In May 2018, I took the road trip over to Factory Five. I started the journey in Michigan which is where I had been doing all the donor work on weekends at my brother’s house. I was a co-op student with General Motors so I spent a 4 month spring rotation doing all the donor teardown items. My 818 build however, would be happening in Georgia. So this total road trip was 1800 miles Michigan-Massachusetts-Georgia and required some planning even before that to get my dad’s truck and trailer from Georgia to Michigan. I paid for a 1 way ticket for a friend to accompany me as a co-driver for the trip. I fit the entire donor parts pile in the bed of the truck- barely! The truck was certainly at max payload between the trailer and the load in the bed so I used a weight distributing hitch, even with a relatively light trailer load, so that the truck wouldn’t be so rear loaded.
A few days later, I had the kit and all the donor parts in Georgia ready to start to putting together!