Cars were cut up for scrap, shipped to another country and reassembled. Hows that for a salvage title? Watch the 20w70 LG brand oil at 35:45.
Cars were cut up for scrap, shipped to another country and reassembled. Hows that for a salvage title? Watch the 20w70 LG brand oil at 35:45.
At the machine shop, we sold Bran Penn straight 60 and straight 70 oil.
Apparently, after a 5 second pass, the oil in a Top Alcohol engine is largely raw methanol, so you have to have thick enough oil that it still has some semblance of viscosity once it's diluted that far.
Not sure I understand the business model of what they are doing? They had to have paid higher labor rates for the cars to get cut up according to the rebuilders requirements. Then they pay to have them re-welded. All just to save some shipping cost?
Or is there a tax dodge in here somewhere? Like when Australia assembled "completely Knocked Down" cars from the UK?
This is a couple of Australian build MGBs as they came off the boat.
NOHOME said:Not sure I understand the business model of what they are doing? They had to have paid higher labor rates for the cars to get cut up according to the rebuilders requirements. Then they pay to have them re-welded. All just to save some shipping cost?
Or is there a tax dodge in here somewhere? Like when Australia assembled "completely Knocked Down" cars from the UK?
This is a couple of Australian build MGBs as they came off the boat.
Something like that. Like I know importing to the US you can bring in a chassis and engine separately and not have it count as a car for emissions purposes if you wanted a track car. Cutting the cars up probably means paying scrap metal prices for it and different duties most likely.
Actuall the description says just that-
1️⃣ Cutting Process in Australia: These used Japanese cars are carefully cut into sections—front half, rear half, and chassis—before being packed and shipped. Since they arrive as 'scrap,' high customs duties don’t apply. 2️⃣ Import & Customs Clearance: Once in Afghanistan, these cut cars are legally imported under customs rules—no smuggling involved! Buyers save huge costs due to this process. 3️⃣ Rebuilding & Welding: Skilled Afghan mechanics expertly weld the pieces back together, reinforcing the structure and making the cars roadworthy again. Despite safety concerns, people rely on these affordable vehicles.
Several outcomes all somewhat dodgy.
A bunch of body shops got busted for doing this and fudging inspections in British Columbia about 20 years ago.
Crash safety? What crash safety?
When I lived in the Caribbean there was a time when people would do this to brand new cars to exploit a loophole in the import duties - they'd take a new car, cut it in half somewhere near the B-pillar, import the halves and then put the car back together. This would save roughly the car's initial cost in import duties because there were none on parts. There were businesses that specialized in bringing in cars chopped in half.
A lot of scrutiny fell on the process after a gruesome accident where an AE111 Levin that had gone through this broke apart somewhere near the weld line on impact in a high-speed wreck. The loophole was closed by putting equally massive duties on car parts as whole cars 
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