Didn't think you could bring these to the US

[Chrysler kid]

Originally Posted by Baltothewolf

I thought there was a loophole that fast&furious used to get theirs into the states, which ended up getting patched due to the movies? Wasn't it something like importing the parts to the car and assembling it here in the states?

There is a show and display exemption the car can be registered under. Those movie cars are classified as show cars and they are never owned by the movie production company just financed through a third party movie vehicle provider

[darcane]

One of these popped up on B-a-T:
1990 Nissan Pao | Bring a Trailer

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Chrysler kid

If you must know the by far easiest way to own and drive a skyline illegally is to buy a 240sx as a rolling shell, and register that car to your name and put the plates and stickers on your skyline. If you just shave the words skyline off of the back panel no one would be the wiser. At least that's how the dozen or so people who have had their skylines as gray market cars usually do it.

The problem then becomes that the car attracts attention and you basically use the car on Sundays to get groceries because you're paranoid about taking it to a car meet because you never know who is in the crowd.

Once the shell is mounted into an already-registered rolling chassis, in theory it wouldn't be a violation of the law. This trick was used by Puma to sell its models as kit-cars in America.

[seifrob]

Interesting thread. All it sounds to me like that the US car manufacturers have their profits well protected.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by seifrob

All it sounds to me like that the US car manufacturers have their profits well protected.

Similar protectionist measures happen in other countries too. But in the end, they have a side-effect as the absence of a healthy competition doesn't incentive improvements regarding fuel-efficiency.