illegal to import two strokes? how do you explain the yamaha zuma 2? or a
numerous number of other 2 stroke imports?
*-----Original Message-----
*From: doug avery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
*Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 1:56 PM
*To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Subject: RE: New Scooters In The USA
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*
*>>>I was doing some scooter window shopping via the internet, and I came
*>>>upon something very, very interesting. From the scooterclassifieds "New
*>>>Scooters In The USA"
*page(http://www.scooterclassifieds.com/newscooters/)
*>>>I came upon a page for a company called "LML". It seems that they are
*>>>importing into the US, Vespa scooters made in India.
*
*Ouch! That thing looks like the T5 classic! Hideous! At least the Indian
*made GP's - which are cursed by the way, but more on that later � looked a
*lot like the Italian GP's. About the curse: Of the three friends of mine
*that have owned Indian GP's, one was stolen and driven off a cliff into
*Puget Sound (some skins must've REALLY liked the way Quadraphenia ended),
*then found on the beach below a week later. Another friend of mine was
*waiting at an intersection and jumped by a pack of gangsters who not only
*messed him up a bit, but SCOOTER-JACKED HIM! Who'd of thought,
*gangsters on
*scooters? (This was before Puff-Daddy's collection.) And a third not only
*had his hit while parked by a car, but had it repainted only to wake up a
*find it gone. It was recovered a few days later in a Kentucky
*Fried Chicken
*parking lot, upright with virtually no damage. I guess someone
*couldn't wait
*to get them some of them powdered mashed potatoes (which are the
*8th wonder
*of the world, by the way).
*Interesting that they are advertising these as sold in the US
*though, as it
*has been illegal to import two-strokes into the states since
*sometime around
*'81 - '82, so I'm curious if the bike pictured is the one they are to
*import, or if they have a similar four-stroke model. Even vehicles
*that are,
*according to US customs laws "deregulated" (those which are require no
*additional paperwork to import), cars manufactured before 1967 and
*motorcycles (this legally includes scooters) manufactured before 1977, are
*absolute HELL to get through customs. And in some states, even more
*difficult to actually register (Washington) even though they were legally
*imported.
*If anyone here in the US is interested in the importation laws concerning
*importing scooters from abroad, I would start at
*http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/impexp2/informal/car.htm#DOC
*it has a lot of helpful info, links, and contacts. But be warned, even if
*you do everything by the book doesn't mean customs won't hold you bike for
*months, giving you the run-around, and in some cases, doubling
*your tariffs.
*Unless your local shop owner knows something different, I doubt
*the bike on
*that link will ever be seen on US streets, which is�err�to bad.
*
*Doug
*
*P.S. Does anyone remember who reissued that Blue Things LP?
*
*P.P.S. If this is the ninth post on the same topic, again, my apologies.
*
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