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Discussion in '288GTO/F40/F50/Enzo/LaFerrari/F80' started by msgsobe, Nov 11, 2007.

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  1. msgsobe

    msgsobe Formula 3

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    #1 msgsobe, Nov 11, 2007
    At a porsche meet today, someone insisted you are entlitled to a one time EPA/DOT exemption and can bring in ANY car, regardless of age, from overseas, without EPA/DOT compliance, once in a lifetime. I never heard of that. he was adamant. Is this for real? Too good to be true, I say, urban legend.
     
  2. Napolis

    Napolis Three Time F1 World Champ
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    Jim Glickenhaus
    #2 Napolis, Nov 11, 2007
    There used to be a one time EPA waiver if car met DOT but I think there no longer is:

    http://www.importexporthelp.com/importing-cars.htm
     
  3. Challenge64

    Challenge64 F1 Veteran
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    #3 Challenge64, Nov 11, 2007
    I tried to learn a little more about that as I have heard that too.

    I never learned anything more about it other than being a rumor, but what I did learn is that once a car is 25 years old, it can pass through the Federal DOT/EPA w/o a conversion. In otherwords a 288 GTO made in 1985 can be brought into the US in 2010 w/o that lenghty and costly convestion process.

    Sorry doesnt really help other than to say I tried and failed to learn more.
     

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