On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, W. Lee Hendrick wrote: > At 10:33 PM -0800 2/28/00, Jason Neuman wrote: > >What they do is cut the vin numbers out of old beetles and put them > >on the new ones so they can legally be sold in the USA. > > That's legal?!?
Weeeeellll... sort of. It's not really legal, since there's not really any guarantee that the vehicle has everything necessary for US crash/safety regulations. However, if the vin was old enough, you could probably get around most of the regulations. If anybody ever found out they might hang you out to dry, but the fact remains that it is still the same car that was built in the 60's and 70's... only it's brand new. There was some talk on the list about this being done for mini coopers that people were importing from the UK, using vins that were registered in the US. I bet those are tough to find though! Much harder than an old beetle. -- John Caldwell [email protected] 89 GTI 16v _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
