Re: OT anyone read russian?

["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: I understand how to deal with vehicles from the outside. If you check, 
you will see the Trabant was brought to CA, which required it to be killed 
and sterilized lest it's emission fall upon the nostrils of the higher ups. 
There are less arcane ways of bringing vehicles in, especially if they are 
related to currently registered ones. (Had I known this 10 years ago, I 
would probably still be tooling around in a Hyundai Stellar, which was a 
ri.... *cough*, *cough* copy of the Audi 4000 design as a rear whel drive 
(it went to it's final resting place in Canada after my ex-wife and 3 sons 
were done with it at 300,000 miles)


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There's another problem: you're responsible for making sure it meets US 
requirements to drive on the road, and federal emissions requirements. It 
might be useable as an off-road only vehicle, but still has to go through a 
lot of red tape to be allowed in the country. One of the car magazines (Road 
& Track?) brought one of the little Trabant two stroke cars that was still 
being made in East Germany after unification. They didn't do all the 
paperwork, and had to destroy the car after a certain amount of time (30 
days?) or pay a lot of penalties for shipping it over. They tried to get the 
gov't to let them make it undriveable and donate to a museum, but they'd 
have to pay the fines AND have a certified shop do any work, even to cripple 
it, or destroy the car. So they ended up having it crushed. I bet the $2800 
doesn't include shipping either!

On August 9, 2005 Jim B wrote:

> A: Sounds interesting! I may have some others interested (unless it's just 
> a

> CJ copy. We like BIG Jeeps! <G>)