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Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:48:10 -0700
Reply-To:   Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From:   Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject:   Re: consumer reports.org/Recalls/car.html
Comments:   To: Marshall Ruskin <mruskin@PANGEA.CA>
In-Reply-To:   <03a601bf9ec3$2ef431b0$10e1e1df@marshall>
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At 12:52 AM -0500 4/5/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote: >This is very important information, indeed, VITAL information for >anyone wanting to import said vehicles from the US into Canada. > >At the border, customs will research your vehicle for recall >notices, and demand PROOF that your prospective vehicle had >participated in said recalls, and had the mods done. > >If you cannot supply said proof, nada on the importation, and you >have an expensive white elephant sitting there.

Strange. I've imported TWO buses from California into Canada, and both times, no one even looked at the bus. When I say "not even looked' I mean, like, the officials stayed inside the building, out of sight of the bus, took my paperwork, asked me to go out to the bus and write down the mileage and confirm the VIN (yep!), they's stamp the papers, I paid my duty, and drove off. Never looked up recalls or anything either. Sheesh! I coulda had 1,200 lbs of crystal meth in there for all the checking they did.

Man, sometimes I wonder if I look *too* honest....

T.

.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-. Tobin T. Copley,MA Research Associate tobin.copley@ubc.ca Offshore office: Bowen Island, B.C. http://huckleberry.chspr.ubc.ca/ Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology UBC :(604) 822-6219 University of British Columbia Bowen Island :(604) 947-0117 Research affiliations: -Centre for Health Services and Policy Research http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/ -BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS http://cfeweb.hivnet.ubc.ca/cfe.html


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At 12:52 AM -0500 4/5/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote:

<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>This is very important information, indeed, VITAL information for anyone wanting to import said vehicles from the US into Canada.

At the border, customs will research your vehicle for recall notices, and demand PROOF that your prospective vehicle had participated in said recalls, and had the mods done.

If you cannot supply said proof, nada on the importation, and you have an expensive white elephant sitting there.

</fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>

</fontfamily>Strange. I've imported TWO buses from California into Canada, and both times, no one even looked at the bus. When I say "not even looked' I mean, like, the officials stayed inside the building, out of sight of the bus, took my paperwork, asked me to go out to the bus and write down the mileage and confirm the VIN (yep!), they's stamp the papers, I paid my duty, and drove off. Never looked up recalls or anything either. Sheesh! I coulda had 1,200 lbs of crystal meth in there for all the checking they did.

Man, sometimes I wonder if I look *too* honest....

T.

.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.

Tobin T. Copley,MA Research Associate tobin.copley@ubc.ca

Offshore office: Bowen Island, B.C. http://huckleberry.chspr.ubc.ca/

Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology UBC :(604) 822-6219

University of British Columbia Bowen Island :(604) 947-0117

Research affiliations:

-Centre for Health Services and Policy Research http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/

-BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS http://cfeweb.hivnet.ubc.ca/cfe.html


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