I heard that that law expired in mid to late 80's.
However, there are number of late model grey market cars going
around in US. Unmodified late models registered in US and owned by
US citizens. Obviously there were some back doors that allowed these
cars in but I heard that after the 9/11 most of these doors got
closed by tightening the border.
TJ
- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, gary freeman <riven2649@y...>
wrote:
> Glad to hear from someone who is up on these laws as
> I've been out of touch. I've been wondering what
> happened to the gray market law that allowed an
> individual to import one car older than five years
> only once. Would love it if you can enlighten me.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- tjp1974 <tjp74@c...> wrote:
>
> > Assuming you are France citizen and trying to bring
> > the car into USA,
> > you can do that without any modification to your car
> > but for ONLY 1
> > year and after that you have to export the car or
> > distroy it. YOu
> > can't sell it to anyone either.
> >
> > How do you find out if it conforms to US
> > specification or not? First,
> > short answer is your 206 does not conforms to the US
> > federal/DOT/EPA
> > specifications. There is no reason for Peugeot to
> > spend millions of
> > dollor to modify and test to meet the US crash/EPA
> > standard if they
> > have no intension to sell the car in US. Plus if
> > your car meets the
> > specification it would have a lable attached to the
> > body that reads
> > something like "this car meets all US DOT crash
> > standard etc".
> >
> > How do you make your car "conforms"? It can be done
> > but at a huge
> > cost. Unless Peugeot can write you a official letter
> > saying that the
> > 206 body structure is fundamentally designed to meet
> > the US crash
> > standard, it can't be just modified but you will
> > have to supply
> > several cars for DOT to crash test them. After
> > passing the crash test,
> > you have to spend $$$$ to modify other necessary
> > stuffs. And then you
> > need to supply several engines to EPA to have them
> > test the emission.
> > This whole process costs huge money and time and
> > only a big company
> > intending to import and sell hundreds of cars in US
> > can do this.
> >
> > So I would say forget about it. US law is made so
> > that no one besides
> > car manufacturer can import cars into USA.
> >
> > TJ
> >
> > --- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, "concordebermuda"
> > <howard.taylor@c...> wrote:
> > > Hi. New member. We are looking to import a 206
> > Cabriolet we have in
> > > France. Anyway, does anyone have contacts that can
> > help with this
> > > process. We have looked at the govt. websites re
> > all the DOT
> > > requirements and EPA. How do I find out if the car
> > "conforms"/ Are
> > > there agents out there?
> > > Thanks,Howard
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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