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Post By dallas_
08-01-2014, 07:55 AM
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Feds raid S.C. home to seize Land Rover in EPA emission-control crackdown
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08-01-2014, 11:17 AM
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Guess what happens to the seized vehicle:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBFwFos-o0[/ame]
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08-03-2014, 06:56 AM
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Homeland Security??
This seems to be more of an issue than the EPA emissions:
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WBTV also clarified that feds were seeking out imported vehicles with altered VINs that didn’t meet Environmental Protection Agency emission laws.
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the whole thing seems a bit off to me |
08-03-2014, 07:31 AM
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This isn't really any different than what the Customs Service was doing prior to being merged into the Department of Homeland Security. In the gray market days of the '80s it was pretty common to legally import a euro vehicle into Canada and try to sneak it into the U.S. I remember seeing a non-conforming Maserati sitting in a Customs impound lot on the northern border. Seems that a smuggler took his girlfriend up to Canada, fitted the Maser with a ski rack and skis and claimed to Customs to be returning to the U.S. from a ski trip. He got caught and lost the car.
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08-03-2014, 09:00 AM
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I guess they should have claimed it as a "continuation Land Rover" and bought it without engine, transmission and wheels.
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Cheetah tribute completed 2021 (TommysCars.Weebly.com)
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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08-03-2014, 11:32 AM
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Location: Dallas,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR track car, SL-C track car
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Well, private vehicle emissions compliance is the most important legal, social and security issue of our time.
Right?
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08-03-2014, 02:12 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance, 427SO
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I feel soooo much safer now ! 
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08-03-2014, 06:25 PM
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I had a client try to import two G-Wagons in the mid-80s as "farm implements."
It didn't work.
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08-05-2014, 04:16 AM
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Ouch!!
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08-05-2014, 05:39 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary CCX3117 427FE
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A racer over here tried to import a $70,000 pro stock engine into Australia and declared it as a $500 junker engine. He sprayed some oil must on it and covered it in dirt.
...oh yeah and he left the invoice and dyno sheet attached to the billet intake manifold..!
Needless to say, he lost the engine.
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08-05-2014, 06:25 AM
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What a senseless waste of human effort. They should be more concerned with the smoking junkers I see on the road every day.
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