How to bring an evo iv from Vancouver
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It would be cheaper to pay someone to keep it registered in Canada and you get your own insurance and drive it. We're pretty lucky up here, we can import any 15+ year old car (STi's, Evo's, Supra, Skylines and they are dirt cheap).
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It's pretty black and white. Any car can be imported if it's 25 years or older. Or it can be imported for off road use. Or you can bull****, and put a mismatched VIN on a car that shouldn't have one. Or you can buy a fleet of said vehicles, and run them through the federal standards required for crash testing.
I'm not telling you that it isn't stupid, I'm not telling you that there aren't vehicles in the US that were imported, and are driven (I knew a fellow with a Honda Integra). I'm telling you that it's illegal.
Simply because you, your friend, or the company that sold the car to your friend don't understand the laws doesn't make you right... it just means that your buddy has a grey market import that he should feel lucky to have.
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Move to Canada. Haha, I've owned an evo IV and they are quite the joy ride. However, the wheel gap is ugly and getting parts from japan specifically for the Evo IV is annoying as hell. I wouldn't bother.
Also they have the bad crank for Crank walk. Mine had no play, but my buddy that also owned one that was completely stock and had 120,000kms on it aquired crankwalk.
Also they have the bad crank for Crank walk. Mine had no play, but my buddy that also owned one that was completely stock and had 120,000kms on it aquired crankwalk.
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Uhh... cool story? Maybe you could shed some light on how this is done, and then I can explain to you how if your buddy ever gets pulled over at all, ever, by a cop with a hard on, or even one that does his job by the book, that his car can be impounded instantly, and ultimately destroyed regardless of whatever you're about to tell me.
It's pretty black and white. Any car can be imported if it's 25 years or older. Or it can be imported for off road use. Or you can bull****, and put a mismatched VIN on a car that shouldn't have one. Or you can buy a fleet of said vehicles, and run them through the federal standards required for crash testing.
I'm not telling you that it isn't stupid, I'm not telling you that there aren't vehicles in the US that were imported, and are driven (I knew a fellow with a Honda Integra). I'm telling you that it's illegal.
Simply because you, your friend, or the company that sold the car to your friend don't understand the laws doesn't make you right... it just means that your buddy has a grey market import that he should feel lucky to have.
It's pretty black and white. Any car can be imported if it's 25 years or older. Or it can be imported for off road use. Or you can bull****, and put a mismatched VIN on a car that shouldn't have one. Or you can buy a fleet of said vehicles, and run them through the federal standards required for crash testing.
I'm not telling you that it isn't stupid, I'm not telling you that there aren't vehicles in the US that were imported, and are driven (I knew a fellow with a Honda Integra). I'm telling you that it's illegal.
Simply because you, your friend, or the company that sold the car to your friend don't understand the laws doesn't make you right... it just means that your buddy has a grey market import that he should feel lucky to have.
So they went after the dealer, with the help of a few key law enforcement figures, and in the end the dealer got fined and for the pain and hassle, said figures pushed through a legally issued "blue vin" for the car. It is legally registered with the State of Minnesota, as an imported car, in the same manner a 25+ year-old car would be, through the same system, with the same legaliztion papers.
I realize this is a special case with special circumstances, but at the end of the day my point was that you can't make blanket statements saying something can't be done when under certain circumstances it clearly can. Will your average guy be able to make it happen? Not likely. But that doesn't mean it's impossible as you would have everyone in this thread believe.
Last edited by cmspaz; Mar 21, 2013 at 08:51 AM.