and need special shipping methods and storage specifically for art. We here at Las Vegas Crating and Logistics have a specialized team specifically for such cases that come to our warehouse.

Vintage Porsche Car Motor and Parts

Next comes the heavy stuff ! Specialized pallets and crates had to be built and constructed to ship these car parts and motors. We do full motorcycles to exotic racing car parts and engines. Our guys welcome the challenge and always look forward to working with all of these beautiful industrial pieces. Here are some photo's of various stages of the shipping process and the fun we had with these Porsche motor's and engine parts from the ground up.