What is stopping me from importing a car (such as picrel) to the U.S before it turns 25 and keeping it in storage or driven only on private roadways (or around on airfield property) until it turns 25?
>>28954157I'm not aware of anything on the federal level but you can still run afoul of state laws and local ordinances. For example, more than a few counties and municipalities have ordinances that require vehicles to be currently registered even if non-op and snitches exist to call Code Enforcement even if the local governments aren't using drones to spy on you directly. Had a friend get caused a bit of trouble long before drones were a thing with several First-Gen Mustangs that somebody literally had to trespass on someones else's property and climb a privacy fence to see and report.
>>28954369State is fine (mine is known for being notoriously lax and I could probably even drive it on roads with an orange triangle, but I do not want to test such laws). The local laws are a good point, though. Thanks.
>>28954157Is there anything preventing people from importing cars from abroad and running them on the original country's license plates, provided you get US insurance?
>>28954490Not for longer than a year and it has to be with a foreign insurance provider.>>28954157The law covers importation of road cars, so you cannot even bring it into the country. The easiest alternative is to have a buddy in a much more import-lax country (like Canada, or better yet, the Caribbean) to hold the car there.>>28954372Florida? If you want a Santana, you might as well buy a Chinese model instead of a Brazilian one and have it sent to Hong Kong. There are facilities in Hong Kong designed specifically for car storage and there are no import duties on cars from any country there, so really any car, even a brand new one may be stored there. Of course, you may need to travel there every so often, but that is the only downside that I see.>inb4 chinkshill
>>28954157What if we just kill the boomers who made such laws and then delete the laws
>>28954530Gen X are just as bad too, so it might not be another 40 years until change, in which case all cars less than 25 years old will be gay and retarded.
>>28954157Nothing. Picrel was taken in 2015, for instance, when both of the cars in the pic would've been entirely illegal to register and drive on the road (R34s are barely even legal now, finally). Did the owners care? Not one bit - I'm not sure how they were registered but they had current plates and were driven in. This is in Florida, by the way.
>>28954552I may know a gay who will just circumvent that, since he delisted his import firm (but still may sometimes do it).Do you know anything about what this guy said? >>28954517 The JDM Santanas are kind of weird, plus really rare and perfectly legal as they are. I used the Santana as an example (though I would not mind a new-ish model from China or Brazil), but there are a few models that I would be interested in owning, none are old enough to be legally imported: TagAZ Aquila (mind you this is a hairdresser's car), APAL Stalker, Vauxhall Vectra VXR, Citroen C6 and Ssangyong Chairman to name a few, which all fall under this problem.What about workarounds by engine swapping previously engine swapped NEVs (this was how the Lada Oka was sold in the US)?
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>>28954576>gayguy he isn't gay (luckily)
>>28954157>What is stopping meTrump.>>28954490>Is there anything preventing people from importing cars from abroad and running them on the original country's license platesState Police, who will Pit Maneuver your ass>we got one boys!! Lock and load
>>28954552>This is in Florida, by the way.You're full of shit.
>>28954652Yeah, where are the alligators?
>>28954157I like these cars too, bro.Your best bet is actually to look for a US spec V Quantum, with the Audi 5 pot.1986–1988 Quantum GL Syncro WagonThese legendary Audi 5 cylinders can be modded, to Euro spec>>28954657>Yeah, where are the alligators?I had to laugh here..
>>28954157Federal law you dumb shit. And CBP. They'll just seize it and crush it when it lands on US shores. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title49-chapter301&edition=prelimYou can thank Mercedes America for the laws and MotoRex and all the other sketchy companies trying to scam Skylines into the country for getting the US gov to really crack down on the import thing. If it's not 25+ it ain't happening.
>>28954157>>28954369This gay shit really happens in the land of the free? My country is a notorious nanny state but they don't give a shit what you do with a car as long as it's on private property, literally. Even then you can get a one day permit to drive anything you want on the road as long as it's for either repairs or getting it registered.
>>28954672That only really happens in the suburbs where fags don't like seeing the shitbox hoarders. You have to have some land for that.
>>28954682Even so, doesn't happen in my country. As long as the vehicle is on your property, even if it's a tiny lawn out front, that thing can rot into the ground and there are no laws against it at all.
>>28954660Probably a good compromise.>>28954664Oh well. I don't see what is so wrong with using it on private property, though. Optimally there would be no such laws regarding this, but what about type federalization? There were similar models as >>28954660 pointed out. I know that it can be pricey, but I am alright on the money and that this little foray into car importation
>>28954767>I don't see what is so wrong with using it on private property, thoughNothing. It's illegal to import and register them, the law says nothing about them existing on private property (although their existence is evidence of importation which is illegal).If you want one you'll need to import and register in Mexico o algo and then drive it across the border on Mexican plates. Tons of cars on ancient mexican plates here in NM because police don't execute traffic stops and ALPRs don't return anything for foreign plates.
>>28954157that's not how it worksthe thing that matters is the date it was imported, how the fuck are you going to register a car that magically shows up on your property without documentation? also, you can literally import any car into the country, you only get fucked when you do it illegally like your retarded idea
>>28954672Yes. MB lobbied for this law back in like the 90s. People figured out you could get better optioned/equipped Mercedes straight from Germany for cheaper than what dealers wanted for the USDM versions. That pissed off Mercedes so they lobbied Congress to pass a law banning non-US certified vehicles until they're 25+ years old. Funnily enough we can thank Bill Gates for the show & display exemption because he just had to have a Porsche 959 which wasn't sold here.
Can someone explain to me how to import a vehicle which I only intend to use as parts? It's 20 years old
>>28954157I'm pretty sure you cannot bring it into US for storage until it's 25 years old. However there have been cases of people importing cars to Canada before it's 25 years old and then storing it there until it's 25 years old. I think one guy bought like 10 R32 GTRs back in 2012 and 2013 to store in Canada right before those cars turned 25 years old in 2014.
