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I've searched the forum and found some older posts but they're somewhat contradictory.

I'm looking for a certain car and they're rare as hens teeth in Oz. I think they might also be rare in Japan but there's definately a few getting around in the UK.

I'm getting confused reading the govie site and at the moment it looks as though it may be easier to bring one in from England than Japan as the compliancing may be easier (the same type of car sold here). I heard about a mini recently brought in that just had to have window glass changed because of the lack of aussie standards stickers.

Can any of the compliance garages do a one off import?

Any thoughts, ideas?

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Its been discussed before. The shipping would be more but thats about it.

As for easier compliance, most cars coming in dont really seem to need much done to them for compliance. The costs actually relate to how much money the workshop has made back since getting the compliance plates. You should find a workshop that can do the compliance and discuss how much it will cost before you make any decisions.

By the way, any car that has been imported into Japan from Europe will be exactly the same as the European models, so I wouldn't rule out looking in Japan.

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Mr Eps Grand Master

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ok a few pointers:

you said this car is "rare as hen's teeth" in aus - hen's technically don't have "teeth" per say. they have a beak which basically combines the use of lips, teeth, nostrils, and tongue all into one. they use this beak to pick up and break down grain, seeds and grind up into a fine dust for their consumption. much the same as a rooster, pictured below.

rooster.jpg

in short - there isn't actually any such thing as Hen's Teeth at all.

now that we've got that cleared up - the rest of your question is indeed a wild one. obviously this part of the post is best left to someone more knowledgeable of imports than someone who knows the intricacies of feathered game birds.

what i can tell you is:

importing from the UK is exactly the same process as importing from japan.. they still get put onto a boat and flown here into australia on the flying boat machine.

my question is - and i'm pretty sure the importer will want to know this as well - is, what car are you looking to import? because from your description it seems they sold the car here in aus, if that's the case - you can't import it bro... unless you personally import it

Houdini Rising Star

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my question is - and i'm pretty sure the importer will want to know this as well - is, what car are you looking to import? because from your description it seems they sold the car here in aus, if that's the case - you can't import it bro... unless you personally import it

Ahhhh, there it is :cheers:

This does ring a bell with me. Can't be done because it was available here. So it's buckle up and wait until one of the 19 choose to sell. Dammit.

Mohsen Grand Master

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ok a few pointers:

you said this car is "rare as hen's teeth" in aus - hen's technically don't have "teeth" per say. they have a beak which basically combines the use of lips, teeth all into one. they use this beak to pick up and swallow the grain, seeds and grind up into a mush in their gizzard then into their stomach for their consumption. much the same as a rooster, pictured below.

fixed... get your facts right eps.... :cheers:

nostrils are separate from the beak. they also have tounges, separate from the beak

all is good but fowls swallow their seeds, psittacines are the ones that smash them up.

and to keep it on topic. london is a nice city. it has nice cars

Mr Eps Grand Master

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yeah man - what's the worst that could happen?

=D

i'm really curious... if it's a japanese car - and it was sold domestically - then how could it have only sold a volume of 19 or so? if that's actually the case - are you SURE it was sold domestically and people aren't just importing from japan?

...wait... i know what it is...

:P

....a dragon.

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