420 CSR progress, Purple People Eater ;) 😈

[UglyFast]

5 hours ago, Croc said:

Yes these are common exams.  Been through more than a few myself.  Colonoscopies are cheaper and done by professionals.  The pain point is it delays delivery by about a week and you pay for the privilege of some officer to rip apart your crate unless they are using the container scanner.  These exams usually go after the one-time importer (e.g. you) or as @Bartman notes where someone has screwed up paperwork in your shared container.  

 

The only wrinkle I expect is they see all the parts bags and ask for them to be separately identified at which point you explain it is part of a whole kit and to refer them to the inventory as part of the customs documentation.  

 

You'll be fine.  I am sure its because your reputation preceded you....

Do you think they do anything differently on a CSR chassis import?  I shouldn't think I'd have too many parts bags floating about in the crate?  

 

Drivetrain crate will have a few bags, yes?  

 

 

[SENC]

What's really in that container?

https://www.postandcourier.com/business/feds-seize-2-fast-2-furious-car-say-north-charleston-business-illegally-imported-vehicle/article_7a36ee46-3a5b-11e7-bacd-f34ca15bbbca.html

[Croc]

42 minutes ago, UglyFast said:

Do you think they do anything differently on a CSR chassis import?  I shouldn't think I'd have too many parts bags floating about in the crate?  

 

Drivetrain crate will have a few bags, yes?  

 

No nothing different.  These inspectors have no idea what a Caterham is.  Probably don't even understand it is potentially going to be a "vehickle" when you finally put it all the kit together.  

 

CSR should be a roller kit.  All the extra bits should be in the one crate I would think?

[UglyFast]

1 hour ago, SENC said:

What's really in that container?

https://www.postandcourier.com/business/feds-seize-2-fast-2-furious-car-say-north-charleston-business-illegally-imported-vehicle/article_7a36ee46-3a5b-11e7-bacd-f34ca15bbbca.html

Lol ShUt aLL tHe WaY Up Hahaha

 

 

[IamScotticus]

I know we're all joking around here, but Id like to add..

The Skyline wasn't seized because it was a Skyline, 

But because it wasn't on the manifest "Smuggle".  The issues with the car can be resolved one way or another,  but falsification can't be dealt with kindly.  Customs is mostly focused on drugs , IPR violations and terrorism now.  They don't care what it is as long as everyone is truthful about it and its clean.

Edited November 20, 2022 by IamScotticus

[UglyFast]

5 minutes ago, IamScotticus said:

I know we're all joking around here, but Id like to add..

The Skyline wasn't seized because it was a Skyline, 

But because it wasn't on the manifest "Smuggle".  The issues with the car can be resolved one way or another,  but falsification can't be dealt with kindly.  Customs is mostly focused on drugs , IPR violations and terrorism now.  They don't care what it is as long as everyone is truthful about it and its clean.

Lol well it came via a very reputable, long standing dealer in Caterham's authorized US dealer network and I've been in direct contact with the CEO. Here's hoping that qualifies as too legit to quit. I assume all the paperwork was done and dusted. That's the expertise one buys with an experienced, authorized importer, yes? 

 

I am back to thinking I'll get my '22 Caterham actually on the road in '23... #NewOldCar. 

 

This first time ordering a brand new car has def been (clears throat) an experience...

[SENC]

What's the latest?  Has Barney been liberated?  Do we need to start a protest?

[UglyFast]

4 hours ago, SENC said:

What's the latest?  Has Barney been liberated?  Do we need to start a protest?

Unsaddle the horses.

 

Your guess is as good as mine. Apparently the exam went well (bill to me to follow soon) but it's sitting at customs cause there's no carrier to take it back to the warehouse where we can go get it. 

 

Being told *maybe* next Monday Tuesday available for pickup. But that's a big guesstimate from my broker due to the glacial speed at which Govt moves AND Thanksgiving being RIGHT NOW. 

 

It is wild that as murky as this arduous process has been it is able to get even murkier as we (presumably) near the end. 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[SENC]

On a brighter front, how's the NSX?

[UglyFast]

31 minutes ago, SENC said:

On a brighter front, how's the NSX?

Frackin brilliant. Should've done it YEARS ago. 

[UglyFast]

Me waiting for this 7...

 

Lol

 

 

 

[SENC]

34 minutes ago, UglyFast said:

Frackin brilliant. Should've done it YEARS ago. 

If it were only purple.

[UglyFast]

2 hours ago, SENC said:

If it were only purple.

Lol around here we identify as violently violet!

Edited November 24, 2022 by UglyFast
punctuation

[UglyFast]

Allegedly...

 

I'm going to pick up my crates tomorrow.

 

Lol insert Kermit celebrating gif here. 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[UglyFast]

[Vovchandr]

49 minutes ago, UglyFast said:

 

Poor poor NSX will be red headed step child right @NSXguy?

Edited November 29, 2022 by Vovchandr

[UglyFast]

50 minutes ago, Vovchandr said:

 

Poor poor NSX will be red headed step child right @NSXguy?

Lol nah. She just be my rainy day gurl. 

[Croc]

3 hours ago, UglyFast said:

 

 

Lol insert Kermit celebrating gif here. 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

[SENC]

Hoping for no more surprises or delays!

 

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by SENC

[UglyFast]

13 minutes ago, Croc said:

 

Hopefully they didn't stack my crates upside down....