WDRacing wrote:
I remember reading a thread on SDU a long time ago when you were drag racing big bird and playing with boost/nitrous combos. A lot has changed since then...
Just my .02, but it seems like you've turned into that old guy on the porch yelling at the kids to get off his grass. Don't sweat the small s*** bro...and it's all small s***.
Still the same guy. Still race. Still play with boost and nitrous. Still the same guy when it comes to illegally imported cars. I have tolerated them over the years, but I don't like them. Still trying to help and inform the Skyline owners. However, if they don't want to know the truth, or think I am lying about things, all they need to do, is look at the information I have posted on forums, and my blogs the last 12 years.
If you want a race car, you import a car as a legal race car, the way we did.
http://vehicleimport.blogspot.com/2007/ ... ly-to.html.
There is a right way, and a way these guys are doing it. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. If they have a serious issue with what they bought, go back and take issue with the person they bought the car from. If they had done their due diligence then, they would not be in this mess. Instead, ignorant consumers have driven this market, with the shady importers taking the money.
For 12 years I have been putting out information on this subject. The only thing that most people do, is complain about the price, and say they "ain't got emissions testing in my state." When you are in my position, and trying to do everything importation related correctly, to minimize these hassles, how would you feel, when the guys doing it wrong get popped. I have tolerated the state titled cars for years. I think I have talked to most of the guys that have done import, and titling in the US. Everything from bringing in complete cars, to driving them down from Canada.
http://vehicleimport.blogspot.com/2010/ ... adian.html
From 2008, and a post on this forum.
http://vehicleimport.blogspot.com/2008/ ... d-s15.html
These mainstream seizures have been happening since 2008.
http://vehicleimport.blogspot.com/2008/ ... texas.html
There are others, but they aren't as public as the ones from forum posters.
http://vehicleimport.blogspot.com/2009/ ... on-17.html
THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT is made and entered into by and between the United States Environmental Protection Agency EPA and David Nelson of Tacoma, Washington Respondent.
4. 40 C.F.R. § 85.15 13 prohibits the importation of a motor vehicle which in not covered by a certificate of conformity.
5. Section 216a2 of the Act defines motor vehicle as any self-propelled vehicle designed for transporting persons or property on a street or highway. EPA has further explained that a disassembled vehicle or an approximate disassembled vehicle constitutes a motor vehicle. EPA Kit Car Policy July 8, 1994.
11. In August of 2006, Respondent imported 17 motor vehicles Customs and Border Protection Customs entry number AC 1-8261233-6. Customs detained this shipment at the Port of Portland, Oregon, and has subsequently seized the shipment.
There are many more. For every one guy that gets caught, there are 10 others that do not.