Australia

[Stumpy]

What is it about Australia at the moment and the interest in buying UK cars?

Had 2 enquiries and an offer in the last 2 days.

Are they worth a zillion pounds over there?! One guy was saying there's only about 30 cars over there so I can understand the demand for certain...

[Mike R]

Only 28 cars went there officially and a few more have gone over there with their owners since.

They have recently relaxed their import laws, so as long as you get prior approval, you can bring in cars now.

Obviously being a RHD market, all that needs changing is the speedo to km/h :).

A 95k km (60k ish miles) goes for AUD$ 155k (£86k)....

[NBTBRV8]

What is it about Australia at the moment and the interest in buying UK cars?

Had 2 enquiries and an offer in the last 2 days.

Are they worth a zillion pounds over there?! One guy was saying there's only about 30 cars over there so I can understand the demand for certain...


I live over here and they RARELY come up for sale. However I don't know why they think that they can import then in your circumstances, as they can't. Well at least for road use.


https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/vehicles/imports/quiz/

[Stumpy]

Well I have an inspection tomorrow, with a view to a sale, and then shipping to Oz. He did mention there was something silly like +50% import taxes to sort out when it gets there...

[shimmy]

Well I have an inspection tomorrow, with a view to a sale, and then shipping to Oz. He did mention there was something silly like +50% import taxes to sort out when it gets there...

Did you sell it for £5:50 and the car mats for £50k?

[Gazza]

Years ago I was involved with shipping a Z3M Coupe to Australia, it was stripped down to body/engine & trans/ rear suspension and diff. A parts car that avoided import taxes.

[NBTBRV8]

Years ago I was involved with shipping a Z3M Coupe to Australia, it was stripped down to body/engine & trans/ rear suspension and diff. A parts car that avoided import taxes.


The only way they could have registered the car is if it was rebirthed as another car here. Australian delivered (or approved imports) are given a compliance plate. Broadly speaking, no plate, no registration.

[Stumpy]

Did you sell it for £5:50 and the car mats for £50k?

Not quite
The usual story again. Inspection was fine, picked up on a couple of minor points (needed a new exhaust gas temp sensor & battery wasn't holding charge - knew about that one). But he's decided to chip away at the price even further than we had already agreed on, so it's back for sale again.

What a waste if time and effort plus the cost of the inspection he's paid for, which just have been £2-300?

[Stumpy]

Car now sold and heading overseas, although to Hong Kong not Australia.

The buyer from Oz was unhappy with £500 he was negotiating on, so another buyer was found.