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To me that is literally like throwing $5000 into the internet and hoping against odds that something positive happens. You must have balls of steel to trust and deal with someone over seas like that. There is almost zero protection for you if they tell you they are just keeping your money and sending you nothing.
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That seems like it would be worthwhile to do an escrow account.
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Wounded Unicorn posted:If I (in the United States) am just buying an imported car for parts through a channel such as that, and am not trying to register and drive it, is there anything legally stopping me from doing so? No, you can easily import a car for parts, but it better not be in one piece. My father-in-law helped run a shop that did this. They bought cars and either had the engines removed or just had the front clip sliced of and shipped over from Japan. ironblock posted:In the US, sure. The market for older cars is different in Japan. Ya, you can get that car federalized in the US. It would probably cost about $10K to $20k. US bumpers, US emissions, US speedometer, US HVAC, etc etc.
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http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/4276730282.html How is it possible to even own a digital device capable of producing an image this poor? Did they root around in their junk door for a digital camera from 1995? 
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Tai-Pan posted:http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/4276730282.html Cropped and enlarged from a phone photo, I'm guessing.
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VideoTapir posted:Cropped and enlarged from a phone photo, I'm guessing. you mean they took a picture of the phone screen right?
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At this point creating a replica of your car in Minecraft is better than most Craigslist pictures. At least it appears to be daytime and it looks somewhat like the right car.
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rscott posted:you mean they took a picture of the phone screen right? and emailed it to themselves as a pdf inserted into a word document as an OLE object.  I wish I was joking.
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Old people own corvettes, old people are confused by technology. This is all you need to know about blurry corvette.
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There's probably a business idea out there for "dude who posts your car to Craigslist and weeds out the scammers/retards" but I wouldn't want to do it myself. Maybe I could contract local photographers and outsource the rest to Mechanical Turk.
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Tai-Pan posted:How is it possible to even own a digital device capable of producing an image this poor? GnarlyCharlie4u posted:whelp it's a good thing i'm not allowed to bring my gun to work. GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Backpedaling... SH/SC then ran with this to see how absurd it could get: Screenshot of the image in Mario Paint pasted into Excel, recorded with a video camera, opened in Real Player for Mac, and then screen captured. It later got faxed and scanned a few times, had the link embedded in a QR code which was posted to Google+, commented on, and printed out.
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Galler posted:From the A Ticket came in... thread in Looks like a screenshot from GTA:San Andreas for PS2.
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Tai-Pan posted:No, you can easily import a car for parts, but it better not be in one piece. My father-in-law helped run a shop that did this. They bought cars and either had the engines removed or just had the front clip sliced of and shipped over from Japan. As far as I've read, this is the easiest way to get a street-legal "Skyline" in the US, import two halves of one and swap the functional bits over to an aftermarket shell (I think there's a company in South Africa that produces them) that you can then register as a "kit car". Fully legal since the actual car body never had a Nissan VIN.
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Fucknag posted:As far as I've read, this is the easiest way to get a street-legal "Skyline" in the US, import two halves of one and swap the functional bits over to an aftermarket shell (I think there's a company in South Africa that produces them) that you can then register as a "kit car". Fully legal since the actual car body never had a Nissan VIN. It's not. Everyone involved in that particular scam is in jail. http://jalopnik.com/5371967/feds-seize-illegal-nissan-skyline-gt+rs-in-cali
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Reading that, it sounds like they were importing original Nissan bodies from Japan, which was the issue since that makes them actual factory-built cars.
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Fucknag posted:Reading that, it sounds like they were importing original Nissan bodies from Japan, which was the issue since that makes them actual factory-built cars. You must be misremembering the last thread we had about this where the example of Noble/Rossion or whatever they are called was brought up, who are actually making body-in-whites in South Africa.
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Fucknag posted:As far as I've read, this is the easiest way to get a street-legal "Skyline" in the US, import two halves of one and swap the functional bits over to an aftermarket shell (I think there's a company in South Africa that produces them) that you can then register as a "kit car". Fully legal since the actual car body never had a Nissan VIN. Even if that actually works, it's way too much trouble to go through for a Skyline, they're good cars but they aren't worth jumping through hoops.
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Yeah, take it from me. Americans are sure to be in for a big disappointment when they finally get their R32s.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yeah, take it from me. Americans are sure to be in for a big disappointment when they finally get their R32s. I feel like the Skyline is pretty dated by comparison any more. Yeah it takes well to tuning, but theres several cars I can think of off the top of my head that will blow the doors off of it, and be cheaper. Plus its a 25 year old car, any that are imported are going to be pretty beat up by now. Isn't the G35/G37 the Skyline equivalent anyways?
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It has become a cult thing and no amount of logic or reason will keep nutbars from importing beat to poo poo skylines for way too much money and thinking they are cool as hell until their car gets confiscated and crushed by the feds.
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Ho Ho Ho! http://memphis.craigslist.org/cto/4293665553.html 
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kastein posted:It has become a cult thing and no amount of logic or reason will keep nutbars from importing beat to poo poo skylines for way too much money and thinking they are cool as hell until their car gets confiscated and crushed by the feds. Or when the frontal lobes in their brains fully develop and they realize they can get a car for half the price that can do everything better than an old Skyline. A new Fiesta ST can probably out perform one, and you'd have a warranty!
