Chop Chop .... imported cars in many parts .....???

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Re: Chop Chop .... imported cars in many parts .....???

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In Thailand they used to pretend import cars as parts until they got caught it seems.
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Re: Chop Chop .... imported cars in many parts .....???

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The production line tuktuks (including ours) are imported as parts and then assembled here - therefore, no vehicle import tax.
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Re: Chop Chop .... imported cars in many parts .....???

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The welded-together wreck scenario isn't as common as it used to be, but buyer beware. Vehicles are dismantled for import to Cambodia though, as there is far less tax on parts than on a full working vehicle. You have to keep in mind that a car you'd get $500 for or have to pay to get towed away in the west can still command a high price here. Someone was trying to sell a 1991 Corolla or whatever for $5000 here the other day. So there's big money even in shitbox cars.
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Re: Chop Chop .... imported cars in many parts .....???

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I have seen a place in PP where they weld those half cars together, quite a large warehouse behind a factory on a small road somewhere in that Daedalus of flooding roads over st. 271.
I am trying to remember how I ended up there, hard to recall, I think a client was looking for a lot of truck tires to refurbish in his new factory and among a series of appointment we ended up there as they had a mountain of old tires and getting more daily. A dozen guys where welding cars in the background.
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