On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Larry Daniels wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Tinkham" <jltinkham@tds.net>
>
>
> "Why, when you could buy this one just up the road from my place
> and ship it
> to the US - all for probably less than that amount, with little
> manual labor
> involved :-)"
>
> Because it isn't anywhere as simple as that. I researched
> importing newer
> MGs a couple years back and the newest I could import and put on
> the road
> would have been early 70s BV8's. Anything newer starts running
> afoul of
> safety and pollution laws/requirements.
>
> Jim
> 69C
> 66B
> =====================================
>
> 25 years and older are exempt from EPA and DOT regs.
>
> I just imported a 67 Austin this week and had no problems.
So we're sitting at '81 cars and older.
Phil Vanner told me a guy just imported a BGT V8. Got me scheming.
Course,
it involves having money. Something I don't have to worry about. :-)
> Larry Daniels
>
>
> P.S. I tried twice to post about the Austin pickup that I just
> brought in
> through the port in Baltimore and neither one came through. They
> were long
> posts. Could that have been the problem? The second time I BCC'd
> it to
> myself and that made it, but the two lists didn't come through at all.
>
That's too bad. I wanted to hear about that. Sounds like you made it
home
anyway. Maybe there's a size limit. Check the link below.
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