Buying Cobra (HELP) So many decisions

[Donal407]

Thanks for all the advice all and keep it coming, I should prob explain one more thing about our twisted country (Irelaand) that very few others seem to realise. We have a tax which has to be paid on all cars which are imported into Ireland (we all do i hear you shout at you me) Ah, but not like we do.

Let me explain. When a car is imported most Governments make purchasers pay maybe 15% -20% TAX and we have all learned to live with this.

Well the Irish have their own way of doing things. Our money hungry Gov start by making you pay 10% of the purchase price in what they like to call stamp duty, Then you pay 21% on the new combined figure which is a VAT rate (so this results in you paying TAX on stamp Duty) and then just for the crack they dicide they havent screwed you enough so they have a system where the car is valued in its current state and TAXED agaig at 30%.

So a car costing, say $40.000, in the USA could end up costing ( 40,000 + 10% +21% + 30% ) iv done the maths for you, $69,212 ( heartbreaking ). However all vintage ( cars over 30 yrs old are exempt ) so my plan is to get a cobra Tilled over 30 years ago and avoid the 30% tax but the other Taxs will apply.

This is why i cannot have one built myself and the UK seem to have very few if any Cobras registered for the years i need.

So this is why i look to YOU my friends across the water in the mighty USA. Also the Cobras in the USA look and sound so much better than the UK ones which i have seen. Hence i have come to you for help.