Re: importing

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

Yes, if an American living overseas buys a non-US market car, they can 
bring it back with them as personal property. But I don't think US 
officials are actually so stupid as not to realize that some Americans 
might make deals with American friends living overseas to bring them 
back a desirable car. So I suspect (don't know for sure) that there is 
probably some law forbidding returning Americans from selling or 
otherwise transferring ownership of their non-US market cars for some 
amount of time following their return. Its just too apparent of a 
scheme not to have been anticipated.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6





On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 13:55 US/Pacific, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:12:02 -0500
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: importing
>
> What about Americans who spend an extended period of time living 
> abroad?
> Can they bring cars back with them (I happen to have 3 friends studying
> abroad this year, for periods of 10+ months at a time--two in Italy in 
> and
> one in Holland)?  If not, you should make some Alfa club contacts in 
> Europe
> and see if they know anyone moving to the USA in the near future--I'm 
> sure
> someone could be convinced to buy you a car for a small (relative to 
> the
> price of a new car) fee.
>
> - -Joe
> PS> I think that the Autodelta cars are in fact available now.
>
> - --On Sunday, January 5, 2003 7:02 PM +0000 alfa-digest
> <owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided> wrote:
>
>
> > [these cars] 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.
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