Does anyone have experience with this? Know anyone who has done it?

I've begun looking into it, but am somewhat discouraged. It's appearing more complicated than I had anticipated.

 

yank the engine and you can trailer it straight across with no duties or taxes.

I also believe anything earlier than 94 is tax free aswell. Not 100% sure but i heard it somewhere...

I was about to sell my EK to a guy in Texas but he never got back to me abotu how to get it to him, so i took it off the market.

Sorry im no help...

 

Are you sure about this? This could actually help me considerably if it's the case. I wonder what impact this would have on getting a US title for it.

 

Here's a couple of links that will answer most of your questions:

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/Can0206.html

http://www.customs.treas.gov/imp-exp2/informal/car.htm

 

I tried to help my friend get his car into California. If you simply drive it across the border, then all you have to do is go to the state referee and get it smog checked. When we tried to ship it using a commercial shipping company, the shipping compnay knew to ask for a letter or certificate of some kinds from Canada VW stating that that car was manufactured to the US 50 state's smog laws.

The story ends with my friend selling the car in Cananda and buying one in California.

 

Yea... found those fairly quickly. Here's another one:

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/imports/factmtop.htm

The EPA site actually makes more sense. It would appear to be fairly easy to drive across considering it's on the EPA's (US equivelent) list. It's probably a moot point anyway as I've since found that getting a loan for this type of purpose isn't that easy and I don't really want to buy it outright.

 

Im 90% sure that if you yank the engine out it is not declared as a "car" and taxes/duty will be waived, as long as you have the pink slip proving its yours. Or in Canadian's case a green/white slip

 

Also if you need a full car. My neighbor is a dealer and sends stuff to the states very often. I could talk to him and ask if he could send it to a place where you could pick it up. There will probably be a logistics charge or something but i guess it couldnt hurt to ask.

Im in Toronto

 

IM aamirCWITR

He has just recently imported his ITR from Canada and has alot of info that might be useful for you.