prices of legnums in japan

[Oggie]

are pretty darn cheap as.

a black 5 spd legnum vr4 80k kms ,sold for 75k yen. That's about 764 nzd give or take a few bucks. .. obviously there is more for shipping but MAN that's cheapo, and in some cases cheaper.

might be worth importing one next year if I hold onto mine :)

discuss.

[CANDEE]

Unless you get it in the 200 "special" imports that they allow, it wont be allowed on the road due to frontal impact laws.

[SEAN-NZ]

Unless you get it in the 200 "special" imports that they allow, it wont be allowed on the road due to frontal impact laws.

could you elaborate on that?

[Oggie]

could you elaborate on that?

anything made before 2005 aint allowed into nz... unless its 20+ years old

or if you are bringing it in for parts.

[Davezj]

just have to wait 2 1/2 years to start bringing the 1996 PFL's in then.

i wonder what else will come age that you will be able to inport, oh possibilities.

[CANDEE]

could you elaborate on that?
Basically as Terry mentioned, nothing before 2005 can now be brought in and complied, unless you a apply to get it in the 200 cars a year that can be complied outside of the rules.

These are usually special or cars destined to be road legal race cars.

[Subaru ETA]

The rule is pretty dumb.

"Your 19 year old car isn't safe to be on our roads due to frontal impact laws, but when it's 20 years old it will be fine."

Much like my corvette. To register it it had to be RHD. Once it was 20 years old an exemption can be loaded against it and it can the be registered as LHD.

That's why the previous owner driver it on dealer plates for a couple of years until it was 20 years old :p

[Davezj]

That is a odd law.
In the uk Cars built before about 1960 do not have to go through an MOT (vehicle safety test) that does not make sense to me the oldest cars don't have a safety test. Just because the MOT test did not exist when those cars were built.
Another odd one.

[SEAN-NZ]

countrys have some seriously weird car laws, would they not let the car in the country at all? or just not allow it to be registered?

[Subaru ETA]

It can't be registered. You can bring what ever you want in

[Adam.Findlay]

Its a common thing for people to buy registered shells and then import running un-registerable cars and just swap all the bits over to end up with a un-registerable shell and a fully legal running car.
there are generally loopholes to exploit somewhere

[Oggie]

Its a common thing for people to buy registered shells and then import running un-registerable cars and just swap all the bits over to end up with a un-registerable shell and a fully legal running car.
there are generally loopholes to exploit somewhere

pretty much this. altho I can see "certain" people swapping over body tags etc, rather that swapping over most of the car.

[Adam.Findlay]

different means to the same end. although just doing tags requires less effort and is ILLEGAL!
Quinton comes to mind

[Subaru ETA]

Lol like how he keeps plates and tags "just incase"

[Oggie]

Lol like how he keeps plates and tags "just incase"

zomg he's importing a legnum...

[Robotnik123]

Existing Legnums in NZ are not hugely expensive anyway. $3000 should get an okay one. When you count shipping and GST on a fresh import any savings are negligible.

[Oggie]

Existing Legnums in NZ are not hugely expensive anyway. $3000 should get an okay one. When you count shipping and GST on a fresh import any savings are negligible.

3k would get you a bloody mint as vr4. as I said earlier not uncommon to pick up a 75k km manual vr4 for around 700 nzd plus shipping.

[Subaru ETA]

3k would get you a bloody mint as vr4. as I said earlier not uncommon to pick up a 75k km manual vr4 for around 700 nzd plus shipping.

Plus compliance. That's what kills ya. If it flies through (which it won't) you will be up for $1000. If it needs an engineers report and repairs you will be well in excess of $3k. Just not worth it IMO unless you are bringing something rare and not available here.

[qball]

Wow you guys get compliance cheap. It was around $2200 here for my last legnum