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Originally Posted by strelnik
This is because you have not read all the rules.
The EPA will allow you to import a brand new engine into the US, INTACT, if it is for an antique car.
I know this because there is a brand new (rebuilt) Citroen engine sitting in a crate in my basement, shipped from England. There is paperwork to fill out and there is a provision for shipping antique car engines in low quantity.
You might have issues getting 100 of them into the country, but not one.
I don't have the paperwork handy, but it's useful to carry the EPA reg with you to show Customs because they are not real well-informed. In fact, the customs form also includes this.
A good carrier to handle this is a company called Econo Caribe. Despite the name, they do handle this stuff.
Explain that you want to buy an engine that is for an antique car. Call up your seller and be sure that he/she knows it's for what American Customs considers to be an antique car as well.
Good luck! It takes about three months to do, have now done it twice.
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I stand corrected then. I was thinking of the RR guys who were trying to slide Euro RRs in to the US. I think what tripped them up was they were trying to play the antique rule. I heard one story where they had something like a 2006 and they claimed it was a 91 on the paperwork.
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