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Buying a newly-imported C3?

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nifty:
a lot of the cars were also bought in when the doller was almost the same as the american doller....some were bought in by people looking to make a fast buck..and there is some shockers around for sure.
spend the extra and get a registered car...plenty of them around, because if you try and do it all yourself, you will prob spend more doing so.
a lot needs to be changed to aust standards ( seat belts, headlights, maybe tyres, etc etc)
this quickly adds the dollers onto the purchase price and i reckon its false economy...
dont know about elsewhere, but if a car is FIRST registered as a vintage car in south australia, you dont pay any stamp duty on the car.
check into it...thats a good way of saving maybe a grand or 2
REALLY go over the car and check it out.... you will quickly find americans cant build cars for quids...
compared to the same year aussie car, the vette is a mess with the welding etc on the chassis.
you might be lucky and find a really good one, but you can also luck out and find a really nice LOOKING one, but its a baddie if you get my drift.

plenty have bought a vette and found out the hard way its going to cost them more than they imagined.
bloke in w.a. bought a 72 for a good ammount of coin.
then spent 6mths cutting rust out of the windscreen area... THANKFULLY thats the only place it had rotted steel... but if you cant do it yourself, you will have to pay someone.
and the $$$$ will add up faster than a big block 69 tripower.

VET-005:
Very rare to find a CHEAP good vette. Most cheap cars are cheap for a reason. Anything decent will fetch the right $$$.

As they say you get what you pay for so beware cheapest is not always best. DO your homework.;27

nifty:
when i was looking, i found a 76 at 15k...
went and had a look, and what a friggin mess it was.
the guy didnt even put the hose on it to wash off the dust.
it had 3 flat tyres, missing an air cleaner, and flamed rocker covers...
the intrior was ripped to pieces, and carpet was filthy and had holes.
BUT it was as stright as a die.... even the paint work was good after i gave it a bit of a clean to have a look.
and i very nearly bought it...then for an axtra 12k, i found a MUCH better one.. in right hand drive and with rego.
didnt take long to work out that the 76 would have cost me a lot more than 12 k to get fixed up and on the road.
dont know about elsewhere, but to regiter it here in s.a. it MUST "appear" as it left the factory.
so no mag wheels, no flames on the rocker covers, interior must be near perfect etc etc..
 a mate with a 69 trip power 427 (missing the tri power...runs a big holley) has an eldelbrock manifold on it.
to get rego he either has to chance to a stock manifold, or grind off the raised letters so it " appears" stock.
he paid a fair ammount for this car, and its been in his shed for 5 yrs now... its almost ready, but he is in no hurry.
getting parts is pretty easy for it ( at a price) and hes done the new interior, seat belts, headlight beams etc etc, and the purchase price he paid from an importer,though steep... was fair for what it is.he would have thrown prob another 15- 20k at it so far, and its now getting new paint in the original riverside gold..so theres another 5-10k at mates rates.(fortunaltly insurence will pay for some of it, as the roof in his shed collapsed in a wind storm and came down on top of the car...
no damage to the body , but it really got stuck into the paintwork with deep scratches everywhere.

silver1:
there are a lot of nice  Corvettes for sale already registered and restored in Australia ,thats the way I would go and in the end it works out cheaper I have found.

nifty:

--- Quote ---Originally posted by silver1
there are a lot of nice  Corvettes for sale already registered and restored in Australia ,thats the way I would go and in the end it works out cheaper I have found.
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