"Stop using Homeland Security funds to seize imported vehicles, and change the DOT/EPA exemption to 15 years. The Department of Homeland Security spends a shockingly disproportionate amount of its budget not on security initiatives, but on customs seizures. In particular, importers of grey-market vehicles have been targeted by monies taxpayers have intended to be used to secure our country against terrorism and terrorist activity. We call upon the Executive Branch to immediately cease this wasteful activity, and furthermore to change the DOT/EPA exemption time on grey-market vehicles from 25 years to 15 years (to match the vehicle regulations of Canada), recognizing that the 25-year rule was enacted due to support from special interests such as Mercedes Benz North America."

The law currently states (in the US) you can import any grey market vehicle legally if it is 25 years or older (classic car rule). This is a petition to change it to any vehicle that is 15 years or older (same classic car rule as Canada).

Click on the link to sign the petition. There are over 480,000 members on HT and this petition needs another 23,000 names!

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition...years/L50BZzwj

 

cool stuff.... i signed up and signs the petition!

 

Tried to create an account but where it said "Fill out the form below" There was just a big empty space. Seems fitting someone would come in and disable this to prevent people from signing it Conspiracy in the making. Jk, ill try again later.

 

Signed and shared on Facebook.

 

Oh sign me up!! haha and it has been shared on facebook :D It would be nice if this actually happened

 

Workin on signing it. Dam that account bs.

 

I hate Obama!!! That terrorist SOB

I signed!! I want my r34

 

I live in Canada. Ironically, Canadian auto dealer associations have (so far unsuccessfully) been lobbying the Canadian federal government to extend that 15-year exemption to be like the US, or 25-years. Apparently the dealers' associations have somehow got the bizarre idea that the 15-year exemption is costing them new-car sales. No kidding. As though the sort of guy who would buy a 1992 Skyline would buy a run-of-the-mill new car instead...

I've seen some pretty interesting stuff up here. All right-hand-drive, and most of them Nissans. The most common model is the Skyline.

Off the top of my head, what I've seen so far are these:
Nissan Skyline (many)
Nismo GT-R
Nissan S-Car-Go
Nissan Figaro
Toyota Prado
various Honda and Suzuki mini-pickups, each not much bigger than a golf-cart.

Good luck getting that law changed. You're in for some really cool vehicles if you manage it!

 

and how many of you will actually go out and import a skyline or whatever if this ever goes through?

 

YOU would never do that. YOU would buy a car from an importer. If the law changes, importers suddenly have a much larger product mix they can offer to YOU, the buyer. And that's where the fun begins!

 

OP, I threw it up over on team-integra with due credit to you sir, I hope you dont mind. I want to see if we can make something happen!

 

Just signed up!!

 

Even though I'm in canada I want to see our friends in the states get this done!