Filed under: Classics, Etc., Government/Legal
Because we the enthusiast people didn’t gather behind the effort to lower the gray market importation limit from 25 to 15 years, the We The People petition filed a couple of months ago has failed. In order to get the Executive Branch to consider such requests, each petition needs 25,000 signatures and this one didn’t get it. That isn’t to say the decision would have been overturned, but now it won’t even get a look.
It is said that Mercedes-Benz helped get the original law passed the eighties, which means you can only now import the car – the 500 SEL – that prompted Mercedes to fight for it. Or there’s always a 1986 Citroen CX or 1986 Nissan Skyline R31 to leave you thoroughly underwhelmed with your options.
Petition to shorten gray market import exemption fails originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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