Re: importing

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

At 12:03 AM 1/5/03, George Graves wrote:
>The short answer is you can't.
>
>The long answer is that MOST recent Alfas one sees in this country
>since Alfa left in 1995, and older Alfas one sees here occasionally
>which were never imported even when Alfa did sell to these shores come
>from people who have emigrated to this country and who owned said Alfas
>as their private property when they came here. These cars are exempt
>from complying with anything save individual state smog laws. Some
>belong to diplomats, of course, and they too are exempt from US safety
>regulations AND local smog laws.
>
>Other than that, there are two ways to for an American citizen to bring
>the cars in:

There is a third way, George. American citizens who are bona fide foreign
residents for a period of time may bring in a car which became their
personal property while a foreign resident.

Greg
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>
>George Graves
>'86 GTV-6
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