can anyone in australia provide any feedback or recommendation on an importing service for a speedster, any tips to be aware of would be good too !
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It is a nightmare to do properly. Newly built requires an ADR number and currently no US maker has an ADR number. We lost our ADR number when we made some major chassis changes (not because something was wrong, but because it needs retested). We are going through the ADR process again currently.
From what I understand, you can import an "old timer" starting in 2019, BUT they now check the year of first registration and not simply the sate of "year" on the title, so it has to have been registered for road use over 25 years ago to qualify. Previously it was a set date of Jan 1989 to be considered an "old timer".
thanks this makes sense, there is no way I would pay the price of what they are going for in Australia at the moment, its completely ridiculous considering what else is out there. Yes they are drop dead gorgeous, but after spending a bit of time in all types of VW's an Porsche's find it difficult to justify...What about as a personal import ? ie registered for 1 year overseas then gets sent back to Australia ?
How about just buying/importing a fiberglass body and build your own?
You could have a body made up and even painted and brought in as a bed 
....then moved to a VW pan or frame ... just kidding. But whatever works to get the border guards to help get it in..
haha the thought had crossed my mind
cheers wolfgang, I had thought of this a while ago and looked high and low for someone who produces a right hand version but could not find one anywhere that looked like a decent copy, the ones I did find do not export, so parked the idea, since then I have been driving a friends original 356, and a few weeks back drove a replica and it flew, so now I must have one. I'm just in the middle of looking at some car import services from the states but I always feel a certain amount of uneasiness handing over and trusting them to deliver.
I know for a fact that Greg Leach at Vintage Motorcars is now producing Speedsters and will do a RHD. Also I believe Carey (1st response to your thread) at Special Edition/Beck can also do RHD.
Good luck, Aussie.
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Here's another shell in FL - reportedly made by Street Beasts (CMC follow-on company). Moving the gauge binnacle or adding another would not be difficult.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/cl...etail.php?id=2106814
Oh wow cheers Wolfgang. as it turns out I have a friend who has imported 4 vw's from the states so I am hopefully going to use all of his contacts. I just now need to find something worthy of importing. Still haven't ruled out building my own so I will look into these also. Really appreciate your input here
If you are interested in a Vintage Super wide body in red...send me a message
I dropped kitman a mail if they aren't overpriced and work with Australian regulations I'm in !!