Financing is a second issue assuming you can get the vehicle in and want to
finance.

Banks only finance against valid VIN - I discovered this when trying to buy
a used Mercedes 280SL a few years ago. No problem getting money, just not
for that grey market car!

Tom
www.towercooler.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Anthony Egeln
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 7:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: T5 imports

I'm sure that the Mexican dealer will be happy to sell one, but getting it
registered legally here is another matter altogether. �The VIN will trip you
up.
You have to go through a registered importer like this one:
http://www.autostadtwest.com/
And that's only if the vehicle is on the official list of vehicles that the
registered importer can legally modify to US codes.
Of course, stuff does happen. �A year ago, while spending a couple of days
in Captiva, I didmeet some people from Illinois that had gotten that
specific vehicle across the Canadian border and somehow registered in that
state. �I suspect they were lucky.
Still..... �a tough row to hoe.
Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

--- On Fri, 11/26/10, A PETER MARSH <apetermarsh@MAC.COM> wrote:

From: A PETER MARSH <apetermarsh@MAC.COM>
Subject: T5 imports
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Friday, November 26, 2010, 7:33 AM

Morning Turkey Gobblers

Hope you all had a great day yesterday. Is there any info available for
buying a T5 in Mexico and driving it across the border?

 I mean, lots of humans walk across and seem to stay in the US so why not a
few "naughty"� 2.5 TDI T5's?

Just a thought.

Smile. Peter Marsh

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