Difficult Situation

[zique]

I have done a fair amount of research,read the FAQs sticky on here,and the relevant government agency sites and can't quite come up with an answer.

Heres the story..I bought a 1990 R32 GTR track car (thats not registered in my country and can't be)and had intentions to further modify it and use it as a weekend track car.

However my situation has changed and I have plans to move to aussie to work (hard work to modify the GTR as much as possible) as the lifestyle and weather is more to my liking.However I can't seem to find how id be able to import the gtr.

Anyone got any ideas or I might have to leave the car behind:(

i've found this section appealing but can't quite understand it.I've owned the car only 7months now.

"Vehicles built before 1 January 1989 may be imported to Australia without restriction. An import approval is still required and the enclosed application from should be used.

"The vehicle must be built prior to 1 January 1989 unless it meets the transitional arrangement below:

If you made a financial commitment and purchased a 1989 or 1990 vehicle prior to 7 February 2005 you may apply to import your vehicle until 31 December 2005; but

If the vehicle is a 1990 year of manufacture you may only apply on or after the month when the vehicle turns 15 years old, eg a vehicle manufactured in September 1990 can be applied for import in September 2005 provided there was a financial commitment before 7 February 2005. "

Any help would be appreciated.

[Duncan]

OK its pretty easy.

1988 and older cars can be imported to Aus without much restriction, they just need to be signed off by an engineer as safe when it gets here. That rule will probably change in 2020 to include 1990 cars if you want to wait until then.

Race or Rally import can be done by someone with a CAMS motorsport license, race import can never be registered in Aus, Rally import can get "conditional registration" which allows it to be driven to and in events and practive

SEVS allows full road rego of certain cars (if compliance plates exist). Compliance typically costs 3k to 6k and only certain models and dates of cars are available. Cars must be totally stock right down to factory brake pads.

The last option is private import, if you can prove you have owned a car overseas for at least 12 months you can import it and register it. Otherwise same rules as 15yo rule.

If you can prove you have owned the car for 12 months private import is the way to go for sure