Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Using foreign cars in your native country (-> was USMX tripoints)
Date: Oct 07, 2002 @ 19:10
Author: Victor Cantore (Victor Cantore <drpotatoes@...>)
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>>also it is fair to say these 2 are the 2 easiesttripoints on mxus
> such prohibitions against untaxed car imports are__________________________________________________
> perhaps nowhere
> more severe than in latin america
> where most very old north american cars eventually
> wind up
> just owing to the laws of supply & demand &
> geography
>
> i can still distinctly remember the shock of seeing
> a clear majority
> of 1930s & 1940s vintage north american cars in
> montevideo & buenos
> aires & especially in asuncion paraguay as recently
> as 1967
> all transported by ship since there is no road
> connection
> & all basically held together with chewing gum &
> bailing wire etc
> since time immemorial
>
> they were taxed in south america at 10 or 20 times
> their north
> american value
> since basically they were all that was available to
> drive there
> & i guess the govts had to capitalize on something
> in order to survive
> & the people had to drive
> so they either paid the tax or smuggled the cars in
> somehow
>
> to drive an american car down to latin america
> overland you had to
> pay a stiffer & stiffer bond at every border you
> crossed until you
> eventually ran out of money before you ran out of
> road
> & then you had to backtrack to north america hoping
> to recover your
> bond in order to pay for the return trip
>
> this is probably still somewhat if not substantially
> true today
>
> but this whole topic is way off our regular
> principled topic
> & doesnt even have anything to do with our regular
> unprincipled topic
> namely which side of the road to drive the blasted
> things on
> so i dont even know whether to apologize for even
> acknowledging &
> yikes actually adding to the discussion
> but there you have my 2cents worth in any case
>
> m
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > I did some asking around in a car newsgroup.
> Driving in a foreign
> registered car more than 3 months (how do you prove
> it, and can you
> do a u-turn at the border after the 3 months?) The
> penalty could be
> paying the Danish registration charge, that could be
> something like
> 100.000 DKK ($13.500).
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jan S. Krogh
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:29 AM
> > Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Using foreign cars
> in your native
> country (-> was USMX tripoints)
> >
> >
> > Of course it is linked to residenceship, not
> citizenship! The
> chance for being nicked is small, but the
> consequences might be big
> if you loose your car.
> >
> > Jan
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesper Nielsen [mailto:jesniel@i...]
> > Sent: 24. september 2002 23:38
> > To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: USMX
> tripoints
> >
> >
> > It's also a Danish law.
> >
> > But it's not a matter of citizenship, but of
> residenceship,
> right?
> >
> > Jan, you can take your (possible) LT car with
> you into Norway,
> can't you?
> >
> > Anyway if I hired a car in Germany or Sweden,
> the chance for
> being nicked would be very small with the open
> borders. And I don't
> know the penalty.
> >
> >
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