Eternal Life: NISMO Heritage Program Building New Spare Parts for the GT-R

Assuming all the federal paperwork is in order, it's mostly a matter of patience at the DMV to get a VA title. The car would have to be over 25 years old to import anyway, so registering it with antique plates would bypass the inspection issues.

I saw one a charity car show at a church about a month ago. I never realized how small they were. I saw it and thought that it was a nice, early 240sx. Look under the hood and there a '2.5' on the valve cover and a giant turbo, still didn't understand what I was looking at, I thought it must have been an engine swap. Finally realized it was RHD. The owner was a young veteran, very nice as you might expect, and happy to share his experience with titling and insuring the car. I think he said it was making like 430 at the wheel.

@bumpy ii I live in a fascist dystopian college town. People with perfectly legitimate antique plates on their old cars and trucks get hassled constantly by law enforcement until they give them up. I had a family bring in their old F100 for a state inspection that was going to involve some expensive repairs. I suggested antique plates, since it only had a couple hundred miles more than on last year's state inspection invoice. They told me that they had antique plates until the third time they were pulled over for them, the last time coming when their son was using the truck to pick up some mulch at Lowes. The police officer said it was being used as a work truck, so it can't have antique registration. Never mind that it was a few miles from the address it was registered to and the mulch wasn't part of a commercial endeavor. Maybe there are some parts of Virginia that still have better things to do than harass property owners, but Charlottesville earns its City of Hate title every day.

@ToddAtlasF1 The thing about antique/collector/heritage plates/insurance is that you get special benefits in exchange for some very special restrictions. The police are correct to call someone out on using a truck with heritage plates for any kind of hauling because that sort of use most likely violates your state's rules and regs for having the collector plate. It would be the same if I were to drive a vehicle with farm plates and dyed gas for any reason except farm business.

@Ko1 Yep, when I got the antique plates for my truck, the gal at the DMV told me not to haul stuff in it. You're supposed to only use it for cruising around every once in a while. If you're picking up mulch or appliances, you can expect to get popped.