Uh, Guys? (And Girls) - Easy GT-Four Registration Stateside, Why didn't we see this before? Options

[Espo]

So my buddy, who's been telling me my planned 3s swap is a waste (since I have an ST and won't be trusting myself with doing the work) just found out you can register a GT-Four stateside with no limitations. Now the only problem might be getting a whole one through customs and not a clip...but we do know about custom vehicle registration, right?

Since I live in New York, I found this: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/homemade.htm

But...there are no kit car registration limitations, no...well really anything except lots of fees and waiting on inspections.

Seriously, this is plausible to do, isn't it? Why aren't more of us doing it? Considering a GT-Four used is probably cheaper than a swap any day.

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or better yet...have a canadian buy it, pay him more to drive it to you. buy him a good meal & plane ticket back home. then you'd have a very good chance because he drove it across and all you have to say is he sold it to you. that's what i was gonna try but the seller backed out

[JuMPiiN]

or better yet...have a canadian buy it, pay him more to drive it to you. buy him a good meal & plane ticket back home. then you'd have a very good chance because he drove it across and all you have to say is he sold it to you. that's what i was gonna try but the seller backed out

Thats a awesome idea, but what does the DMV do if that happens ? Can you still register it ?

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or better yet...have a canadian buy it, pay him more to drive it to you. buy him a good meal & plane ticket back home. then you'd have a very good chance because he drove it across and all you have to say is he sold it to you. that's what i was gonna try but the seller backed out

Thats a awesome idea, but what does the DMV do if that happens ? Can you still register it ?

well when i called my dmv, they said i had to register it as a kit vehicle. i talked to my insurance agent (close friend) and he said there are ways to get it registered and insured. if these "guys" are able to register skylines in MN, there are ways to get GT4's. it's a hard path but you'd have to figure it out. ill talk to my insurance agent again. but he did say i was able to register it if it came from canada and sold it here.

Register it as a GT4? Absolutely not. You'd still have to do a VIN swap, which is VERY illegal. Maybe you could register it as a kit car, but not as a GT4 for another 9 years. Everything with a GT4 is risky. You can't insure it as a GT4, so simply driving the car is a risk. Insure it as a regular GT, and you'll never get the value of the car if it's wrecked. You'll be out tons of cash. Get caught with an 'illegal' car and it's going straight to the crusher, and you're out thousands of dollars. If you've got the money to play with, by all means do it. Otherwise we're pretty much stuck with hopes and dreams.

see that's the thing. i didn't want to spend money and then at the end have it crushed. it's illegal to swap the vin and you could spend time in jail if caught.