Why would you do that when the car company has already brought them here for you?
Why would you do that when the car company has already brought them here for you?
No but it ain't hard depending on vehicle
No but it ain't hard depending on vehicle
Getting it to the US is easy. Registering it and getting it insured and everything can be a nightmare if you don't know the right people. You can spend the better part of a year asking all the people and agencies involved, be told it's fine, then bring it over and spend 6 months to only find out you're actually fucked.
The good thing is that in America it usually just comes down to cost. Like buying a new carburator identical to the Japanese one but with an American market serial number on it.
If you can find a business that regularly imports cars you can have them import it and just sell it to you. A business that does it several times a month will not only know what paperwork to push but the government employees in those offices will be familiar with them and everything will go smoothly. You try and do the same and suddenly every idiot along the way will nit pick wherever they can.
Getting it to the US is easy. Registering it and getting it insured and everything can be a nightmare if you don't know the right people. You can spend the better part of a year asking all the people and agencies involved, be told it's fine, then bring it over and spend 6 months to only find out you're actually fucked.
The good thing is that in America it usually just comes down to cost. Like buying a new carburator identical to the Japanese one but with an American market serial number on it.
If you can find a business that regularly imports cars you can have them import it and just sell it to you. A business that does it several times a month will not only know what paperwork to push but the government employees in those offices will be familiar with them and everything will go smoothly. You try and do the same and suddenly every idiot along the way will nit pick wherever they can.
I've heard they have to be over 20 years old. You want that right handed steering wheel don't ya?
I've heard they have to be over 20 years old. You want that right handed steering wheel don't ya?
25 years actually.
25 years actually.
Years ago I looked at getting a Delica and it's a huge fade in the Pacific Northwest, that bled over a little bit into some parts of Idaho, Nevada and Montana. There's absolutely no room inside those things and all they really have is the 4x4. I also figured that driving around a 25 year old vehicle isn't really smart because things are just going to break because they're old and getting parts will be a bear. I know people are importing other vehicles too not just the Delicas from Japan. Some of their other vans are really cool looking. Still the whole right hand stuff is tricky, you're blind spots are completely fucked.
Years ago I looked at getting a Delica and it's a huge fade in the Pacific Northwest, that bled over a little bit into some parts of Idaho, Nevada and Montana. There's absolutely no room inside those things and all they really have is the 4x4. I also figured that driving around a 25 year old vehicle isn't really smart because things are just going to break because they're old and getting parts will be a bear. I know people are importing other vehicles too not just the Delicas from Japan. Some of their other vans are really cool looking. Still the whole right hand stuff is tricky, you're blind spots are completely fucked.
1988 Toyota pickup long bed
1988 Toyota pickup long bed
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