[billmiranda]

Originally Posted by Ebag333

It's possible. Just depends on how fast and loose you want to play with federal and state laws.

Many states don't care how the vehicle got here, they just want their money for it. That's not true of all states, so it's up to you to figure out what you can get away with, and how comfortable you are with it.

If I were importing one, I'd just have someone drive it across the border then sell it to me. I would treat it just like I'm buying a vehicle from someone who's in th states and they've already dealt with "importing" it (which would be true).

You can get a replacement VIN (a club member has one...actually he has two VIN's...odd story..), so the lack of a (US) VIN isn't an automatic disqualification.

Once it's legally titled and registered your chances of any repercussions coming back on you drops, but you may not be able to move it to another state. There is a diesel 80 in Cali that's been on eBay a few times, the guy can't register it there. IIRC it has a Florida registration.

Well,.. the thing is that you can drive anything across the border. If you have a Canadian drive a diesel 70 serries across the border, then sell it to you, you still have to federalize it before you can register it. happened to a friend of mine who bought a diesel 40. He had to gt rid of it because unless that guy who sold it to you went through the federalization process and got a US title for it,.. it's illegal.

Bill