How to import a classic car yourself from the USA to UK

welcome to the car pervert I'm Johnny Smith How many times have you seen a car on a classifieds site like eBay Caron

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hemmings Craigslist some forum and you've fallen in love you think this is what I want I want that car and suddenly it backs off because you're a little scared because it's in a different country, it happens to a lot of people, it's one of the most common questions I get asked, especially about state cars. I have seen a car in the United States. I really want it. How can I take it to the UK?

That's why I made this guide. I hope this is a fairly comprehensive guide to show you what the myth entails, breaking down all the complexities of how to get a vehicle from the US to the UK and to do that I partnered with a company that I personally used for all the cars I I brought and I brought something like three or four cars, which is the right of CFR Rincón, let's continue with the guide, so, step number one, what are you buying? This is very

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ant, what car you are buying because they are divided into two categories, generally cars over 30 years old, groups of collectible cars or

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s under 30 years old.

Okay so for a car over 30 years old you pay a flat rate of 5% v80 and you pay 0%

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tax, that's pretty good right, it's for a car that is considered collectible, a car which is over 30 years old you will pay 20% v80 on the value of the car and then you will have to pay 10% import tax on the value of the car, also due to shipping costs I tend to buy older cars , cars over 30 years old, all of this is listed on the CFR website, which I'll leave. At the links below you can get a quote almost any time of the day, which is very helpful if you're on eBay at 1:00 in the morning and see something juicy and just want to get a rough idea of ​​how much it would cost.

It's hard to get that car into your living room, not really a living room, although that's okay, step number two, where is the car located? The reason the car is located is because the United States is quite big, yes, surprisingly, if you're wondering why it's all dark. outside it's because it's late here but he's in L.A. you're in L.A. with you and one, I'm actually sitting between San Diego and L.A. right now, but thank you so much for having the talk you know anywhere outside. . of the US where you approach the ports, whether it's Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Miami, Charleston, New York, whatever, if you buy a car in December in Hello, our truck driver will take the free hours just to get it out of the snow cars. hot west coast states Arizona Nevada Southern California tend to be sunburnt cars on the east coast to get more rust but if you find a newer car it might not matter or if you just buy a car that is super Weird and beggars can't be choosers, but you should keep in mind that my Dodge is the original license plate.

I bought this in San Diego in 2008, you can see that's what was labeled for that car to be picked up by the shipping agent for the The truck drove up from the seller's door, the seller actually locked the keys in the car minutes Before the truck appeared and they managed to get them out of the trunk, the car was loaded and taken to the port organized by CFR. For example, I have several friends who have imported cars for business and pleasure, people like Tim from Road house Motor Co. I heard you just imported another car from the United States.

No, no, you can probably see it behind. I can, I can see it. I was going to ask you how many cars you've imported now from states over 60. Okay, including the ones in the dot. Four people found four people or bought them and I helped them import. yes, 16+, so when you're looking for a car, do you really intentionally look at the west coast or the east coast or do you just search the US for the right car? I mean, there are steaks you avoid in the wetter, humid Rust Belt state, yes, misspelled or Florida, which is a piece of land with water on both sides, sea water, such a salty assumption and a curious rustiness there, Florida, they say the car was upside down in Florida, from the roof down instead of from the clinical side up.

The same thing was what encouraged me to bring my Dodge Charger in 2008 and that car ended up arriving at the dock about 48 hours before I got married and I traded it for my wedding day so I picked that car up from the dock myself oh my lord , he is a bully, there is desire, he had many mistakes when you do it. which is like raha, that's why I love it, because you can just play with it in 4 of 2530 miles per hour or you can call him immediately if you see a car that you want to buy, you can get a quote to transport that car. before you pull the trigger, usually how quickly they deliver the quote, they have a couple of different avenues, you can access our live chat, which for the most part is constantly covered, we do a lot of our business on WhatsApp, we do a lot. from quoting via text phone calls nowadays, you know there's nowhere to hide, everyone's practically reachable seven days a week and if you're not, I'd like to know why, well that's a blessing And a curse, isn't it?

