NOT SO Duty Free Trueno

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Moin from Hamburg. This thread is rather dusty but time to clear things up.

As a summary: as previously noted, the car had been sent to Bremerhaven from Yokohama, arrived there with the necessary import steps like the R12 refrigerant etc. and the import costs. The exporter from Japan didn't know how to prepare import documents for historic cars so my brother and I did the import procedure ourselves. This way, we could save some money. The duty free part of the import was unsuccessful as the the customs agents did not accept the car as a moving item.

The website for EU imports stated, that living a year is enough though only if there is clear indication for a permament move to Japan in the first place. Having a visa of only one year was not enough and the customs said "you moved to Japan for a year for the purpose of bringing a car for cheap" (paraphrased).

The car was in a garage for over a year with some parts hunting. It proudly sports @banpei's old steering wheel. I do have some photos here and there to share if you guys are interested. The car is TÜVed and registered since this summer.

Though currently I am looking for propshaft parts. Do you guys know part numbers for spider gears? I might need to change them.