Vin# plate from 240 onto skyline?

[Krunko]

could you get a skyline imported, purchase a really cheap or wrecked 240, take off the vin # plate...put it on the skyline...and try to register it as a 240 and get bye with it?  I mean...are they really going to even see the car and tell you its not a 240?  what do you think?

chance

[RacerBoi]

I was thinking about that a while ago, but for impoting a silvia or a celica GT-four. A car that resembles something made in the US. I would use the US car to pass state inspection and get tags, and then transfer the vin plate and tags. Im not thinking it would be legal but it would work.

[Steeles]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Krunko @ Nov. 15 2002,01:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">could you get a skyline imported, purchase a really cheap or wrecked 240, take off the vin # plate...put it on the skyline...and try to register it as a 240 and get bye with it? I mean...are they really going to even see the car and tell you its not a 240? what do you think?

chance</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
why? &nbsp;you can buy the skylines here. &nbsp;but no it wouldnt work if they were checking vins the engine numbers wouldnt match up either. &nbsp;so you'd be busted regardless. &nbsp;why bother when you can legally get one. &nbsp;same thing with the GT four you can just register it as a celica since it's been offered on these shores before. &nbsp;even the GT4 version.

[AKADriver]

The car won't make it through customs unless you employ yet another level of trickery. &nbsp;It'll be stuck at port and the government will charge you for storage <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

Why bother swapping the VIN plates, I say? &nbsp;I drove my 240SX using the license plates from my old 200SX for a few months with no problems before I transferred the registration legally. &nbsp;Just don't get pulled over <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'> &nbsp;But even if I did, what's the chance a cop would know the difference between a 1986 red Nissan 2 door and a 1990 red Nissan 2 door?

Skyline GT-Rs have no dashboard VIN tag to my knowledge anyway. &nbsp;It's not illegal not to have a VIN tag displayed on the outside (though it is illegal to misrepresent a VIN, VERY illegal)

If you really want a GT-R to drive on the street without a hassle it is really worth it to go through Motorex.

The Celica GT-Four is not legal as it stands, it'd have to be modified by a registered importer to conform to US specs. &nbsp;Basically, US bumpers, lights, labeling, and emissions controls. &nbsp;But the chassis is legal if you get a LHD model AFAIK. &nbsp;Of course until the early '90s the GT-Four was sold here from dealers as the All-Trac Turbo, so, why bother importing...?

[SimpleS14]

You can't do it. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hmmm.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hmmm:'>

The vin# is placed on the door jamb, on a plate bolted on the chassis, on the dashboard and IMPRINTED ON THE FRAME OF THE CAR.

so even if you get the first three your never cover up the last one without making obvious.

There's a big difference between a Skyline GT-R and a 240SX......think about it. &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>

[-E-]

you cant fool customs they probably get that all the time &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/baaa.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':baaa:'>