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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