What the heck?!?!

[Mr. Flibble]

I just found a Delica L400 SWB here in Washingtn state, with a Salvage title and for auction.

Anyone know why or how?

I can't figure out the posting it is on at all......... I can't contact the seller. :(

http://www.salvage-cars-for-sale.info/s ... Tk4NjI3MjA

[mararmeisto]

Hey, how about that? Spares for yours.

Maybe Washington's gone all liberal-interpretation of the import laws like Florida has.

[nxski]

Hey, how about that? Spares for yours.

Maybe Washington's gone all liberal-interpretation of the import laws like Florida has.

Or maybe they were too high to care after having legalized marijuana

[Mr. Flibble]

Hey, how about that? Spares for yours.

Maybe Washington's gone all liberal-interpretation of the import laws like Florida has.

I can't figure out where it is, or hiw to bid on it. You still could not register it down here as you have to take it to WSP for approval, and they won't approve it.

But what you COULD do is take the engine and put it in a Montero to give yourself a LHD Pajero.

I still can't figure that website out at all. I think Jesse knows how to use it.


The other option (which would not be really legal; but I BET people do it in the US) is to buy it, fix it up and register it as a kit car. Washington actually has the most liberal registration laws after Florida for imports. The problem with getting a Delica down here is the law at the Federal level for a 25 year wait; equivalent to Canada's 15 year wait.

[mararmeisto]

That 25-yr rule is pretty stringent from what I've read recently. There was a off-road show held a few months ago, SEMA, and they had to get special permission to have new Toyota Hilux's be allowed in the show. Not driven around. Nobody was going to test drive them. Just on the floor. In the convention centre. Behind velvet ropes.

Gives one a sense of how scared, still, American producers are of foreign quality and product. <smh>

[Mr. Flibble]

That 25-yr rule is pretty stringent from what I've read recently. There was a off-road show held a few months ago, SEMA, and they had to get special permission to have new Toyota Hilux's be allowed in the show. Not driven around. Nobody was going to test drive them. Just on the floor. In the convention centre. Behind velvet ropes.

Gives one a sense of how scared, still, American producers are of foreign quality and product. <smh>

Tell me about it, I have been trying to get my letter of compliance from a SEMA Mitsubishi guy; and even HE has been unable to get one for me. Looks like Starbug will just get occasional offroad exercise for about 8 years. :(

Would be really nice to grab this damaged Deli for parts though; or to convert a Montero.

[Mr. Flibble]

Hey, how about that? Spares for yours.

Maybe Washington's gone all liberal-interpretation of the import laws like Florida has.

Or maybe they were too high to care after having legalized marijuana

Hehe, the law has not taken full effect down here yet. However, both King and Pierce County Police have thrown out all pending Marijuana cases. It probably won't be long before the the current "Schedule 1" rating on the drug collapses. Which all the police officers I know of down here support.


-- As an aside, I can't find this Delica down here at all. The salvage website is actually a SEO spamming website. :( So I can't actually find this Delica at all. It might even be possible to fix this one and get it passibly inspected by Washington State Patrol (depending on the salvage title - one site says "no-rebuild", which would fail WSP inspection, but another says "rebuild"; which would mean it would *PASS* WSP inspection!)

[FalcoColumbarius]

Hehe, the law has not taken full effect down here yet. However, ...

Nah... it takes a little while before you actually feel the affect...

Falco.

[Big-Bird]

The site requires you register in order to bid or even contact the seller.


http://www.easyexport.us/how_to_buy

[Mr. Flibble]

The site requires you register in order to bid or even contact the seller.


http://www.easyexport.us/how_to_buy

Yeah, but the site before lists the Delica; the easy export site does not. :(

I am not certain it actually exists in the inventory any more.

[jessef]

I couldn't find it in their current inventory.

It was a canadian L400 left in the US after being in an accident in the US and the owners probably did not value it enough to tow it back, so it was left there as a salvage vehicle.

[Mr. Flibble]

I couldn't find it in their current inventory.

It was a canadian L400 left in the US after being in an accident in the US and the owners probably did not value it enough to tow it back, so it was left there as a salvage vehicle.

And with the reflector that it has on, it sure looks like one of Mardy's.

[louistully]

Unless there happen to be two blue '94 Delicas with front end damage at a salvage yard in Arlington, WA, this vehicle was sold two years ago from Carport. I just got off the phone with them. Dang.

This link shows a posting from two years ago and the photos are the same:
http://www.cheapusedcarsbyowner.com/det ... sHsUD.html

Hope someone is enjoying it somewhere.

[Mr. Flibble]

Unless there happen to be two blue '94 Delicas with front end damage at a salvage yard in Arlington, WA, this vehicle was sold two years ago from Carport. I just got off the phone with them. Dang.

This link shows a posting from two years ago and the photos are the same:
http://www.cheapusedcarsbyowner.com/det ... sHsUD.html

Hope someone is enjoying it somewhere.

Oh, they probably are. Those things are in incredibly high demand. I once got offered $50,000 for mine near the University of Washington.

[del400]

here it is now...

on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitsubishi-Turb ... es&vxp=mtr