Feds raid S.C. home to seize Land Rover in EPA emission-control crackdown
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| HealeyRick |
08-01-2014 11:17 AM |
Guess what happens to the seized vehicle:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBFwFos-o0[/ame]
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| mptech |
08-03-2014 06:56 AM |
Homeland Security??
This seems to be more of an issue than the EPA emissions:
Quote:
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 |
| HealeyRick |
08-03-2014 07:31 AM |
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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| Tommy |
08-03-2014 09:00 AM |
I guess they should have claimed it as a "continuation Land Rover" and bought it without engine, transmission and wheels.
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| dallas_ |
08-03-2014 11:32 AM |
Well, private vehicle emissions compliance is the most important legal, social and security issue of our time.
Right?
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| Shootnride |
08-03-2014 02:12 PM |
I feel soooo much safer now ! :rolleyes:
Ted
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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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| BAsque1 |
08-05-2014 04:16 AM |
Ouch!!
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| 750hp |
08-05-2014 05:39 AM |
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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| Tim Brewer |
08-05-2014 06:25 AM |
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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