yep, you arnt gonna beable to get it in or you would see millions of skylines here!

 

Here is a link to before mentioned list http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/...LIG102803.html If you scroll through it it says 87-95 Mazda Rx-7 are eligible for importation write down the vsp number and call the nhtsa mention that number and see what or if you have to do to get it legalized

 

You can't tell anything from a picture. The car could have been wrecked and repaired for all you know ?
Are you getting any history with the car ?
It's a very risky venture unless you can have someone reliable to check the car out before you pay for it and it's shipped. check this for example, was up forsale the other day in Japan. The car would of sold for peanuts. Someone like yourself could of seen this and thought yeah I want this and not know that the rear floor panel, n/s rear inner & outer quarter panel had been replaced. and the nears side and rear of the car been repaired, suspension out of alignment and thought you got a good deal.

 

pic for an example.

 

You can't tell anything from a picture. The car could have been wrecked and repaired for all you know ?
Are you getting any history with the car ?
It's a very risky venture unless you can have someone reliable to check the car out before you pay for it and it's shipped. check this for example, was up forsale the other day in Japan. The car would of sold for peanuts. Someone like yourself could of seen this and thought yeah I want this and not know that the rear floor panel, n/s rear inner & outer quarter panel had been replaced. and the nears side and rear of the car been repaired, suspension out of alignment and thought you got a good deal.

 

You can't tell anything from a picture. The car could have been wrecked and repaired for all you know ?
Are you getting any history with the car ?
It's a very risky venture unless you can have someone reliable to check the car out before you pay for it and it's shipped. check this for example, was up forsale the other day in Japan. The car would of sold for peanuts. Someone like yourself could of seen this and thought yeah I want this and not know that the rear floor panel, n/s rear inner & outer quarter panel had been replaced. and the nears side and rear of the car been repaired, suspension out of alignment and thought you got a good deal.

 

Sorry for all these duplicates my forums seems to be a bit messed up.

 

Well sorry to burst your bubble but the NHTSA isn't going to let 92-95 rx7s into the states period..

THE CARS ARE NOT THE SAME.. it is a right hand drive car hense the structual intregity is diffrent..

What the first person said about needed a signed document from Mazda NA or Japan stating it meets all NHTSA requirments will allow it to be imported..

Only way to get a used rx7 is if it is over 20 years old.. so 1983 and older rx7s are elligable to be imported with out any modifications haha..


Now lets say you find out only thing that needs to be done to make the car legal is put in a cross memeber in the doors.. Ok thats fine.. But are you going to pay the 400% car value bond.
DOT inspection, EPA testing and customs taxes?

So you buy the car for 7k and the value of the car is 7k
you need to have 7k for the car plus shipping cost 1.k
then 28,000 dollars BOND. Now Customs is going to have the car for a mandatory 2 weeks and you have Import taxes on that.. I believe that is about 10% of the cost of the car.. so now we are on 8700 for the cost of the car.. Plus a 28,000 dollar bond.. Ok after customs you have a certain amount of time to make the car EPA and don't give me that I live in a place that doesn't cheack emmisions.. Umm sorry this is federal and applys ANYWARE Good luck getting it to pass. all 92-95 rx7s brought in by mazda passed only cause mazda did the EPA cheacks them self and probably did it several times before it passed..

These test cost a few hundred dollars a try and will take more then 1 try I garentee it..

Ok so now you got the EPA stuff done..
You gotta get the DOT stuff.. This involves the side braces.. Ok heres another cost and not to mention another 2 week hold..

Ok so now you passes all the tests you paid for the tests, taxes, documentation fees title fees registration fees import fees and anything else needed to be paid..

you went from a 7k car to a 15k car with 28000 dollars held by the governtment to get the car legalized..


7k + shipping + customs tax + EPA/DOT documentation fee + epa test fee + dot inspection fee + Title fee + registation fee + state TAX + misc parts needed =

@~ 12-17k

At that kindof price why not just buy one in the US allready and not risk anything

 

if you want one, just buy/rent a container and ship it over illegally in that (it has been done many times before)

that or just smuggle it in via ripping it apart and reassembling it here

 

Good luck with customs on the container idea.

