How do you fit TWO upright basses into your car?

lowenduser · #1 04-09-2007, 07:51 AM

A friend of my father's contacted me to say his son was coming to Dublin for a few days (he's from the north of Ireland) and would it be a problem if he stayed over while here. Not a problem at all!!

He asked if it was a problem that we was a musician and that he's be bringing his instruments with him as he was doing some performance course here...... nope, no problem at all, that I played bass myself, and, on hearing he was a "bassist" I'd be more than happy to have someone I could "talk shop" with in the house.

Anyway, I turn up at the airport to pick him up........ and whey ho, out of the arrivals terminal comes my lodger with not one, but two huge double bass cases with him..... ahhhhhhh a bassist as in DOUBLE bass player.... that's cool. Cool until we got to my car. I drive a Renault Megane, which is big enough usually for me and my bass guitars, plus any gear (amps etc) but we struggled with these, and the 40 minute journey back to my house was nerve wrecking. He's gone travelling this weekend and is due back here tonight..... flying out Wednesday... I think Ill need some careful planning this time......

tzadik · #2 04-09-2007, 08:05 AM

DANG brotha! Who is this guy?! Traveling with TWO upright basses is nuts!

Spaz0405 · #3 04-09-2007, 11:43 AM

Ever Play Tetris?

millahh · #4 04-09-2007, 11:46 AM

On seeing the thread title, my first thought was "with a chiansaw". However, that's probably not a practical solution here...

JeffTheBig · #5 04-09-2007, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by millahh

On seeing the thread title, my first thought was "with a chiansaw". However, that's probably not a practical solution here...

i was thinking "with a hammer" haha

hartke20g · #6 04-09-2007, 03:54 PM

i was thinking chainsaw, too. but i'd say a 5 story building would do alright.

maybe find someone else with a bigger car who can take him places.

edit: i just looked up some Renault Meganes- they're pretty compact, especially when we're talking uprights.

lowenduser · #7 04-10-2007, 04:33 AM

He he!! Great suggestions....... I had my toolbox out on the kitchen table when he got in..... told him I was gonna "customise" his basses. He only realised what I meant when I got the hammer out....... How to put a look of horror on a bassist's face with a slight waving of a hammer in the general direction of his two big bass cases!!!!!

By the way, my car's one of the bigger models of Megane (below) but still way too small for one upright. forget about two PLUS travel bags!! I've managed to borrow a car-van thing off my brother, and we did a trial run last night and seems to resolve the transport issue back to the airport!!

Disco_Gee · #8 04-10-2007, 05:57 PM

Dude I couldn't even fit a single upright in my car. I have no idea how you managed it. I would suggest roof racks. Stick one on top and one inside. lol.

hartke20g · #9 04-11-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Disco_Gee

Dude I couldn't even fit a single upright in my car. I have no idea how you managed it. I would suggest roof racks. Stick one on top and one inside. lol.

that should put a look of horror on his face.

Bluesdog · #10 04-13-2007, 07:16 PM

I carried my double Bass in a mid size many times with a passenger also.

lay the passenger seat back and as far back as it will go and put the Bass in bottom upward so that the heel of the neck sits on the seat and the body is up the back and the neck is in space in the front foot well, there appears to be enough space for a second , although I would NEVER try it,

btw, the passenger get to sit behing the driver.

Uncle Ernie · #11 04-14-2007, 05:07 PM

And how did he get them on the aircraft? Checked them in?

SBassman · #12 04-14-2007, 05:12 PM

You may have broken some law of physics when you fit Both those basses in the car.

62Walnut · #13 04-14-2007, 06:22 PM

As long as was only laws of physics you broke! Well I'd love to have seen that. I'd have thought that a spacious estate would be the minimum required to get those in.

Walnut

Machinehead-man · #14 04-16-2007, 02:37 PM

You could get 4 in.

How?

2 in the front, 2 in the back.

AlphaMale · #15 04-16-2007, 07:43 PM

you throw those antique's in tthe trash and get two acoustic fretless basses.

lowenduser · #16 04-17-2007, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Bluesdog

lay the passenger seat back and as far back as it will go and put the Bass in bottom upward so that the heel of the neck sits on the seat and the body is up the back and the neck is in space in the front foot well, there appears to be enough space for a second , although I would NEVER try it,

That's what we more or less did, although the return journey to the airport was a bit more comfortable, having borrowed an estate car. Musician and basses have allegedly returned safely and in one piece! I didn't think of asking about the practicaties of flying with the two basses!