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Old Jan 29, 2003 | 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by reXer
To add on this note... car companies are getting smart with VINs... newer cars can have them stamped in places you'd never even look. My car has some high ass amount like 15 places where it's stamped. I'm not saying you will get caught... but it's nearly impossible to rid a newer car of all it's VIN markings.
This isn't particularly new. I have restored my '68 Shelby, and the Ford VIN number is easily in 20 places all over the car. It is on the engine block, the transmission, the rear chassis rails, the door, under the seats, both sides of the engine compartment, etc.

Tampering with the VIN with fradulent intent is a very major crime. It is a felony, (one of those in the 3 strikes and you get life in prison, even if all 3 are minor). So I would think real hard before I did anything involving switching VIN's.
Old Jan 30, 2003 | 12:22 PM
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Originally posted by soulDistortion
The answer is yes.

You can buy a cheap r32 and spend the loot to have it sent over (which in itself will cost a fair amount), but to have it legalized for street usage, you still have to spend money for a certified company to make all the retrofits for it to be legal.

And since there's only one company that can legally make your skyline legal (that company being MotorEx), you'd be spending an additional 16,000 for an r32.

http://motorex.net/conversion.html
Who lied to you and told you Motorex is the only Legitamate legalizing company?
Old Jan 30, 2003 | 12:23 PM
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Originally posted by soulDistortion
Swapping VIN's is still illegal.

So basically the car would still be illegal. You'd just be lying about it's legality.
What are you a cop?
Old Jan 30, 2003 | 03:06 PM
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Originally posted by Shinobi
What are you a cop?
Swapping VIN's is illegal. There really isn't an arguement point for that. That's just a fact.
Old Jan 30, 2003 | 03:19 PM
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Originally posted by Shinobi
Who lied to you and told you Motorex is the only Legitamate legalizing company?
Show me another company that can legally import a Nissan Skyline and have it be legal to drive on public American roads of all 50 states without any restrictions.
Old Jan 30, 2003 | 04:33 PM
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MotoRex is the only company able to legally import a Skyline.
We have a few up here in the Nova area. All legal daily driven
Skylines in the U.S. got here through MotoRex, forget about it.
Old Jan 31, 2003 | 06:55 AM
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Originally posted by soulDistortion
Show me another company that can legally import a Nissan Skyline and have it be legal to drive on public American roads of all 50 states without any restrictions.
There are a few other companies that you can order a street legal skyline from (their names escape me at the moment).

Guess where they get their skylines from? That's right, Motorex.

In the end, as of now, Motorex is the only place that you can get a street legal skyline from. There are plenty of places that can legalize a car, they just don't know how to do a skyline and you'd have to pay for it all yourself basically.

Places that can legally import a skyline = a ton
Places that can make a skyline street legal (at a semi-resonably price) = one
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Ok ill take the wor for it but thats not what other companies are claiming......
Old Jan 31, 2003 | 08:11 AM
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Originally posted by Shinobi
Ok ill take the wor for it but thats not what other companies are claiming......
Who are these other companies?
Old Jan 31, 2003 | 08:15 AM
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