JDM Car Importers Arrested After Florida Revokes 400 Illegal Titles
R34 Skylines, FD RX-7s, and other foreign-market jewels are now just giant paperweights.
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Play with fire and you can get burned. The more illegal sh*t you do, the more likely it is that you’re gonna draw unwanted attention.
I’ve never understood guys like this—it’s so easy to import cars legally, why bother with the (substantial) risk?
Technically, no, not one that's been illegally imported. It's not a question of how it's used or whether it has a title (many cars in the US illegally do), it's the fact that it's been imported as contraband. The only way forward for contraband is surrender, destruction, or export. Whether the Feds would pursue any of that is up to them, of course. If they don't, it becomes a big question what, if anything, they'd allow the owners to do with the cars. It's possible that they'd allow the owners to re-import the cars, legally, by having a Registered Importer modify them to comply with US regulations (safety and emissions, mostly), or via an exemption such as "show and display" or something else listed on the HS-7 import form.Wondering if one can use a non-title vehicle on a track or private property.