Yes, first. Timing people into the chat is a great way to get a quick quote. I have had several occasions where an eBay auction ends in ten minutes and a client of mine calls me, it could be two in the morning, here I go quickly. I went out to the garage so my wife wouldn't be here. I'm talking on the phone. I didn't realize how dedicated you were. I'm a little worried about you, although if you do something you love, you never work a day. in your life apparently and I also love what I do. I have to say that if I did what you do, if I worked in the shipping business, I would ship stuff every damn week.

It would be so addictive that there are a few things you should really make sure you have before you buy a car and certainly before you trade it in and at the top of that list is the title, in other words the legal ownership documents for the car. You can buy a car without a title and have it shipped, but you will have to get someone like CFR Rincón to do the homework and help you get the title. The process can take four or six weeks and could cost you several hundred dollars, not to mention that the car will now be sitting. the warehouse potentially incurs storage, so there's just some other cost you need to consider.

My daughter didn't run it when I bought it, so the engine had no oil pressure and no fuel tank, if she doesn't tell me not a car. it doesn't work, it has no brake and I send the wrong truck to pick it up, we have a problem and that trucker is not going to pick up the car now, it will be delayed, we will have some problems, whereas if you just leave it I know you know exactly what the situation is and can be anything. I mean, I picked up cars that were on pallets and there were no wheels in a field in Kansas, we were still able to pick them up, but that's the customer exactly what was happening that I sent you we were able to send the wrecked vehicle and pick it up you know, okay, step number three, how fast do you want the vehicle?

If the vehicle you purchased is in a big city, it will. It usually takes two to four days from booking for the car to be collected and it would be on a ship within 14 days and two weeks. Well, step number four, this is the most important one. Shipping options. There are three shipping options to bring a car from the US to the UK, the first option is roll-on roll-off, also known as RORO roll-on roll-off, it is the cheapest method but also probably the least secure shipping method. By that I mean the car is physically driven onto the boat and tied down and then taken off the boat, okay, that means someone has to get in it and drive it, that means you can't have any belongings inside it that is not what the car came with when it was new, that means it could be subject to damage which also means that different people will drive it at different times is an economical way to ship the car.

I don't know if you want to call it a dark zone, but there's that period where you're not quite sure where ours is and who's inside you. I know the RORO vehicle will normally have to run and drive, there are some exceptions, sometimes they can be loaded and unloaded with something like a forklift I guess, but that personally comes with a cost most of the time. option two one option two is container shed with containers it's just a different ball game trucker if it's a truck the trucker makes a condition report the trucker takes photos the vehicle arrives at the warehouse where we also make a condition report and take photos again and cargo into the container where we video the cargo, photograph the cargo once it's all done, close them or put a seal on them, no one will touch it, unless of course customs decides to inspect the container, but as long as pass without problems, it will pass. directly through the agent and they are the next one to open and again it photographs and documents how the load comes out and it makes it much easier to file the insurance presentation, you know because you know exactly where that happened, so in a situation of shared container, the container is Usually containers about 40 feet long and twenty or forty feet.

I think I will see if I have a system where the car can be loaded on top at an angle or underneath so that your car is on top or under another vehicle and they are locked. Really great they are professionally loaded and Jerry sent me a picture of my Dodge waiting to be loaded which is great once the container is closed the car is secure its locked and ready now in a shared container you can put whatever. you want within reason within legal within the car, my Dodge came with a bunch of parts that I bought from the supplier in the past, the guys would always come here and buy the Volkswagen buses and they wanted stuff full of replacement doors doors and you know amen actually duty free they didn't have to pay and they would sell those parts they would pay for their stupidity and in fact it won't affect your import cost either because those are all parts for that car. the car doesn't have to run and drive, in fact my Dodge obviously didn't work.

I know people have imported cars in containers that didn't even have engines. I know people have brought American pickup trucks with motorcycles on the back. You are allowed to do this as long as everything is inside your own vehicle. In fact, the shipping agent appreciates it because it maximizes the space he has purchased. The real key is that you want to make sure you have an inventory sheet with the title of everything you have. inside the vehicle, you know, for example, if I have a box of clothes, I can only write a box of clothes with values ​​of 400 dollars.

