O.K...This time, my friend found TWO REAL GT5-S!!!

Paul,
did you get my Post's, I cant't find them , regarding importing.
Daniel

Daniel...I got your posts. I am truly looking at the logisitics of getting the car over to the US.

Sean on the POCA email list just brought in a Lotus from England. You can reach him at

spleen (at) spamcop.net

I don't know how you are going to get in a car from that year, to the US, without DOT papers. And I imagine those would be damn near impossible to get for a car that was never crash tested for US importation (that's my understanding anyway).

The local salvage yard has men from Saudi Arabia come here and dissasemble big old mopars. They load all the parts in a container. Now they are importing parts rather than cars. Perhaps you could have the car disasembled? Kirk Evans should know how to get one here.

Since some cars did make it to the US.... I wonder if there is a way. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Regards,
Paul

PM Coz on how he got #9178 in and what support paperwork was required.

Put it this way it shows up as a much older car than the true VIN # year

Julian

Yes I just passed on a deal where a car was brought to the USA brand new ..actually 2 of them with no motors and trans and they had no MSO's .... this is the way to get those cars in the USA ...but and I say but ... once you get them her eand reassemble them .. probably and I;m no expert ..they would have to be registered as component cars. At least thats my understanding after 8 weeks of research and NYS DMV rules. A component car doesnt have to meet saftey or emisssions.

Ron

I think the issue is that you can get them into the US but if you want to title the car and register it with a DMV for use if it isn't 25 model years old or better it's gonna be no dice baby.

In NY, it is as Ron says, you need a title to transfer or a MLO (manufacturer's letter of origin).

In NYS, I believe that you possibly could register it as a home build car BUT in the past that meant that a Title would be issued stating that AND the STATE of NY would issue a chassis serial number and apply it.

There may be rural states that are less strict but as far as I know even if they are the car still needs to conform to US DOT requirements.

In the past some of the importers had other options.

guys are selling nissan skyline on ebay all the times. they import them as offroad vehicle. two of my cousins purchased them off ebay but cant register them. they're 1993 cars.

I thought you wanted to drive it on the street in the US?
I guess you can bring anything in as used auto parts?

It very simple ... go to the website for DMV of your state ... they explain it down to giving you a phone number to call... NYS has 2 people who will tell you exactly what you need. If you get to DMV months later and they will not register it ..you use their name and call them and it gets settled right there and then. I called and found out exactly ..thats hwy I didnt make my purchase of a New 2006 AC MKV Prototype Cobra.