Importing a Skyline

KAMiN · #1 07-15-2002, 03:40 AM

Well this is my first post on this board. im a regular over at www.honda-tech.com

anyway, In the next couple years i want to bring a skyline into the US but im not paying some god awful 100,000$ from motorex for an r34 gtr.

I am planning on going to japan in the next couple years, buying one while im there. then having it fregithed back to here. Im just curious if there is anyway to leagally register it here or am i going to have to use it for a track only car?

someone reccomended buying an old 240 and just swapping the vin number into the skyline then saying its a full conversion. but i dont like the idea of that.

SkylineUSA · #2 07-15-2002, 10:18 AM

Yes, there are ways you could do that, but they are not truely legal. Heck, you could strip it down and re-build it and apply for a kit car title. The only legal way of doing it is going through MotoRex.

NiteskyR · #3 07-24-2002, 11:58 AM

hi tony ( skylineusa)
well my car was wrote off ( uneconomic repair ) hmmm, take note people
so i have now just started , well sent money !! to japan
for my new one, well new ish. its a complex procedure, but i think i have it all sorted with luck it should be here in about 35 days
will post pics a soon as i get it
ps are u still on aol

ures ¨˜'*·~-.¸¸.-~·*'˜¨¯.... NITE....¨˜'*·~-.¸¸.-~·*'˜¨¯

SkylineUSA · #4 07-24-2002, 04:34 PM

Hey Mart,

Yeah, ptntatty on aol. PM with your number and I'll give you a call.

SkylineUSA · #5 07-24-2002, 04:38 PM

So tell us about your new ride. I hope its a GTR, if not your going to see my exhaust pipes even quicker

Gonthrax · #6 07-25-2002, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by SkylineUSA
So tell us about your new ride. I hope its a GTR, if not your going to see my exhaust pipes even quicker

Yes yes, you've had the training wheels for a while now... It's time to get a big boy toy

Or atleast a 4

SkylineUSA · #7 07-26-2002, 06:25 AM

Gonthrax,

Just to let you know I just bought that rear grip package from Maximum Motorsports last week, you know the one, where those guys installed it on a stock LX and it did over 72mph in the slalem.

Before this is installed I would be a sitting duck (quack,quack) to any of the cars over here. In a straight line I would be OK, but if you put one turn in my way

I am off to milk the cows

So it looks like I am going to be under a deadline for me to get everything installed before Nite gets his ride, or I will only being seeing his four round lights, if I even that

I am installing some Corbeau seats this weekend. I will take some pics.

NiteskyR · #8 07-27-2002, 05:04 AM

hahaha very funny
no its not a GTR , 1995 GTs25T again 47,000 kms ( just run In ) in white, aero kit , advan 17 alloys , hks turbo timer, blitz bov, some pillar guage, exhaust of unknown make , looks like a super drager, blitz pod filter , very clean car going by the pics .
it is being shiped out of yokohama aug 6th arrive southapton sept 8th

it was a price thing

SkylineUSA · #9 07-27-2002, 10:09 AM

Nice car Nite,

Cant wait tell you get the chance to see how my car looks from the rear

I saw the pics, I like it all white. We will try to make a trip down to see ya, in mid Sept. Would that be cool?

NiteskyR · #10 07-27-2002, 11:18 AM

yer yer tony they all say that , till it comes 2 it
sept is ok

Forsteen · #11 07-29-2002, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by KAMiN
Well this is my first post on this board. im a regular over at www.honda-tech.com

anyway, In the next couple years i want to bring a skyline into the US but im not paying some god awful 100,000$ from motorex for an r34 gtr.

I am planning on going to japan in the next couple years, buying one while im there. then having it fregithed back to here. Im just curious if there is anyway to leagally register it here or am i going to have to use it for a track only car?

someone reccomended buying an old 240 and just swapping the vin number into the skyline then saying its a full conversion. but i dont like the idea of that.

I believe you have to have the car in your possession for a year in order to bring the car over if you are not a business like Motorex. I'm not sure though.
Yeah, the only way to legally bring the car over is to go through Motorex. The cheapest you are gonna get if you get the car in Japan is $16,000 not including the all the bs you have to go through with customs. And that is trying to bring even a GTS-t. You are gonna have to look at a race standard vehicle. Believe me there is a guy over here trying to bring his R32 GTR right now to the states. He did his research. I'm talking about nearly gutting the thing and having all the racing features to make it racing. As for a show car forget it also. There was someone trying to bring back a car that was only a production of around a few hundred made in Australia and they denied them.
I'm not trying to discourage it is just that do your research fully and not half-assed so you don't get to customs and look like a deer in the headlights look.

Gonthrax · #12 07-31-2002, 12:35 PM

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Originally posted by SkylineUSA
Gonthrax,

Just to let you know I just bought that rear grip package from Maximum Motorsports last week, you know the one, where those guys installed it on a stock LX and it did over 72mph in the slalem.

Oh oh, this could be trouble

You should have a go at the nearest road course, and compair times

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