“While the UK is on lockdown from Coronavirus measures, I thought I would take a look back through the history of our company. I hope all of our clients, staff, friends and families are well and stay safe during these difficult times”

Nick Roach – Company Director

Chapter 1 – The Beginning

ShipMyCar’s roots can be traced back to a valeting company, set up initially to fund a road trip to the USA. Little did we know this would be the start of an exciting journey that would map out our future working careers!

Myself and Kingsley had already known each other for many years, having grown up almost on the same street and going to the same school in Aylesbury, Bucks.

We both went to different universities, I went up north to Lancaster and Kingsley out east to Norwich.

After graduating we decided that rather go straight into employment we would set up a small business cleaning cars in order to fund a year out, and go on a road trip across America.

R&R Auto Valet was our business name (Roach & Read), yet trying to find a domain name to match was proving difficult. After spending days trying every variation of R-and-R, we stumbled across cleanmycar.com – it was available, and said exactly what we wanted.

Heading out across the home counties we visited clients at home or at work, but this was no ordinary van, inside was a giant water tank that was capable of flooding the likes of Tring high street if it failed (yep, that happened) along with pressure washers, mobile generators and an easy-up canopy.

We also spent a lot of time parked up outside Argos in Aylesbury providing a hand car wash service

Our website we cobbled together ourselves enabled people to book easily online and quickly started to perform well. Even though it now brings a nauseous feeling to look back at the website design, it served us well.

Valeting cars all day kept us relatively fit, but it was hard work. With each of us having to clean 15+ cars every day in the rain, wind, cold or sunshine.

We quickly grew to a few vans on the road and franchise opportunities, at this point Kingsley decided to purchase and import a Ford F-150 Lightning.

The process of shipping, testing, and registering was tricky but even after all the costs involved it quickly became apparent that a potential business venture was to be had.

We quickly set up ImportMyVehicle.com, created a website and used all the tricks at the time to get it to the top of Google. Before we expected, and very much before we had fully prepared, somebody found us online and ordered a 2005 Ford Mustang GT.

We needed to get to the USA quickly, to build up a network of trusted dealers, and to source the exact Mustang GT that was specified.

With our freshly printed Import My Vehicle polo shirts and a bag of home printed business cards we flew across the pond.

After driving around for a short while we found a Ford Dealer in Florida with the perfect cars and the first Stage 3 Roush Mustang in the world…. It was love at first site….

Carry on reading – Chapter 2 – The White Roush

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Directors Nick Roach and Kingsley Read have visited the top Roush Dealers in the USA a number of times to ensure they keep up to date with new Roush models and to meet some of the Roush Owners and Enthusiasts on the other side of the pond.

Jack Roush regularly likes to visit his team of Roush dealers in the USA and they can be a great chance to meet the man and see some example cars that are taken to each event – US dealers are often much more flexible when taking test drives too!

The dates announced are:

Wednesday, February 16 – Gary Yeomans Ford (Daytona Beach, Fla.)
Thursday, March 24 – Fritts Ford (Riverside, Calif.)
Thursday, April 7 – Joe Meyers Ford (Houston, Texas)
Thursday, April 28 – Richmond Ford (Richmond, Va.)
Thursday, June 2 – Long MacArthur Ford (Salina, Kan.)
Thursday, June 16 – ROUSH Automotive Collection (Livonia, Mich.)
Thursday, June 23 – Frontier Ford (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Thursday, July 7 – Ray Skillman Ford (Greenwood, Ind.)
Thursday, August 18 – ROUSH Automotive Collection (Livonia, Mich.)
Thursday, October 20 – Town & Country Ford (Bessemer, Ala.)

If you do purchase one of these fantastic Roush Mustangs, or wish to purchase one in the UK / upgrade your existing Mustang please do not hesitate to contact us to arrange your car shipping – your Mustang will be delivered including IVA testing, DVLA registration and more – you can even obtain an instant car shipping quote through our unique car shipping quotation system

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When the ice & snow comes down it can cause havoc with collecting vehicles from the port as many of the major ports shut their doors in adverse weather conditions

Luckily all of our customers cars are safely stored in our warehouses out of the way of the weather. We are also working hard this week to collect as many cars as possible prior to the change in conditions…

Milton Keynes often seems to have it’s own weather to the rest of the country, we luckily missed the worst of the recent snow fall, fingers crossed the next snowfall waits until the offices are closed and Christmas holidays have begun!

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Here is a sneaky shot we got of the Stig with the car after the track drive:

Unfortunately on the show they stated the Roush was £10k more than the Shelby when in fact they are actually cheaper than the Shelby, but nevertheless, a great day out!

The Roush was fine to drive back to our ShipMyCar offices afterwards – brakes were a bit on the spongy side but generally all was OK considering the thrashing it was given

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“Moving into ROUSH Building 79 is an exciting step in the evolution of ROUSH Performance as our business continues to grow and thrive,” said Gary Jurick, ROUSH Performance vice-president and general manager. “It allows us to consolidate our vehicle build, warehousing, and offices together in a manner that gains workflow efficiencies and helps to further set the company up for additional growth opportunities.”

The new building allows ROUSH to further expand their growing Install Center for customer-owned vehicle modifications; any of the ROUSH Performance parts, such as a ROUSHcharger, suspension, brake, and exhaust upgrades can be installed by the trained technicians who are involved in the ROUSH specialty vehicle builds.

Since being established in 1995, ROUSH Performance has built more than 18,000 specialty vehicles. Today, their lineup of upfitted ROUSH Ford Mustangs challenge the notion that a high-performance sports car needs to come from Europe as the 525-horsepower and more than 1G skid pad rating are superior to many of today’s exotic supercars.

Effective immediately, the new address is:
ROUSH Performance
39555 Schoolcraft Road
Plymouth Township, MI 48170

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Make no mistake, the 2011 ROUSH 5XR is a runner. With the R2300 ROUSHcharger installed the 2011 ROUSH 5XR Mustang will sport an “extreme” 525 horsepower under the hood, along with an “exciting” 465 lb.-ft. of torque. To keep the “exclusivity” high, there will be a maximum of just 150 units of the 2011 ROUSH 5XR Mustang built, each with a 3-year/36,000 mile warranty on the powertrain and ROUSH components. The 2011 ROUSH 5XR Mustang is available in a coupe or convertible, but only with a six-speed manual transmission.

“I’m always excited to get an opportunity to work on a new engine, and the Ford 5.0-liter is a great platform. It has 412 horsepower to begin with, but our group was able to coax out another 113 horsepower with the ROUSHcharger. The 2011 ROUSH 5XR runs fast, sounds great, and is another amazing addition to the ROUSH Mustang heritage,” said Jack Roush, motorsports legend and chairman of ROUSH Enterprises.

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