Skylines are "Contraband" ??!?!??!

[redmanhart]

Everyone bitches about it, but bottom line is the cars are not legal to operate on our roadways. Regardless of how much money you spent to get it, it's still illegal in one way or another. If the government decides to confiscate your illegal car, then it sucks to be you and you have now flushed countless thousands of dollars down the drain. Congratulations.

[Genji-Sama]

Everyone bitches about it, but bottom line is the cars are not legal to operate on our roadways. Regardless of how much money you spent to get it, it's still illegal in one way or another. If the government decides to confiscate your illegal car, then it sucks to be you and you have now flushed countless thousands of dollars down the drain. Congratulations.

The problem is not that it's illegal, it's the fact that people purchased the car thinking it was a legal purchase and it being confiscated with their tax dollars. Whether it's legal or not it's still stupid as hell. What if it was all of a sudden illegal to own Nismo350z, now ur shyts towed, sucks to be you. Same idea. And even so there are plenty of more things I'd rather the gov't be exporting from the country with my tax dollars, not cars that can only do as much harm as the drivers allow them, which they could do with any car

[redmanhart]

The problem is not that it's illegal, it's the fact that people purchased the car thinking it was a legal purchase and it being confiscated with their tax dollars. Whether it's legal or not it's still stupid as hell. What if it was all of a sudden illegal to own Nismo350z, now ur shyts towed, sucks to be you. Same idea. And even so there are plenty of more things I'd rather the gov't be exporting from the country with my tax dollars, not cars that can only do as much harm as the drivers allow them, which they could do with any car

That's the thing, my car was legally sold here in the states, so I have no fear of that happening to my car. Like Tiger said, virtually all owners of imported Skylines know the risk beforehand. If you want to spend that kind of money knowing that the outcome could be that your car could eventually be confiscated because you decided to bring it into the states illegally, then you are retarded. Just my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I like Skylines, but when you know the risks of owning one in the states illegally, you have no right to bitch when the Feds decide to take it.

[Jonathan12uiz]

That's the thing, my car was legally sold here in the states, so I have no fear of that happening to my car. Like Tiger said, virtually all owners of imported Skylines know the risk beforehand. If you want to spend that kind of money knowing that the outcome could be that your car could eventually be confiscated because you decided to bring it into the states illegally, then you are retarded. Just my opinion. Don't get me wrong, I like Skylines, but when you know the risks of owning one in the states illegally, you have no right to bitch when the Feds decide to take it.

OK I thought I would chime in because word does have to get out.

What you are missing here man is not the fact that the skyline is deemed illegal, but the fact of why and what is happening to them. The reason for them being deemed contraband is total bs, BUT the real thing to worry about is the large sum of money the government is spending investigating, confiscating, exporting, etc. on not just skylines but other cars too.

You may not think this pertains to you, but it does. It does to everyone on this forum. Car modifications like jdm engine swaps (even honda swaps) fall under the same damn category as a skyline. "contraband" that means they could take that too.

What we have to do here is push to make a change in vehicle/parts importing laws to get what we all want... freedom. freedom to drive and do what we want to OUR cars.

It would actually help this cause if you look into it and work towards helping the cause.

Your saying you have no right to bitch when the feds are taking our skylines, but you should bitch when you know how much of YOUR money they spent just to take someone else car. They spent more money than they made on the car from taxes.