I also talked to them. They will have a donor car from france for LHD and gave me a quote of about 19,000 Euros which is a bout $26000. That and they will pay for a ticket for me to go to their shop before they ship the car to the US. Total should be about $28,000. Not bad at all, and certainly not premium.
so it was 28K$ USD for JUST the donor? Please tell me its nearly a complete build?
See the problem is this gents, I just looked over the EPA.gov and the DOT.gov websites for how to import a car. I have good news and bad news.
Bad news is , if you bring in a car thats already assembled its considered a "vehicle" and as such it needs to be imported using a registered importer (they charge you fees) to sign off on it, the "RI" has to get a list of parts (wheels, indicators, a bunch of stuff) that the US doesn't deem worthy and all of those parts need to be replaced, (more fees). You will not be able to get your car off the dock without fixing these issues, and paying out of the nose.
Good news is, you can import a kit car body and its considered "vehicle parts" you can then import the bare LHD frame/chassis and again its considered parts. I never intended to use the Peugeot drivetrain anyway so i dont really care, also I will be changing the wheels anyway so essentially what im saying is you want to import the body and chassis here and assemble it here in the states.
You then register the car witht he DMV as a kit car, part of this process is taking the car to the BAR referee station and getting it stickered as to what year the car is considered. They do it one of two ways (1) if the body kit clearly resembles a particular car (haha, extreme is too exact, no way they wnt think its damn REAL) they will issue the date as the first year the 360 modena was built, (2) sometimes if its not easy to tell what the car is, you can register it based on the age of the engine block, a lot of kit car tuners put in old ass engines into the cars so essentially they have no smog requirement, because the engine was before 1970 or something like that...
anyway, just please do your research about the rules an regulations of importing a car not built in the US....its not just as easy as shipping it over here and driving it off the dock.....I wish it was easier, I want a 360 bad!