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Ned Connolly (Roverned)
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 03:03 pm: | 
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Anyone know what's involved to pull this off? Taxes/duties/requirements?
I brought a truck in from the UK and it was smooth sailing because it was over 25 years old. On the surface, it looks like the same holds true for Canada. But I was wondering if things are different if the vehicle, though less than 25 years old, is identical to the LR model offered in the US in the same year?
Canadian 110s seem to pop up stateside now and again. |
Ross Thoma (Rossthoma)
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 05:04 pm: |
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Call UScustoms
I drove my truck across, but I already owned it in Canada so importing may be diferent.
Sorry
RT |
Ron
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 08:19 pm: |
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If it is less than 25 years old it needs to be exactly as the US so you will need a new speedo. I want to say it is 2.5% duty. 94 D90s 95-present Discos and as you mentioned 93 110s are all perfectly legit, the nice grey market 90s and 110s they get the 15 year rule up there are out of course.
Ron |
Jack Quinlan (Jsq)
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 02:43 pm: |
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find a junker series and pull the solihuill plate off with that vin number. bolt it to your 110 and drive across. your even smog exempt. no one in customs knows enough about rovers to foul up the works.
I'm not so sure that 94 d-90s are legal unless that's a recent addition to the list. i tried to import two ex-mod brit defenders two years ago and only 93 110s could get in. That involved shipping and other hassles, but you also had to post a customs bond.
I imagine if you wanted you could just grab the registration from your current rover, take it to canada, buy the defender of your dreams and drive back across as if that had always been your car. don't forget your license plates.
no one ever said that loving rovers was completely legal. |
Jeremy Katka (Jkatka)
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 03:11 pm: |
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I have a question that is sorta related. What makes a rover or any other car for that matter a certain model year? In the UK I believe it is the year the chassis was built. So you could put a whole d-90 on a extended 88" chassis and it would be MOT'd for the year of the chassis that you put it on(I read about this.) In the US is it the vin plate that makes it a certain year? I have looked around a bit for this infomation but havent found an answer that was clear. From what I have gathered a valid title w/ a matching vin on the vehical makes a car a certain year. If I wanted to import or build a truck here as a little project car what things would the DMV or State patrol look at to determin the model year. For instance if I at some point or anouther wanted to import a Stage 1 (they are getting close to the 25 year rule.) what are they going to look at to determine the age of the vehical. I guess that would go for building a truck here too?
JK |
R. B. Bailey (Rover50987)
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 03:17 pm: |
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I know that it is legal to bring your own car in from Canada, if you have lived there, etc. But DON'T switch the VIN numbers on them, you MIGHT get away with it, in-fact you probably will. But if you don't, they don't pay you back when they take the car! It is such a stupid law...
Anyway, it is legal to bring a car in, and it is possible to get them licensed and all that LEGALLY. Don't ask me specifics right now, but I know of two 110's in my area that are both from the mid '80's and they are both licensed after being brought in, and neither of them were rebuilt.
Where is this list of legal cars to bring in? I would like to see it. Check out www.expeditionsoverland.com this guy gets them from somewhere! And he isn't exactly being evasive, he must be doing it legally.
