You'd think so. But I think it's definitely worth looking into. With used car prices what they are in some parts of Europe, it might be worth having one of my friends grab a Fiat Uno Turbo and see what we can do.
Joe
--On Sunday, January 5, 2003 1:58 PM -0800 George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided> wrote:
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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