 

got right hand drive?

 

yeh you'd be really l33t when you pay tolls or go through drive throughs, or drive on a 2 lane road.

 

I'm in the U.S.Virgin Islands and we can import cars from japan.Then ship it to the continental U.S.

 

Yea it would be easyer to ship to Canada or the US Virgin Islands then ship it to America. But anyways, Crackers you are some what misinformed. The Bond is 150% of the vehicals value and that could be had through an insurance company for a fraction of the cost of the total bond. And it seems to me that the easyest possible route to take is to have the car shipped to a a licenced importer.

 

I know of 2 guys which have done this they did not use to check as hard before 9/11

 

Ok, give up the goods, where are you finding these cars?

 

What about one of the 500 produced in 1999?..Wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of those.

 

Never mind, found the link. Nice looking car!!!! But indeed risky. Hey if you have the resources what the hell--teach us all a lesson. Perhaps we could all benefit from a 12 step Rotary annonymous thread. The supply is dwindling, and unless they come up with a viable 4th gen. we'll all be suffering in about 5-10 years or so....or fighting for the remains, much of which will be in Japan.

 

When theres a will, there is a way. Its not always the rigyh way, but its a way. My best friend, Ariel, was in love with the EVO V, he didn't want the 8 which came here to the states, he wanted to 5. He dd his research and found that it could not be legally imported and driven as a street car. He imported it anyway, made the right connections with people and when it came, he showed that it was purely a race car by claiming all the events and showing events he had registered in. Paperwork and money talks. Then when he got it here, he put it in a wearhouse and we started working on it, we took it apart almost completely (By the way, the evo 5 is a beautiful car) we wanted to know as much as we could about the car, the car that resembled it the most is the mitsubishi mirage. So we went to the junkyard, bought a wrecked mirage ($500) with a salvaged title and just transfered the engine plates and windhield plates to the Lancer Evo. He got his insurance, there are no emissions here in FL, he paid fo his tag, for the rest of the world, he is driving a 4dr Mitsubishi MIrage with a really nice body kit, a turbo and some sort of conversion for the steering wheel to be on the right. We drive to school everyday together, an FD and an Evo. He is proud and well he should be, he ended up spending about 16k but considering that the car alone cost him 13.5k with shipping and all, I think that he did pretty good. If he can do that with a car that was never here, then you can definitely do it with an fd, and I know tons of wrecked fds. Its all about how bad you want it, He wasn't doing it to save money, he was doing it because he loved the car and wanted to be different. My point is my opening sentenc,e if theres a will, theres a way. Good Luck.

 

thats a nice story, but kind of far fetched for a high school kid to pull off. how did he get the loan? unless hes 18, he could not even get a loan, and even being 18, he would have to have good credit to get a loan for $13,500. the only way he would have an imported evo 5 is if he bought if from someone else that imported it or his parents imported it. illegally importing a car has some pertty hefty fines, not to mention time in prison, so i dont think any adult (his parents/guardian) in their right mind would try this.

also i thought the evo's have the same chassis/body as the lancer, not mirage's. correct me if im wrong.

 

There is no possible way to import legaly any rx7 newer then january 1st 1996

THe reason being is all cars then needed to have an OBDII system..

Allthough thats only for an RI to sell.. It maybe possible if you're doing the importing your self but there would be a contract saying you could not resell the car because of that..

Duno Im doubting they will change anything

 

buy it its rhd !

 

Hello? Thats not a story from a friend of a friend, thats a true story, from MY friend, I worked on that car with him, i see it EVERYDAY, Ive even driven it a few times, he has alot of money, hes one of those rich boys, Im not that lucky, Im still paying off my car, but he dished it all out, that was his 18th birthday present from his dad. Some people are blessed with money, if you got the money for it, I say go for it. If not, save up for it! The point is, it IS possible.

 

And the insurance company didn't notice the steering wheel on the other side of the car?

 

how about fast food?