While tripping merrily through the mail, Olav Geisser was overheard
 
 BP> Me too if I can find one at a reasonable price stateside!
 BP> (for a car that is dirt cheap in Europe they are bloody expensive here
 BP> in the US!)
 OG> That's right! But if we europeans go to the US to import Caddies and  
 OG> Chevies from your swap meets to Europe - why don't you do the same  
 OG> backwards? Buy your 2CV here in Germany or in France and with 1-2
 OG> thousand   Dollars you should get a pretty good car to do only little
 OG> restoration on   it.
Because the one time I tried, the US Government said I had to post a
bond equal to the value of the car in the US market, which was non-refundable
if the car didn't meet US emission and safety standards.  (And even if it 
id,
they wanted to hold the bond for five years.)
To add insult to injury, it was a car in Canada that had originally been 
uilt
and sold in the US!
Don
... He then left in a Huff (A small German sportscar).
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