Smuggler's Hijinks

[luvrbus]

I looked inside a new AZ Tropper's Chevy SUV those things have more electronic gadgets than airplane now and the outside looked like plain SUV till you looked then the ghost marking would show up telling you it was a AZ Tropper it was pretty neat,dispatch could shut it down if someone was trying to drive off if a officer was down, and he wasn't getting out of it 

[Tedsoldbus]

My neighbor up the street is a Ga Trooper. He said the stealth plate reading car they have finds them but then a marked unit makes the stop most of the time.
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do.....

[Jim Blackwood]

It's really just a hypothetical, probably never happen. But what if can be fun...

Let's say I was heading down to Texas for awhile with the bus. Came along to Houston or San Antonio and thought it'd be fun to cross the border. Went browsing and saw-- Hey, that Jimny is for sale! How much? Really cheap! Sure, why not?

Well because you can't tag it in the states is why not. But not illegal to own it. Not illegal to use parts from it. Question is, how to get it back across the border?

OK there should be multiple answers to this question. Put it on a trailer? That might be the most straightforward answer and the least troublesome. If the toad isn't along, just rent a u-haul car carrier trailer and go. Does that work? Is U-haul in Mexico? I dunno...

How about, if the toad is along? On a trailer. Just swap and maybe take the vin tag and possibly a section of the frame off the sammy back home? That should be fairly safe and reasonably convenient. Maybe leave the sammy in Texas and bring the Jimny back? Inconvenient that. Also inconvenient disposing of a sammy without the vin tag. Junkyard would take it I guess but you pretty much write that off and sammys are worth some coin even without the tag. How else would you do it?

Jim

[luvrbus]

Keep officials out of the deal trying to be legal you would be fine ,some of those need to get a life 

[Tedsoldbus]

Put it in a closed trailer that says "Illegal Immigrant Transport". After next week when title 42 ends you won't even get stopped.

[Jim Blackwood]

Cool! What a great idea!

Jim

[windtrader]

Put it in a closed trailer that says "Illegal Immigrant Transport". After next week when title 42 ends you won't even get stopped.

Now, that's on the right track. Better yet, fill a 53' trailer full of parts of value in the USA with that same signage. May as go big.

[Sebulba]

Do you remember the Mexi-beetle?   The old beetle was being made in Mexico for many years after they were not available here.  Somehow you could send your old rusty beetle down there and they woudl use just enough of it to make you a new beetle.  Can't remember the details exactly, but it sounds a little like what your after.

Seb

[Jim Blackwood]

Yeah as in use just the vin plate! This thing came from Indiana. You ever see what they do to a car in terms of rust? It ain't pretty. Well maybe the tires too, they are pretty good.

Jim