Nah... I'm calmed down now. They can have the car back. I'm not going to fight it just to have it as a track-only car. I'd be violating federal laws if I put it on the road, and negligence is no excuse. Then again, I doubt the cops would even know it can't be driven on US roads. To them it's just another one of the cars from my collection.
We have dealer plates (which carry their own insurance, 'cause I have to) and so I don't register most of the cars - and they haven't been inspected, meaning they lack an official inspection sticker on the windshield. On dealer plates, you can do all that. So, I just have the mechanics throw a set on the car I'm going to drive and call it good.
So, I could probably drive it on the streets without anyone noticing. But, it's violating a pretty serious law or ten on the federal level. I'm sure they'd just fine me, but I'm also pretty sure they'd make me pay the maximum amount and not the minimum amount. I don't really want to deal with that.
Plus, every time I'd drive the car it'd remind me to be pissed off with MB. I'm gonna be pretty mad at them for a while. Mad and disappointed. How the fuck do they make a mistake like that? Not once, but twice? They delivered the car TWICE! I assume it went back to Germany - and then they STILL SENT IT BACK!!!
I'm just going to let it go. I sent a reply email already, telling them to come pick their car up. If they don't pick it up within a week, I'm going to make them also pay storage fees.
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