Atlanta folks - transporting a non-running Zcar

Hi friends, follow up from the Z post from 310guy.. I found a 280Z that seems like a decent price just over challenge budget, in Decatur.

No title, but has key, hood/hatch and fenders look fairly clean, has seats. Been sitting 10 years. Has overspray through hood vents and on rear glass trim, and super flat tires.

My parents live on the Southside, Fayetteville/PTC area. I am hoping my dad can get eyes on the car tomorrow ("someone is coming tomorrow after work hours to buy it, they looked at it before"), but I'm not sure the best way to get the car from Decatur to the Southside without spendings an arm and a leg

Any ideas for getting something moved?

I'm not sure this deal will go through, but the Z has been a ten-year+ 

dream car and I know I'm getting priced out of the project market for them. 

Cheapest U-haul style daily rental for truck and trailer? Add 2 hammer store come-a-longs, a few tires with air that fit and an extra helper should go easy peasy. If brakes are stuck boards and cafe trays can help.

In reply to demnted :

Should have added - the Downside is I live 12 hours away, and I'm not really willing/able to ask my dad to do that kind of thing without me there/providing the labor, otherwise that is a good suggestion

Does your parents have AAA? That distance would be within their window. 

Sounds like a perfect GRM assist project. Maybe swap some folks in area parts or other to provide the labor with dad's supervision?

AAA will not transport a car without tags. I could possibly help your dad on February 13th, but will be in a rental car, not my truck. 

In reply to 03Panther :

But AAA doesn't know if their that car's tags. Just has to be wearing a valid tag at the time AAA arrives. 

I've used aaa, but am not in the habit of lying to people. True, my life is harder because I have ethics. 
Even harder to justify illegal tags on something that obviously has been an unfinished project for years. Although, in current times, the wrecker driver prolly doesn't care either. 

125$ hook fee. 2$ a mile, 33 miles.  191$ to move the car to PTC.

Is the car at an impound yard now? Can you have them deliver it for you? If its from a company, they have discounted tow fees. You can always ask...

In reply to demnted :

I've done the Uhaul and a single come along. Datsun 2000 roadster then a 240Z.   Pain in the butt but I was young. 

Z car I looked at this week?  I told the guy I'll need a flatbed.  I'm getting old.  

clownkiller said:

125$ hook fee. 2$ a mile, 33 miles.  191$ to move the car to PTC.

Is the car at an impound yard now? Can you have them deliver it for you? If its from a company, they have discounted tow fees. You can always ask...

This is probably my best bet, sadly. It is at a business, I don't think it's an Impound lot but going to talk to the guy again this morning. I will need my parents to get the right forms filled out by the PD to get it registered, so probably not a bad thing if it spends a few days at their house before I get down to it. I am nerv-cited!

Edit: looks like you're in the area, you don't happen to know/have a "preferred" tow company? Lol.

Surely there's a GRM member with a trailer and winch in the area. 

I think I am sadly going to pass on this.??

Still feeling conflicted obviously. It has been sitting behind this shop since 1998/99 and they didn't do any of the paperwork for Mechanic's lien or anything, so I'm not sure what the future paperwork would like. ~$2300 is still a lot for a project that might not have paperwork that will go through.
Front fenders look clean, rear quarters look clean, visible bubbling on the rear hatch (but not the bottom/trailing edge), couldn't pop the hatch to see how that area looks. Both floorboards have rust holes through, and passenger footwell has rust where it looks like the battery tray meets. The front air dam is destroyed and tires effectively don't hold air.

I think there have to be better examples with paperwork out there, if not many with less rust that I can afford.