2002 Alfa Romeo 166 Autodelta @ auction in FL

Too bad this Autodelta kit isnt as pretty as the regular version. I saw a 164 last week.

 

Florida is one of the easiest, if not THE easiest state in the US to title and register non-USDM cars. I am sure you could title a Matchbox car in that state.

I don't know how it would be titled any other way other than with a Florida assigned VIN and technically it would be state legal, not federal.

I wouldn't own the car in California with that status, but wouldn't live in too much fear in many other states.

How it arrived? Could be like how some of the JDM cars arrive: in pieces (declared as parts), then reassembled. Shoot, a guy here in Idaho simply had two cars shipped from Japan and rolled the dice on whether customs would find them in the container. They didn't.

 

Autodelta was importing them for a while and they were even removing the Alfa badges and replacing them with Autodelta badges. Feds decided one day to crack down on them and that was it for the 166 in the states.

 

Dont they have anything better to do? How are these cars any threat to the US?

 

That sounds somewhat similar to what Kaizo was trying to do with the Nissan Skyline GT-Rs a few years back.

 

It's a USA certified car?


Do European cars of that era have OBD-II?

 

The Alfa 166 built 2000 and later had OBD-2.

 

I'd love to have that... damn, not enough pennies in the jar...

 

We had several in Illinois from Autodelta. I also know of several up in Wisconsin. They were US street legal. It was FIAT that stopped Autodelta from importing them.


Here is a 156 from this area that was US legal.



Tom Tanner/Ferrari Expo 2012-Chicago March 17th 2012
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