Peugeot Re: Re: importing fr Australia?

From: brian@bjwhite.net
Date: Wed 23 Apr 2008 - 15:25:28 EDT

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    Agreed.....other than the steering wheel being on the wrong side of
    the car, importing from Australia is no harder than anywhere else.
    In fact, I remember a few years back someone got a really nice Mk1
    Ford Escort from Aus.....painless since the car is over 25 years old.
    Logisitcs is the only challenge, and if you have someone with the
    experience, it can go smoother.

    Quoting Geoff Kirkpatrick <britcarnut@yahoo.com>:

    > I brought a 1951 Rover 75 sedan over in 2005. Between the shipping
    > cost, freight brokerage in Australia, customs brokerage in US,
    > trucking from LA to Santa Cruz, etc etc it cost me about $2500 to
    > get it from the Australian dock to my driveway. Pretty painless
    > experience overall, just a lot of complexity. I don't know how the
    > costs have changed since then; I would assume upward. This was a
    > roll-on-roll-off shipment; if you can arrange for the car to be
    > containerized that could be cheaper.
    >
    > Geoff
    >
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    > - William Lyon Phelps
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    > Geoff Kirkpatrick, 382 Riverside Avenue, Ben Lomond, CA 95005, USA
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