Noble or GT40 rep in Switzerland

[Lyons]

Hi all can anyone advise a fellow Petrolhead living in Zurich on bringing cars into the CH. I’ve dug around English forum, and understand everything that entails bringing a car in to Switzerland. I however would like to buy something more intresting than usual - like a replica GT40, or a Noble M12 from the UK, and bring it here. I know this would be very hard or impossible to get one of these cars road registered, as since they both lack an EU Certificate of Conformity, they would not pass the MFK test.

My insurance broker has advised he has clients who keep non-swiss registered cars in Switzerland for 9 months of the year, and 3 months out. Keeping the car out for 3 months of the year seems to be enough ‘reset’ the rule of having to road register a car after being in the country for one year. It could be kept on UK plates, and MOTed and taxed in the UK every time the 3 months come around.

If you can pull this off, then it could be a way of owning one of these cars in Switzeland.

Does any one know about this method, or do it? It seems to be a grey area, but would be interested to hear from anybody who has this experiance?

Cheers
Jamie

[RainerM]

Hello,

you might try here:

http://www.garagemessmer.ch/

We were there a few years (4??) back and had a look at a lovely TR6, he told us about a GT40 he had built based on a Tornado set,
lots, lots of work, not only on built quality ;-)

Good luck.

Rainer-CH

[Lyons]

Hi Rainer, thanks for the link. As you say, looks like these guys built up a Kit. Pics on the site don't show reg plates, so unsure if its even road registered! This is unfortunaly not the route i could take at the moment - not least due to time commitments!

Incidently, there is a nice white GTD40 over at http://www.oldtimergalerie.ch/e/inhalt.htm. Looks like its even swiss road registered - but a price !


Does any one still keep a UK registered car here in CH after the 12 month period has run out?

[RainerM]

Lyons said:

Hi Rainer, thanks for the link. As you say, looks like these guys built up a Kit. Pics on the site don't show reg plates, so unsure if its even road registered! This is unfortunaly not the route i could take at the moment - not least due to time commitments!

Incidently, there is a nice white GTD40 over at http://www.oldtimergalerie.ch/e/inhalt.htm. Looks like its even swiss road registered - but a price !


Does any one still keep a UK registered car here in CH after the 12 month period has run out?

I know the car at Oldtimer G. :-). The Messmer car is likely to be run on dealer plates :-(, as far as I remember it passed the MFK, don't ask me how....

Be cautious about driving with UK plates more than 12 months, you might have problems when being stopped for whatever reasons, if I am right you also have to apply for a CH driving-licence
within one year after your arrival in CH,there might be exceptions if you are driving on a regular base to the UK, I am not "fluent" concerning these problems.

Rainer

[G5BRA]

Be careful with the 1 year rule, it only applies when you've just moved into CH and then with some restrictions.
If you're already resident in CH then you "must" declare the car on the border and import/register it in CH, a complex and expensive affair.
James