-----Original Message----- From: Joel Walker <jwalker@BAMA.UA.EDU> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Thursday, May 13, 1999 8:04 AM Subject: Re: Mexican buses
>> and it has me wondering. Are kit cars exempt from the US emissions and >> safety regs.? If so what qualifies as a kit car? Could someone establish a >> company that buys mexican buses and partly disassembles them (say pull the >> motor, tranny, seats, doors...the easy stuff) then sells them as "kit" cars >> in the US? Wondering if anyone knows anything about this or is my >> assumption about kit cars, baja buggies etc. way off base? > >now that is a thought. i recall that there is a company in >Houston, TX, that imports a replica(r) of the Porsche 356 >(about 1965 version) from Brazil ... but the car is a 'kit >car' made of fibreglas, and has everything ready to go >(lights, wiring, seats, doors, brakes, etc) but you, the >purchaser, has to specify (or buy without) an engine and >transmission. you can get a beetle engine, a porsche engine, >or a type 4 bus engine. only real downside was that the cost >of the thing was over $20,000 ... which is what you'd pay >for a decent condition restored original porsche of the same >type and year. :( > >so if they can do that, maybe they'd be interested in >getting some buses in the same way?? :) the company was >Blue-Ray something or other. anybody in Houston that can >check this out? > >joel Well......this has me thinking (dreaming) about the possibility of importing S.A. Vanagons using this idea, too bad I'm just a poor college student......there may be a decent market for these though, instead of hopping up our decade old vans....Just a thought... -Aaron McKay |
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