What is to comprehend? What is said was exacally my point and my directed comments were to you that YOU do not know the details about anyone's car therefor it's silly for you to ASSUME that someone's car is illegal where infact YOUR car is the one running a motor swap.Originally Posted by speedminded
I'm not worried about my Skyline, I have Motorex paper work sitting in my glove box. As for the rest of the owners on the website most I know are Motorex and others have their own details I don't know of. I'm not the import police nor are you or anyone else on this forum. Facts are facts and thanks to the internet it's very easy to research the correct and proper information pertaining to matters.
I never once said that just because a car has a title means it's 100% legal. I said what do cops ask for? License, registration, proof of insurence. Once that's cleared they cannot do anything because there is this wonderful thing called jurisdiction that you seem to not understand. A Cobb county cop cannot issue a ticket in Dekalb, he has to sit and wait for a Dekalb officer to show up to issue the citation. It's no different with federal matters such as something that pertains to HLS/ICE/NHTSA who has jurisdiction over imported vehicles. State police can verify VIN's but investigations fall more towards theft and fraud division of the DMV HQ for the state.
Another item that seems to need some clarification here, bond release. Just because a car has a "bond release" paper which basically is nothing more then a 1 page document typed up saying they received the request papers from the registered importer saying the vehicle is compliant HOWEVER the NHTSA has not inspected or reviewed the vehicle therefor they reserve the right to inspect the vehicle in the future. The release of the vehicle is not confirming that the vehicle meets all FMVSS. There are copies of bond releases available to view on the internet, you will find the wording to be nearly exact but somewhat different. Most Motorex guys I know have very similar worded documents.
Furthermore, I personally know one of the key Motorex guys and I hate to tell you but Motorex cars are NOT 100% legal. There's many that have no OBDII and incorrect manufacture years listed on titles to get around OBDII (1997 listed at a 1995). Motorex also used a "black box" to slip past OBDII and emissions testing during the compliance processing at G&K. Near the end of Motorex a lot of the cars didn't get any compliance work done but were simply passed through. There was absolutely nothing put in writing that those cars were good to go or "graced" and the question has always remained, though they have the release paper what happens if the NHTSA decides to later inspect the vehicles? That's also one of the things we'll be handling in court following the Kaizo case.
