Rob Keeble
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I have a somewhat stupid question to ask but going to ask it anyway.
Can a car like say a 2003 GMC Safari van by van i mean something like a service persons van, be purchased in say Buffalo / Niagara area or even say Ohio or Michigan, then be driven across country to California and sold in California.
I know California has very different emissions regulations and i have observed that in buying car parts there are different skus of the same part one being suitable for sale and use in California the other technically being illegal in California.
Reason i ask is my wife has a niece which has plans to come out here, drive to Buffalo, buy a van, (yeah right a used service van from rust alley) then register it (which i have no idea how they think they going to do that without a US address, then, insure it (yeah right again and add their youthful age) then drive it across the Canadian border back to our place, then have the desire that they get either me to help or free access to my shop and tools to kit this van out with a bed and cupboards ( yeah right thats only what 20 seconds on you tube right) then, deep breath, they going to head off across Canada to Vancouver, drive across US border and make their way down to California at which time they will according to them, sell said van and get this they expect to make most of their money back.
Please don't laugh, i did enough of that already when i got told by SWMBO the news this morning.
I think they been watching some hippie movie from 50's or 60's and them old VW vans with the nice simple air cooled engines. Lol.
Any input anyone please, i am trying to restore my sanity.
Of course any facts i present that are contrary to what they want to hear has me labeled Grinch.
Can a car like say a 2003 GMC Safari van by van i mean something like a service persons van, be purchased in say Buffalo / Niagara area or even say Ohio or Michigan, then be driven across country to California and sold in California.
I know California has very different emissions regulations and i have observed that in buying car parts there are different skus of the same part one being suitable for sale and use in California the other technically being illegal in California.
Reason i ask is my wife has a niece which has plans to come out here, drive to Buffalo, buy a van, (yeah right a used service van from rust alley) then register it (which i have no idea how they think they going to do that without a US address, then, insure it (yeah right again and add their youthful age) then drive it across the Canadian border back to our place, then have the desire that they get either me to help or free access to my shop and tools to kit this van out with a bed and cupboards ( yeah right thats only what 20 seconds on you tube right) then, deep breath, they going to head off across Canada to Vancouver, drive across US border and make their way down to California at which time they will according to them, sell said van and get this they expect to make most of their money back.
Please don't laugh, i did enough of that already when i got told by SWMBO the news this morning.
I think they been watching some hippie movie from 50's or 60's and them old VW vans with the nice simple air cooled engines. Lol.
Any input anyone please, i am trying to restore my sanity.
Of course any facts i present that are contrary to what they want to hear has me labeled Grinch.