You know it doesn't have to be that detailed, but customs opens it and on the VL it just says it's a car, but they look at it and see that it's full of everything that could be considered potential contraband, so if you have a list, it just makes things a little cleaner, cars have to be clean underneath, no I don't want things like spiders and foreign dirt in there, but what Joey says on CFR is please don't have your car professionally validated right before Put it in a container, that's a bad idea because of the humidity, it will get hot. and cold, hot, cold, you run a big risk of mold getting inside the container.

Insurance companies won't actually cover mold damage to help combat it. We place bags of desiccant inside the container. We also place them inside vehicles. Usually if you have mold it's just a matter of a deep clean in there, but it can be a little depressing, you go to pick up your car, you open it and it exists and then you have option 3, which is a full container that you don't share. with anyone, in other words you reserve your own container, whether it's 20 or 40 feet, that's for people who are just selfish, well it's not really for people who are importing multiple vehicles themselves or maybe have I've been with a friend and they want to fill a container between them, so I know dealers who bring in British plastics, for example, like Austin Healey and e-type Jags, and then they just buy as many old mopeds and bikes as they can to get around the limit and that's only if they get money. for those, it only helps to pay for shipping, so those are your three options, shared/consolidated containerization, probably the most popular and then your own container, you pay the US side before paying the UK side and the US side.

It is the trucker who is going to pick up the vehicle and take it to the port and then the loading fee to put it in the container and then transport the ship across the sea, that is the only payment for the United States, the other payment will come a In a minute, that's the UK payout. I'm going to give a couple of examples that CFR has given me for cars that have been brought from the US to the UK and the breakdown of those costs sometimes depends on the size of the car, obviously it depends on where the car is, tooIt depends on how fast you want it, there are several variables, that's why there is no fixed price, okay, step 5, then your car has been brought to the port before the container or car is loaded, the customer has to pay Pickup costs, as well as the cost of shipping to the shipping agent, the card sometimes has to wait to be loaded onto a ship. or shipping container and they don't charge you for that waiting time because it's in the shipping agent's interest, like CFR, to make it work, they don't want dozens of cars lying around, so these are the next things you should have completed before that your car can leave the United States on a boat, here is your list of results an SLI for a completed POA form a copy of your passport a copy of the vehicle title a copy of the bill of sale, which can be a hundred for a second-hand car or the receipt from the dealer, or eBay received a photo of the vehicle in a photo of the VIN, the vehicle identification number, step number six, where and with whom a company like CFR will usually give you the best price, meaning the car will arrive where they got the best price or when the next ship leaves for example, but the main places that car will arrive when it docks in the UK, our gateway Felixstowe Southampton Liverpool London which applies If something is shipped from Miami Tilbury and Grangemouth, can the customer choose which port it arrives at and can they choose the operator who deals with it at this end?

Maybe or yes, it depends on the service. In the port you have other ports where you know that outside of Miami you will not go to Felix, although you will not go to Southampton, you will go to the London gateway, so we have certain agents that we have assigned as our agents for the rat containers. they handle the unloading they stock the shelves until they have gathered enough shelves where they then load a container that comes from wherever they are back to us step number seven in the ocean it is a ship a ship travels in the ocean you can have bad weather there You can There will be delays, but usually these things sync up pretty well and of course with today's technology you can check on your phone or your computer where exactly your boat is in the ocean and you can know when it will arrive. and you can say the name of the captain and the name of the ship and which captain went to breakfast that morning, okay, the last few bits that are found, but you get the idea, you get a lot of details and I quite enjoy that process of waiting for the car arrives in the ocean, this is when there is a time difference, if you shipped it from the west coast the process will usually take six weeks and it's usually six weeks from when you pick up the car to when you deliver it, not just in the ocean , are two. weeks faster usually from the east coast, so four weeks and thirty days also in Houston, you can ship from Houston, anything south that you know, down south, ship with a view from Houston, yeah, yeah, Cody Toms , that is something that is a little cheaper than between the two.

