If you know anyone in Europe stationed on a US military base, you can offer to give them a few thousand bucks to buy a car and have it shipped with them when they do a PCS (Permanent Change of Station) move.
So if you have a nephew who is station in Germany and that is his fulltime station, after his tour is up in a few years, ask him to buy a car six months to a year before he is transferred to a new duty station in the continental US.
The military (last I recall) will ship his car for free to his new duty station. After he arrives and is settled at his new military base, he can sell his car if he wishes to you. Give him a nice tip for his birthday as a thank you.
Keep in mind, though he may have German license plates and will only be allowed to drive it that way for a few months before being required to pass inspection and get a US State license plate and registration it it.
I remember a friend with Hawaii plates driving around in NJ for 6 months. He would get pulled over by cops several times a week, but they would let him off after they found he was military, and strongly urge him to get it registered locally.
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Originally Posted by rmay635703
There has always been the comment that it is impossible to own a euro car here in the states, I disagree. There are active groups actively transporting certain cars from europe and japan here to the states and getting them registered, like the 2CV folks.
So the question is how much and how hard would it be for an ecomodding group to go through this undertaking? Going it completely alone can be expensive but I have seen 2CV's selling around here that were imports in the $4-$5k area, it must not be impossible.
Any ideas? I might be the one crazy ******* that brings one over here. If I remember there are already a handfull of Lupos here in the US, probably from Solders returning, who knows?
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