oh grashopper you have much to learn.... no offence meant to be taken...
Canada has a 15yr, which is currently somewhat of an issue in Canada and some feel that they should change it back to a 25yr rule... so we are actually the lucky ones... its the USA that has a 25yr rule(some officials in canada have said we should match the USA's rule just for the sake of matching it)
grey market vehicles are vehicles registered as kit cars, or homebuilds...
also you cant just "say an R33 has had an R32 headlight conversion" becuase neither of the headlights are DOT compliant...
there are a couple ways to get a vehicle that is not yet eligible by age into the USA and Canada the most common is as a kit car or homebuild...
the difference with a kitcar or homebuild car between the usa and canada is simple...
in the USA you can bring in a complete car but first you take it apart and bring in the shell of the car, then bring in the body panels, then the engine and drive train, and finally the interior, all in seperate shipments, reassemble it and have it registered as a homebuild/kit car and then it gets insured asa grey market vehicle... but grey market vehicles still need to conform to state and federal safety and emisions regulations...
you cant do that process in canada...
in canada you'd have to bring in two seperate vehicles both disassembled/wrecked and listed strictly as parts , then take the two cars and make one out of them... then get it assigned a CDN vin # make sure its all compliant to standard vehicles regs have it registered after being inspected as a kit car/home build, then insure as grey market... same thing for emissions and other regs and safety equipment...
its more hassle than what its worth to have a street legal R34, unless you have around 100k to throw away on a car... and if you have 100k you might as well get an R35.... although if i had 100k to throw away id prolly have another 100k as well and i'd have both... hell id get every single GTR ever made all the way back to the begining
