Van,
Wellllllll, you could perform some trickery by buying a similar wrecked car
and transfer all the ID tags. I don't know what would happen if you got
caught.
FWIW, a tour company in NY imported some double decker buses from England and
lied about their age and fudged some of the paperwork. The EPA or was it
Customs, confiscated the buses, fined them and eventually they did go out of
business.
Government agencies don't like to be toyed with. My Dad told me some horror
stories when unscrupulous converters deceived some people who brought Euro
spec cars to the US and those converters were supposed to homologate them to
US specs. After the government found out that the "converters" did not do the
required work the government paid a visit to all their customers, checked the
cars and then impounded them. They had the choice of re-exporting them or
crushing them. If the people did nothing they were crushed.
Many were crushed including some Lambos and Ferraris.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: DemonTSi@aol.com
To: datsunmike@nyc.rr.com ; giraffehauler@yahoo.com ;
datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: importing cars
In a message dated 11/9/01 3:59:18 AM Pacific Standard Time,
datsunmike@nyc.rr.com writes:
Thanks for the post. Seems only cars built before 68 can be imported
easily.
I thought there were some exemptions but they may have been revoked
because
of wide spread abuse.
It's actually not *too* hard to import a later-model car... you just have to
remove the engine/drivetrain and ship it over separately, and claim the shell
is a parts car. Registering the car is another matter though... I wish I could
find a definitive loophole
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