As for the price and between the two, yes, yes, when it comes time to ship the vehicle, the question always arises as to who was carrying it. I'll go too far, say the captain gets drunk and crashes into an iceberg and the entire ship. it sinks and if that happens on my cars and it's in a container on that ship something is going to pay for it, well that's not true actually the BL is pretty ironclad in that they only cover a maximum of $500 by Beall and that's only if you can try the Insurance is definitely recommended, but not necessary.

Step number eight at home is the most exciting, so once the car lands on the UK, US side, the deal is done. They really passed the baton to their preferred handler as soon as possible. when you land in UK you have to pay to UK side, if you don't pay the money the car is not released. It's really that simple if your car has to wait in storage during this time because you can't arrange to pick it up or receive it, you will incur storage costs, but basically this is the amount of money you will pay, you will have to wait it out. customs at the destination and then you will pay a handling charge of 450 pounds. and the port charges that charge £450 are the same, whatever the car, it's just the flat rate and that covers a number of things that are seen now as a sorted carpet warehouse, long before a hundred and fifty pounds included the THC dredging from port if container to warehouse. unloading the container, returning the empty container to the port and of course customs clearance, the cost is based on consolidated shipping, 450 of your share of the total container bill, since you share the space with customers, you are dividing the cost. keeping the net cost for the individual ship and lower if you ship before container these charges will all be for you it would be higher if you had multiple vehicles the cost per car could be lower as there is only one shipment there is a service as in In the United States, where a truck can come and pick up from your car basement door, you can have your car delivered to your door if you can't be bothered to pick it up.

Okay, step number nine, now you need to register it. I'm not going to go into too much detail in this video with registration, but it goes without saying that a used car requires you to apply to the DVLA for one of these, it's called v50 5/5, the application for first vehicle tax. and registering a used motor vehicle, a transport company like CFR and handling agent in the UK should provide you with everything you need for a nova and nova is a vital form that you will need to complete to register your car in the UK United. means a notification of vehicle arrival, in other words, this car has been brought into this country on this day and all fees for registering a car with this form have been paid.

It's 55 pounds. If you import a car from somewhere in Europe, you have to do the novi

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to notify it, but if it comes from the United States, the agent is part of the customs clearance, vehicle arrivals notification type of process, not a garbage voxel or an average Chevrolet. I guess we should round it up if we take step number 10 to enjoy. your card my Dodge came from Felixstowe and the Volvo came from Felixstowe in that case we actually drove to pick up those cars ourselves I mean my friends Simon browse this video it actually shows him and me playing the harp in a 1979 Volvo 262 pitoni car that she bought. for someone as described, it's kind of exciting, we just made him laugh because of its tires and first impressions, yes it's solid, it's worn but solid, however, being a dry state car, an Arizona car, yes, It had a poor repaint, that's the polite way to put it.

It's absolutely but and that's pretty common for a lot of American cars and hot states to get blown up on the panels, they're all pretty good, vinyl roofs have come back at some point in their life, let's get that car home that I bought really cheap . Shipping was almost the same amount as the car, but the car was very, very solid, rot free and I could never have bought that car in this country. A much rarer car, you can't find them and that's why I bought them. I import cars for several reasons. The ones I imported are not restored.

I import them and then restore them predominantly for weddings, film and television, that's the bread and butter here, so yeah, I hope you enjoyed this guide. I would like you to comment on what cars you have imported or what vehicles have you imported? Would you like one of these guides to a different country? Maybe import them from Japan or maybe import them from Europe. People are afraid of these kinds of things. Import vehicles. It's not as scary as it seems at first, you understand? many of our stories of people importing cars don't be intimidated, you can find the best car treasures in other countries, it's not as expensive as you think, it's definitely easier than you think, as long as you're a good communicator. and make sure you get all the documentation for the car you are buying, that will make customs very fast, that will make me importers, it is very easy and will get you the car in the shortest time.

Thank you very much to see. I hope this guide has been useful. I would love to hear your feedback if you have decided to import a car, whether you have done what it was, whether you liked it, what you found easy or difficult about the process and all the things I have been talking about in this video or in the description below, so you can go to the CFR Corner website, you can get a quote, you can check out the hit list of things you need if you don't want to see me again and you just want to read the words, go to that if you haven't subscribed yet, Subscribe if you are patreon.

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