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It's this generation's vintage muscle car. There's that certain kind of magic to it, that you don't get from a Fiesta. I can understand wanting to try to have and work with an old R32 based on that alone. Not worth playing the gray market "totally a kit car" game with it though.
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I was in Great Falls, MT last year and some poor guy from Alberta had his R32 parked at a local mall. Every <20 year old in town with his pants down around their ankles was hanging around the car taking photos and putting their faces up to the windows like it was a Veyron or something.
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razorscooter posted:It's this generation's vintage muscle car. There's that certain kind of magic to it, that you don't get from a Fiesta. I can understand wanting to try to have and work with an old R32 based on that alone. That's fine, but how about picking a "vintage muscle car" that isn't illegal to keep in the U.S.? Never mind the fact you'd be driving a right hand drive car in the right loving lane, that reason alone makes it a dumb idea imo. Like I said, way too many hoops to jump through and way too much money to spend only to have it crushed by the feds. It's a dumb idea, and people that try to get away with it have it coming to them. Just buy a loving WRX or something.
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for the price of an R32.... you can get: BMW M5 or M3 WRX STI Camaro Z28 (new one) Lightly used C5 Yvette I'm sure there's others I'm missing.
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This is the most rotten 240 I've ever seen in my life  Would be a good parts car for my 244 (which also cost $450) if I had the cash.http://charlottesville.craigslist.org/cto/4281803705.html  
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kastein posted:It has become a cult thing and no amount of logic or reason will keep nutbars from importing beat to poo poo skylines for way too much money and thinking they are cool as hell until their car gets confiscated and crushed by the feds. Not true! This was posted on my Facebook feed a couple of weeks ago. This dude has some local ties to my friends here in Utah, he lives back east now. http://jalopnik.com/meet-the-man-who-legally-brought-the-first-r32-nissan-g-1493404343 E: not true about them getting confiscated/crushed. Yes they will be imported by people like me who did stage 3 weight reductions on gran tourismo 2 on every single skyline model and gush over its perfection. I won't import one, but I always have loved them. Somewhat Heroic fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Thing still looks pretty ratted out. Especially for 15-20k I'd much rather piss that away on a clean C5 vette.
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I think one of the factors is people here like them so much because they can't have them, it's the forbidden fruit of sports cars and it makes people jizz their pants to see one in person. When I was in the military and lived in Japan, we lusted after Fox Body Mustangs 
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I'm just amazed that someone on Craigslist spelled Hyundai correctly.
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You know, for all the people talking about what you could buy for R32 money AI sure is filled with people modding Volvos, VWs, Focuses, etc.
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BlackMK4 posted:You know, for all the people talking about what you could buy for R32 money AI sure is filled with people modding Volvos don't you dare
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atomicthumbs posted:don't you dare Just playing devil's advocate.
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In case you were thinking it might be a '76, you thought wrong. http://louisville.craigslist.org/cto/4292268880.html   quote:1978 PONTIAC TRANS AM Body fair condition. Newly rebuilt 400 engine - not in car. Brand new in the box Holley double pumper carburetor. Brand new still in the box aluminum intake. Car does not have motor in it. Does not run. GREAT project car. Leather interior in pretty good shape. $2500.00
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If that leather is pretty good then Burt Reynolds is young and spry.
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JaysonAych posted:In case you were thinking it might be a '76, you thought wrong. The body is fair compared to a lot of not '78 '76 trans ams I've seen. I've seen more than one vehicle with this color scheme today, the other being a dodge ram. I asked the owner of the dodge ram if he happened to own a del sol too and he said no. gently caress this is ugly. The brakes just top it off. http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/cto/4289570598.html 
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My favorite part is the rust on the rear quarter panel is so bad that it's killed the chunk of metal the bumper cover clips into. My rallycross Impreza used to do that on one side. It was embarrassing enough there. They painted the inside of the door jambs (difficult) but didn't bother with the trunk lid or interior (easy)? I can understand the engine bay... Dominic Tourettes-o posted:200k but it's a HONDA!!! I've seen more tasteful cars crushed 100% intact at the pick-n-pull.
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*high miles* BUT IT'S A *car make* is my new favorite Craigslist phrase. The fact that it is has the original timing belt, suspension components and hasn't seen an oil change in 120,000 miles is negated by the fact it was made by Toyota.
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Isn't the G35/G37 the Skyline equivalent anyways? Not just the equivalent - its the exact same car (with some spec differences like smaller DI engines in some models, CVT transmissions in others) My one:  That said those more modern Skylines are quite different from the earlier ones - actually here I'd say a decent R34 (the last 'proper' Skyline I guess) with the 2.5 would be worth more than my V35 despite my car being objectively better in pretty much every regard. BTW it was only ever the GT-R (and perhaps the upper spec RWD turbo to a much lesser exrent) that were desirable cars - the base model R32 came with a 90hp 1.8 remember.
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