HOW MANY R34'S ARE IN THE USA???

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After 25 years they are considerd by customs to be collector cars


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If those f***ers slice up my RS's interior I am going to kill someone. Maybe I should pull the good interior, mail it, and ship it with spare seats?

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Oh ok I see. Like a Boss Mustang or other classics.

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some ports were nicer Long beach and Savannah were a pain with cutting up seats and tearing up dash boards ect and leaving a pile in the car when i called they said it was random inspection and they do that to look for drug smuggling whatever they just want to destroy the cars as much as could. it is not really the port people it is the off site private company who is contracted by dept of Homeland security then they charge 2000 for this inspection i will have to look up my paperwork for there name

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BLKTOPS14SR wrote:Oh ok I see. Like a Boss Mustang or other classics.
Correct you can send 25 year old jdm cars here with out problems no RI cause they car considered collectors cars there is a special box on the HS7 form for these cars you do not need EPA or DOT paper work just HS7 and the export certificate in english proving it is 25 years old down to the production month

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Do you know of a trustworthy company that can bring my cars into Baltimore or New York?

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the best companies are in Japan as a auto export company they usually charge 80000JPY as a commission they book everything as far as shipping and transport on the Japanese end and De-registering the car for export. Then you choose the port from japan the car is to arrive into as well. On the American side you fine a good customs broker who knows about automotive imports. I found that most of them are near the local airport LOL. But make sure it is 25 years to the production month. Have them fill out the HS 7 and have proof that it is 25 years such as a export certificate ect. the new one do not have imperial year so no getting away with a R31 with a RB20 as a 25 year car. but the customs broker is suppose to set up the rail transport as needed and truck transport make sure you pay the rail fees and the duties cause the customs broker will not cover these things and that is about it

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I'm going to Virginia. If they can drop the car off in New York or Baltimore, I'll roll straight down I-95.

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I think I'm going to stick to conversions for now....

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damn your lucky. . . it really sucks to be here in so-cal. . . . i trying to figure out how to get one here for me. . . but congrats man . . . hopefully i can join the R34 club. . soon. . .

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yeah the canadians have it good with there 15 year law

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sean8564 wrote:Correct you can send 25 year old jdm cars here with out problems no RI cause they car considered collectors cars there is a special box on the HS7 form for these cars you do not need EPA or DOT paper work just HS7 and the export certificate in english proving it is 25 years old down to the production month
Awesome. So only 5 more years before my R32 is finally considered "truly" legal. haha. By that time it will be a RB26-powered, fire breathing beast.

If we're delving into technicalities of the law, if you register any year, any model Skyline as a kit car--while this does degrade the value somewhat in the eyes of purists--the car is magically 50-state legal. Different states have different opinions on what a kit car is, though. Some require a state issued VIN, which could be a pain in the a**. You also have to (or at the very least, "should") get kit car/collectors car insurance, which generally runs significantly more expensive, depending on how much you're insuring for--but at least you have a gauranteed payout.

With this path, the only difficulty is getting it into the country, as our illustrious topic poster has so poignantly brought to light.

By the way, i think i actually looked at a couple of those Skylines in the ATL. He was asking chump change for them...$5k less for an R32 than what i paid for my GTS-t, and I still didn't buy it, which i suppose is a testament to their post-customs condition.

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ivysbuddy wrote:
Awesome. So only 5 more years before my R32 is finally considered "truly" legal. haha. By that time it will be a RB26-powered, fire breathing beast.
Ummm...Actually, it has to be 25 years old when it is imported from it point of origin. It doesn't just magically become legal if it's already in the states when it turns 25.

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I live in wester PA, we have that I know of:(2) R32 GTR(1) R33 Gtst(1) R34 GTR VSpec II Nur with Tomei RB26 (was at carlisle performance and style.. drove it on the street!)

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Gold Digger wrote:Ummm...Actually, it has to be 25 years old when it is imported from it point of origin. It doesn't just magically become legal if it's already in the states when it turns 25.
Hmm...good point. I was just thinking that since the NHTSA is the federal authority for motor vehicles, when the restriction on importation is lifted it should be federally legal to register the car (even in CA) as the standards that prevent importation will no longer be applicable--kind of like for classic muscle cars. I'm not sure that anyone has ever had this exact issue, ever, for any car, though. haha.

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sean8564 wrote:the best companies are in Japan as a auto export company they usually charge 80000JPY as a commission they book everything as far as shipping and transport on the Japanese end and De-registering the car for export. Then you choose the port from japan the car is to arrive into as well. On the American side you fine a good customs broker who knows about automotive imports. I found that most of them are near the local airport LOL. But make sure it is 25 years to the production month. Have them fill out the HS 7 and have proof that it is 25 years such as a export certificate ect. the new one do not have imperial year so no getting away with a R31 with a RB20 as a 25 year car. but the customs broker is suppose to set up the rail transport as needed and truck transport make sure you pay the rail fees and the duties cause the customs broker will not cover these things and that is about it

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