[alfa] Re: Boots bonnets and trunks

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't rub it in. Every time I think of our stupid automobile 
legislation and the dumb laws governing importation of cars for private 
use and the goddamn idiot customs people who enforce them, my blood 
pressure goes through the roof. You gotta know that a country has its 
priorities screwed up when Immigration can't find a foreign Muslim in 
the US on a student visa, who's disappeared into the general population 
to plot who-only-knows-what, but US Customs will be knocking at your 
door on the one-hundred-and eighty-first day after you sign an 
agreement at dockside to upgrade your imported car to idiotic US 
standards within 6 months; ready to haul said car to the crusher and 
gleefully take the bond you posted. While out of the other side of it's 
mouth, our benighted government lets Americans who buy non-importable 
cars overseas while living and working there to bring them back as 
personal property without having to do anything except get them 
smogged. Talk about double standards.  Aieee!

George Graves 86 GTV-6

On Dec 13, 2003, at 1:47 PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:28:34 -0700
> From: C M Smith <cmsmith@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Boots bonnets and trunks
> BTW, Until the US changes its unique automobile manufacturing 
> legislation
> you are doomed to a diet of less and less interesting cars, more 
> expensive
> cars, and the ubiquitous and absurd SUV phenomenon. Not only will Alfa
> never return, neither will many others. Just carefully examine the 
> lack of
> choice you have as consumers of automobiles compared to the 60's and 
> 70's.
> Not to mention how ugly most NA spec models have become. At a certain 
> level
> a boring looking car is just ugly.
> Michael Smith
> White 1991 164L
> Original owner
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