Lil-Joe101 is Coming to the U.S. in September, Celica is Coming with me. Options

[Lil-Joe101]

Well I finally did it. I found a private importer here in Oki and my car is heading for the U.S. in February or March. I have been researching and I finally found the answer. For those of you who want to send ur Celis back to the U.S. Here is wut u do. SEND IT BACK AS A K.I.T CAR. Shell in one container and motor in the other. the importer I found is doing just that for me. So hopelfully I can make it to these state side meets. lol. P.S. Send the motor about 3 months apart from the shell. DOT is a stickler about this. But yeah I'm looking forward to seeing You all next year.

This post has been edited by Lil-Joe101: Nov 8, 2008 - 12:27 AM

[Random_Stranger]

Well I finally did it. I found a private importer here in Oki and my car is heading for the U.S. in February or March. I have been researching and I finally found the answer. For those of you who want to send ur Celis back to the U.S. Here is wut u do. SEND IT BACK AS A K.I.T CAR. Shell in one container and motor in the other. the importer I found is doing just that for me. So hopelfully I can make it to these state side meets. lol. P.S. Send the motor about 3 months apart from the shell. DOT is a stickler about this. But yeah I'm looking forward to seeing You all next year.

I was wondering how to do that. I want to pay someone off to have my vin destroyed after conversion and register as a kit car once I end up doing conversion. Then buy the vin# for it for $600-800, I wouldn't mind. Darn thing has a salvaged title anyways.

[Lil-Joe101]

YEah the importer here. Takes the car apart. Ships it as an assembliage. puts it back together in the states, vins, titles it, registers it, and I nsure it and drive away. lol.

[Axel04]

YEah the importer here. Takes the car apart. Ships it as an assembliage. puts it back together in the states, vins, titles it, registers it, and I nsure it and drive away. lol.

Man that's great. I've alway's to import a gt 4. How much is he charging you though?

[Lil-Joe101]

$12,000. Its alot but. At the same time its a good price. Less than a new Honda and an average price range for a used car. Plus like I said he imports it, titles it, registers it.

This post has been edited by Lil-Joe101: Nov 8, 2008 - 1:23 AM

[Culpable04]

12 K + the cost of the car itself


I guess you love your celica more than I love mine, for that price, you could have taken the mods out of yours, ship them to US, buy another 6gc and install the mods and have enough money left to swap decent engine in it, but like I said, you love the celi and I'm sure you'll be happy once you get it back and drive it on US roads.

Congrats !

[MaskedMan]

Where in the US are you going to be?

[j0e_p3t]

trade your current car for a gt-four first.

[Lil-Joe101]

Im trying to get stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri. If not then NC. The 12k is for dismantle, shipping, reassemble, title, and registeration.

[RickJamesBish]

Holy ****! So can this be done with a GT4 as well, or would those still be too risky?

[Lil-Joe101]

They can be done but its easier if the 4 was bone stock.

[NgoFcukinWay]

that's what a guy here in Houston did with his 2000 Toyota Chaser. Had it disassembled into pieces (body panels in one container, frame in another, and motor in another) and shipped over in the course of a few months, pieced it back together and is now pimpin ***** around town. I heard customs is catching on to that stuff lately though, but I dunno. It's just something I heard along the grapevine.

[Lil-Joe101]

Customs can look into it all they want. Its not illegal. A vehical is deffined as anything with a motor that can transport and object from point A to point B. So if there is no motor it is no longer classified as a vehicle. Its is mearly a shell.

[808celica]

good luck im talking to the guy who got the first silver R34 here in the islands. he hasnt messaged me back on the details , but he said he will

[Lil-Joe101]

Thanx man. Word to the wise. Choose u words carefully. When ur asking about a car. don't say vehicle or car. Call it an assemblige.

[RickJamesBish]

good luck im talking to the guy who got the first silver R34 here in the islands. he hasnt messaged me back on the details , but he said he will

I came.

[Lil-Joe101]

You came????

[RickJamesBish]

I came.

[Lil-Joe101]

Lol, I dont get it.

[RickJamesBish]

I can't really help you illustrate on that one.

Let's just say I'm very excited about a silver R34?

[azian_advanced]

offtopic but i went on a cruise last year and the cayman islands (west of jamaica) is loaded with Evos, R33 R34 skylines (a silver nicely modded one in fact), FTOs, and even saw my first curren there. basically felt like being in japan all over again but more tropical.

[Culpable04]

same thing is Dominican Republic, you can import any car you want, I think last year they passed a law that says you ahve to do a LHD conversion in order for the car to be legal, but there are still ways around that too.

[njccmd2002]

ok, what you guys can do, is just bring the shell, and buy an engine here from ebay. That makes it a kit car. buy a st205 with a bad engine, and then toss it.

[808celica]

ok, what you guys can do, is just bring the shell, and buy an engine here from ebay. That makes it a kit car. buy a st205 with a bad engine, and then toss it.

i've never seen a toyota with a bad engine

[Lil-Joe101]

Group buy, that can actually work. Just find someone to ship the shell for u.

[darthripley]

I heard customs is catching on to that stuff lately though, but I dunno. It's just something I heard along the grapevine.

that's exactly right.
sooner or later customs/DOT is going to realize these are real production cars & not kit cars.
some have illegal VIN's that belong to another car/model altogether. (e.g. a ST205 with a VIN belonging to an ST so it could be registered & titled here)
i wouldn't be suprised to hear in a couple of years about a lot of these cars getting confiscated & crushed.

personally, it's something i wouldn't do but, i'm old & don't want to see a car taken away from me & crushed