What would be a resonable price to pay for an R33 skyline?

[hmong337]

I can confidently say that 90% of your Skylines in the U.S. are being leaked through Canada's 15 year importation law. They're all illegal there unless you've recently brought in a 1989 GTR.

[n2oinferno]

Originally Posted by Dave-ROR

Actually, it's not.


No R33 except a specific group brought in by MotoRex is federalized for usage on US public roads. Some of those were later deteremined to be illegal even (due to MotoRex taking shortcuts), but not a single R33 brought into the country today is legal not matter what you do to it.

So basically a whole lot of gray area? It's been on this NHTSA list for a while, but I guess it's hard to find an importer to take the necessary steps, or what?

http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/elig11152013.pdf

actually before posting this I went ahead and searched.. So these are the changes necessary, I suppose. And any registered importer would need to make them before the car is legal?
http://www.regulations.gov/contentSt...ontentType=pdf

edit: and here's the actual decision to rescind when apparently they had originally decided it was okay to import R32, R33, and R34
http://www.regulations.gov/contentSt...ontentType=pdf

tl;dr version

Final Decision
Accordingly, on the basis of the
foregoing, NHTSA hereby rescinds its
decision, granted on November 15,
1999, that 1990–1999 Nissan GTS and
GTR Passenger cars are eligible for
importation into the United States.
NHTSA hereby decides that Nissan R33
model GTS and GTR passenger cars
manufactured between January 1996
and June 1998 are eligible for
importation into the United States
because they have safety features that
comply with, or are capable of being
altered to comply with, all applicable
Federal motor vehicle safety standards.

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by n2oinferno

So basically a whole lot of gray area? It's been on this NHTSA list for a while, but I guess it's hard to find an importer to take the necessary steps, or what?

http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/import/elig11152013.pdf

actually before posting this I went ahead and searched.. So these are the changes necessary, I suppose. And any registered importer would need to make them before the car is legal?
http://www.regulations.gov/contentSt...ontentType=pdf

A registered importer has to do so, but it's a specific one (MotoRex). Anyone else would go through a lot of paperwork and effort which makes it non so profitable (which is why motorex cheated the system and got caught). Currently any Skyline found in a container is just crushed when customs finds it. They'll even pretend to be buyers, seize and crush them.


Skylines are the biggest risk in JDM imported cars.

[n2oinferno]

Originally Posted by Dave-ROR

A registered importer has to do so, but it's a specific one (MotoRex). Anyone else would go through a lot of paperwork and effort which makes it non so profitable (which is why motorex cheated the system and got caught). Currently any Skyline found in a container is just crushed when customs finds it. They'll even pretend to be buyers, seize and crush them.


Skylines are the biggest risk in JDM imported cars.

Interesting. I figured once they laid the groundwork then anyone could come in and do it as well.

Oh well, we'll get our Skylines when they're twenty five years ancient.

[BRZZZZZZZZZZ]

LOL R33 GTS-Ts can be had for under $10k in Canada...

[Turbo95eg6]

Always thought RHD was cool when I was a little kid ricer. Not so much anymore.

[Berhardsson]

My r33 gtr is for sale. 15k

The only problem is that the car is in sweden

Here we have mant rhd cars. I dont think its hard to drive.
Give it a week and its no problem.




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[mav1178]

Originally Posted by mike the snake

I've considered getting a Supra, or maybe a Skyline, something right hand drive. Just wondering what an R33 Skyline might fetch these days?

Read these two sites:

http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticl...-Old-Rule.aspx

http://www.showordisplay.com/

The first piece was mostly written by Sean Morris. Merritt is his wife.

-alex

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by BRZZZZZZZZZZ

LOL R33 GTS-Ts can be had for under $10k in Canada...

Yeah I've seen them for 8-9k in the US before as well.