Sad times for owners and their imported GT-Rs
10-02-2009, 11:45 AM
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Why does anyone care about that F&F2 Skyline?
It's a total mock up car. SCC did a test drive on all the FF2 cars, and the hot pink S2K was hands down the fastest best setup of all the cars.
That's sad...
The govt needs to just stop *****ing about japanese imports. I don't see them busting all the other cars.
It's a total mock up car. SCC did a test drive on all the FF2 cars, and the hot pink S2K was hands down the fastest best setup of all the cars.
That's sad...
The govt needs to just stop *****ing about japanese imports. I don't see them busting all the other cars.
And anyway I thought these types of cars were okay to be driven "recreationally" and with very low mileage per year, I don't really see what makes a Skyline different from anything else out there existing under the same rules, unless the Skylines are operating under a supposedly different set of rules.
Also, LOL at skylines violating EPA standards. They should be concentrating on doing something about the bajillion pre 1979 cars out there that are completely exempt from smog, rather than the tiny number of Skylines that are here. I assume that rule still exists, right?
10-02-2009, 11:52 AM
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This is some BS....It clearly states on the NHTSA website that R33's are eligible for importing.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/...elig060109.pdf
Why not just let the R32 and 34's in as well. Charge an import tax and be done with it. This is all a ploy to stop the hemorrhaging of US carmakers' earnings...
And it's well known that Kaito cars have always been a sketchy endeavour. It's old news that Kaito cars were going to cause problems and that they could never work in CA...But the fact that the Feds are going in and confiscating cars that are already imported is a violation of the owner's rights. Unless of course the owners did a VIN swap and registered their cars as 240s
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/...elig060109.pdf
Why not just let the R32 and 34's in as well. Charge an import tax and be done with it. This is all a ploy to stop the hemorrhaging of US carmakers' earnings...
And it's well known that Kaito cars have always been a sketchy endeavour. It's old news that Kaito cars were going to cause problems and that they could never work in CA...But the fact that the Feds are going in and confiscating cars that are already imported is a violation of the owner's rights. Unless of course the owners did a VIN swap and registered their cars as 240s
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10-02-2009, 02:13 PM
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P.S. wow I hit 1,000
10-02-2009, 02:59 PM
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The owner of the bodyshop that's currently working on my car has a pristine R34 with FL plates. He was telling me about the kit car loophole and how he planned to go this route with his car in order to reg. it in CA. Looks to me like he's S.O.L. 
10-02-2009, 03:18 PM
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Theres about 30 of them in CA alone. Bruce Canepa had them brought over, he switched out the turbos to Garetts, and then it becomes a kit car. There are 8-10 in the bay area, all bought from Bruce. Bruce at one point had over 10 sitting in his santa cruz shop.
10-02-2009, 03:46 PM
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This is some BS....It clearly states on the NHTSA website that R33's are eligible for importing.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/...elig060109.pdf
Why not just let the R32 and 34's in as well. Charge an import tax and be done with it. This is all a ploy to stop the hemorrhaging of US carmakers' earnings...
And it's well known that Kaito cars have always been a sketchy endeavour. It's old news that Kaito cars were going to cause problems and that they could never work in CA...But the fact that the Feds are going in and confiscating cars that are already imported is a violation of the owner's rights. Unless of course the owners did a VIN swap and registered their cars as 240s
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/CARS/RULES/...elig060109.pdf
Why not just let the R32 and 34's in as well. Charge an import tax and be done with it. This is all a ploy to stop the hemorrhaging of US carmakers' earnings...
And it's well known that Kaito cars have always been a sketchy endeavour. It's old news that Kaito cars were going to cause problems and that they could never work in CA...But the fact that the Feds are going in and confiscating cars that are already imported is a violation of the owner's rights. Unless of course the owners did a VIN swap and registered their cars as 240s
they modifed them to pass US crash tests
you have to do doors and glass and other stuff
thats why R33 s are OK to bring in
10-02-2009, 03:50 PM
#55
the car was a super taiku and was brought in under a race car never to go on the street
a race car is a race car and a street car is a street car.
they wouldnt be confused with each other
they look the car over quite a bit
10-02-2009, 03:53 PM
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Production 1986–1989
(337 produced)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959
its the real porsche super car no carrera GT crap
10-02-2009, 05:01 PM
#57
The Porsche 959 can be imported because Bill Gates actually got a bill approved that allowed ultra low production (and historically significant) vehicles to be imported and registered. The GTR is nowhere near low production so that particular law doesn't apply here. (Maybe the 22b could be registered
)Also, I believe cars like Noble are dot bond released so thats why those cars are allowed.
For a long time Motorex would not tell anyone how they went about converting the cars because they wanted to be the one and only Skyline importer in the US. I guess they revealed part of their method in that article though. Too bad RB Motoring gave up on trying to import Skylines
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10-02-2009, 08:03 PM
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Noble cars are inherently known as 'kit-cars' it was the only way it started. They ship the cars in as Nobles and they use engines that are picked from the 'factory' as a 'package deal'. :-X
Give Turbohoses.com a call and they will school you in the art of buying and owning a Noble M-XXX.
Hoover and another person there know their ****.
Give Turbohoses.com a call and they will school you in the art of buying and owning a Noble M-XXX.
Hoover and another person there know their ****.
10-05-2009, 12:47 PM
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Correct, they only did crash testing on the R33. Afaik, all of the r32-34 Skylines Motorex brought over were registered as 1995 models. None of the cars that were imported and sold through Motorex will be snagged by the feds be they r32, r33, or r34 due to the fact that those cars have been bond released by the DOT. They are only snagging cars that were brought over as parts, reasembled using the exact same parts that came off the car, and registered as kit cars.
The Porsche 959 can be imported because Bill Gates actually got a bill approved that allowed ultra low production (and historically significant) vehicles to be imported and registered. The GTR is nowhere near low production so that particular law doesn't apply here. (Maybe the 22b could be registered )
Also, I believe cars like Noble are dot bond released so thats why those cars are allowed.
For a long time Motorex would not tell anyone how they went about converting the cars because they wanted to be the one and only Skyline importer in the US. I guess they revealed part of their method in that article though. Too bad RB Motoring gave up on trying to import Skylines .
The Porsche 959 can be imported because Bill Gates actually got a bill approved that allowed ultra low production (and historically significant) vehicles to be imported and registered. The GTR is nowhere near low production so that particular law doesn't apply here. (Maybe the 22b could be registered
)Also, I believe cars like Noble are dot bond released so thats why those cars are allowed.
For a long time Motorex would not tell anyone how they went about converting the cars because they wanted to be the one and only Skyline importer in the US. I guess they revealed part of their method in that article though. Too bad RB Motoring gave up on trying to import Skylines
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