remove tubes before moving cross town?

I've schlepped tube guitar amps all over the place since the 60s…watched a luggage dude drop an Anvil cased Twin Reverb (with JBLs so it weighed about a ton…it was the 70s dammit) on the runway and it survived fine…amps in car crashes (more than once), knocked over in bar fights…it's not easy being a guitar amp...I also think you're more likely to damage tubes by trying to remove them, so unless your car has no suspension I bet you can make it across town.

What are we talking about here, 10 minutes tops to remove and replace the tubes?

That's the funny part about this and many other threads.  Sometimes the quest for knowledge takes more time than playing it safely does (i.e. removing the tubes).  I'm frequently guilty of this quest for knowledge thing ;-)

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier Design

I should have made some popcorn

Don't remove them. Reason: it takes too long for the tube pin physical/electrical connections to break in again. Never unplug anything.