http://landrover.mrbaileyshistory.net |
u.s. customs
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 05:53 am: |
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buy pulling vin plates from one to the other is federal offense and your looking at fifteen years if you get nabed by the feds. and i wouldnt be so sure as to say the customs dont know about rovers dont be a fool as sugested the old story goes "you play you pay" or other words pay for the dam thing . you might as well go steal a rover from some one, stick on vin tags from a "junker series" and drive around in a 95 rangie that is registered as a 64 109 some people just dont get it must be the pot state side |
Dana Giles (Dana_G)
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 03:55 pm: |
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ummm...hey there u.s. customs although i agree what you're saying is sage advice, I don't know many customs agents who quite so evidently lack any English grammar/spelling skills. Methinks thou misrepresenteth thyself, or....could be the pot wherever you're at. |
dick
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 05:41 pm: |
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OK DOCTR DICK WHAT POINT ARE YOU MAKING THAT YOU ARE A LITTLE BETTER WITH YOUR EDUCATION OR SPELLING.SEEMS AS THOUGH YOU FORGOT YOUR CAPITALS BUT ANY HOW I DIDNT WRITE THIS TO BE CHASTISED BUT TO GIVE SOME SOILD ADVISE. STONED MASON |
Anon
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 06:18 pm: |
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"soiled advice"??? Hehehehe |
Dana Giles (Dana_G)
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 06:25 pm: |
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Sarcasm just doesn't come across well on bulletin boards........Your (I assumed sarcastic) inference was that all us stateside folk are stoned on bad weed, my counterpoint was that by your use of the language you were the one appearing to be under the influence. It was not meant as an attack on your person, as it was quite obviously taken, chill out. For that I am sorry and I will resist the temtation to get into a pissing match with you. |
Neal Glessner (Nealg)
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 10:39 pm: |
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Again, aonther interesting thread spoiled my idiots. |
Dana Giles (Dana_G)
| | Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 11:14 pm: |
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idiot...my god man, if you want to insult me please exercise your vocabulary a bit more than that. Honestly, it was my fault....my colleagues and friends are all quite thick skinned and cut each other down constantly...forgot the rest of the world doesn't always think that way.
But as for you 
Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous |
Neal Glessner (Nealg)
| | Posted on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 12:37 am: |
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IDIOT:
1. A foolish or stupid person.
2. A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally being unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers.
Now if you would prefer me to "exercise my vocabulary more than that", I guess I could call you a FUCKING ASS-HOLE or something like that. But really, anyone who begs for a more potent insult has got to be an idiot so I will just stick with my original thoughts on the subject.
I was just saying that I'm getting tired of people taking threads off topic because of silly and irrelevant chatter.
I personally would like to learn more about importing Rovers. Instead part way through the thread a pissing match started over grammar and other bullshit. Meanwhile, those of us who would like to discuss importing Rovers are stumped. I don't think that I'm off base if I try to keep a thread that I'm participating in on topic.
Take your games to another thread or site. |
daren
| | Posted on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 06:21 am: |
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When going across the border, wear a towel on your head. They will be shiting the selves , thinking that you might be one of thse dick heads that are getting up to some no good lately, they will forget about the car. |
Todd W. McLain (Ganryu)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 05:33 am: |
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Isn't one of Murphy's law of the Internet something like you can't have a BBS/Usenet thread go beyond 5 posts before somebody will flame somebody else? I know it goes something like that. I will agree with Dana, though, sarcasm definatly doesn't come across right on posts.
I think Daren is on the right track, sort of. How about if you could plant something on the car in front of you (drugs, guns, etc.)? That way the customs agents will spend there time busting that guy and more than likely wave you through. |
TPH (Tph)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 07:48 am: |
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I second Todd's "Murphy" theory. |
Andrew Clarke (Aclarke)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 10:21 am: |
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To reiterate what Ron said up at the top, you can import a vehicle into Canada when it's 15 years old, similarly to the 25 year rule in the US. At least that's the case in BC IIRC.
You still can't import them into the US though just because they're in Canada. For instance, when I first moved from Canada down to the US I had my 1991 Nissan Sentra Classic with me and the California DMV wouldn't let me register it because they didn't sell the "Classic" in the US. The Classic model was the 1990 body style - I guess they just had a few extra of them so they rebadged them as 1991 and sold them in Canada. If it had have been a 1990 it would have been no problem to import.
Anyways, as I understand it, a vehicle imported from Canada is subject to the same laws as a vehicle imported from China or the UK or anywhere else. |
R. B. Bailey (Rover50987)
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 11:20 am: |
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It's a lot of leagalese, but if you read it carefully, it makes sense. And looking at the prices of basic Defenders on the other side of the Atlantic... Well, the fact remains that I know there are "illegal" trucks here that are legalized with legal loopholes - I've driven some of them. Now, to the authority:
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/imp-exp2/informal/car.htm
http://landrover.mrbaileyshistory.net |
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