How is this possible?
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Has a Tuscan ever been legally exported to the US? I hear you can do it if you get some sort of work done on it by a government-approved garage...where would one begin to look for such info? Or might this lucky Tuscan owner just be someone from the EU who has done a temporary import?
Has a Tuscan ever been legally exported to the US? I hear you can do it if you get some sort of work done on it by a government-approved garage...where would one begin to look for such info? Or might this lucky Tuscan owner just be someone from the EU who has done a temporary import?
Probably.
There is only one way you can import one of these cars to be registered for street use in the US.
You need to import a rolling chassis. That means importing a car sans engine, but equally importantly one with a chassis that was never sold as a commercial vehicle and VINed in the UK. So if you got the factory to build a car and sell it as a rolling chassis you could import that and install a rebuilt US engine that does have a VIN and transfer that vin to your new 'kit car'.
Alternately you can take an existing car, pull out its engine and chassis both, and if you can find a virgin chassis somewhere in the UK (for warranty work perhaps), you could then call the result a rolling chassis (again no VINed engine or chassis in it, so its considered parts, not a car). Then do the same thing, import it as parts and drop an engine in.
No way though to have imported a Sag with a Speed 6, etc and have it be road legal certified and registered.
There is only one way you can import one of these cars to be registered for street use in the US.
You need to import a rolling chassis. That means importing a car sans engine, but equally importantly one with a chassis that was never sold as a commercial vehicle and VINed in the UK. So if you got the factory to build a car and sell it as a rolling chassis you could import that and install a rebuilt US engine that does have a VIN and transfer that vin to your new 'kit car'.
Alternately you can take an existing car, pull out its engine and chassis both, and if you can find a virgin chassis somewhere in the UK (for warranty work perhaps), you could then call the result a rolling chassis (again no VINed engine or chassis in it, so its considered parts, not a car). Then do the same thing, import it as parts and drop an engine in.
No way though to have imported a Sag with a Speed 6, etc and have it be road legal certified and registered.
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