NOT SO Duty Free Trueno

[Hama86]

(08-18-2018 10:20 PM)decryphe Wrote:  

(08-10-2018 11:58 AM)Hama86 Wrote:  That's it so far. I did a test drive with the car with some red plates. The car easily runs up to 170km/h. It was raining so I didn't go further. I really need a chime kill switch.

That's the exact same weather I had when I picked up mine in Bremerhaven. Chime turned out to be rather annoying at 150km/h average speed through Germany.

Currently also in the same boat where I have to replace a couple parts to get the car road legal. Fortunately much less than you do. Good luck with those things!

Germany doesn't like old cars. I remember that the government once considered to ban all classics from public roads.

I can give an update on a crucial fact about the import. The plan was to get the car without the import costs. According to the customs website, the first condition (living 1 year abroad) has some small details, that were not mentioned in the website at all. Because it is not enough to stay one year, you have to have a reason to stay longer than that. So my application for duty free import had been rejected.

In the end, I had to pay import. It cannot be helped. At least I was able to do the import procedure with my brother together, without consulting a firm. I could save some money. The tricky part was the weird online tool and finding the correct reference number for importing classic cars.