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Mail From: "Quentin J Sarafinchan" <(email redacted)>

Poor guy... I remember being a outcast Canuck when I lived in
California... so I feel for ya! *grin*

Cheers,
Quentin

The difference for him was that he was moving which is different then
already living in the US and buying a car from a different country.
There are a couple rules for me to buy a car from the US, I think it
has to be atleast 5 years old, and I can't sell it for 6 months or
something... I'd need to check into that again.


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:24:26 -0400, (email redacted) wrote:

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> Get ahold of Keith at FM, he's a Canadian in Exile after all. ;)
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> Wallyman
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> "Burgess, Michael L."

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> <mburgess@tkt-jakusa.thysse To:
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> nkrupp.com> cc:

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> Subject:
> Importing Cars from Canada to USA was: [npc][lmc] everyone's dail

> y
> 08/23/2004 07:28 AM choice,
> winter, and or rainy day beater....?

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> Has anyone here on the list (u.s. resident) ever bought a car in
> canada and
> then drove it back across the border and registered it here in the
> U.S.?
>
>
> I occassionally work in Windsor, ON. And I have seen some great cars
> for
> really good prices that the U.S. dollar bring down to a even more
> resonable
> price.
>
>
> If anyone has information on this subject, your comments are
> appreciated.
>
>
> -Mike Burgess
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Regie L Bryant [mailto:(email redacted)]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:31 AM
> To: Wiseman, Curtis J
> Cc: (email redacted)
> Subject: RE: [npc][lmc] everyone's daily choice, winter, and or rainy
> day beat er....?
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> If you can find a Corolla wagon, they are built in Japan while the
> sedans
> are built in CA. The wagons have a great deal of room and hence
> utility,
> and are pretty bulletproof.
>
>
> I just replaced a cracked exhaust manifold on my wife's 93 Corolla
> wagon
> from a 90 Geo Prism. The Geo had the O2 sensor in the manifold, the
> Toyota
>
> had it in the down pipe. I briefly thought I'd run 2 sensors, one
> unpluged
>
> as a "hot backup". Decided that was too hokey, made a block-off
> plate.
>
>
> At any rate, Toyota drilled me for a $28 exahaust manifold gasket.
> Wish I
>
> had thought of finding the price of the Geo part...(just bought the
> same
> OEM gasket for my Miata, it was more complicated than the Toyota
piece
> and
> was only $8 from Parts Dood.)
>
>
> I also just put the second set of brake pads on it for an average of
> over
> 90,000 miles per set! The rotors are hardly worn. The car has been
> driven
>
> every day for 11 years straight, 183,000 hard milest. Other than
> normal
> preventive maintenance, the only thing that it has done (OK, there is
> the
> cracked manifold as well) was eat two drivers side CV joints. (A
> complete
> drive axle is only $81 from NAPA, though.)
>
>
> This is the car she was driving before she recently bought a new
> 5-series.
> A bit of an upgrade...
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> "Wiseman, Curtis
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> J" To:
> (email redacted)
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> <curtis.j.wiseman cc:
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> @lmco.com> Subject: RE:
[npc][lmc]
> everyone's daily choice, winter, and or rainy day beat
>
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> er....?
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> 08/20/2004 10:11
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> AM
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> Also, if you *want* a Toyota Corolla for a beater, buy a Chevy
Nova/Geo
> Prizm (depending on the year) instead. Same car mechanically but you
> get to knock off lots of $ from the price since it's not a Toyota.
> Your
> insurance should be lower for the same reason too.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 9:08 AM
> To: Burgess, Michael L.; (email redacted)
> Subject: Re: [npc][lmc] everyone's daily choice, winter, and or rainy
> day beat er....?
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>
>
>
>
> Older Nissan Sentra or a Protege not a great car but very cheap.
Every
> wants a Honda or Toyota which make the prices too high in my option.
> But
> then ANY CAR will do well in the snow if you spent the $400 for a set
> of
> snow tires on steel rims. I was able to drive to work in 22" of snow
in
> my miata about 2 years ago. I don't think AWD is worth extra money
and
> or problems and also sucks down the gas a lot faster.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Burgess, Michael L.
> > [mailto:(email redacted)]
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 02:36 PM
> > To: (email redacted)
> > Subject: [npc][lmc] everyone's daily choice, winter, and or rainy
day
> beat er....?
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've decided to pursue the sale of my daily 2003 Diesel
VW
> jetta. I
> > love the mileage, but I won't mind filling up more at the pump once
> > the car is gone. I've had no problems, but I just cannot warrant
the
> > money I am paying for it per month.
> >
> > My question is:
> >
> > What is everyone's choice beater for rainy/winter weather? I live
in
> > Michigan so we can have a few bad snow days, and well I refuse to
> > drive my miata in the snow, with or without snow tires, so that is
> > crossed off the list.
> >
> > I am looking for a car that would also double as a daily driver
too,
> > when the miata doesn't feel like going to work...
> >
> > I guess the budget is really open to a reasonable car...I wouldn't
> > mind spending a little extra and picking up a turbo AWD talon ESi
or
> > Eclipse gsx....
> >
> > A honda beater seems like the best bet, but can anyone comment on
the
> > quality of those and other reasonably priced cars?
> >
> > I paid 3500 for my '91 miata with 63,000 miles on it and I cannot
> > critique the quality of my car at all. Probably the best $/car
i've
> > ever spent hands down.
> >
> > Is there any fwd 'sure bet' cars out there similar to the miata's
> near
>
>
> > bullet proof quality and maintainability? Possibly a truck out
> there?
> >
> > All comments appreciated.
> >
> > -Mike Burgess
> > '91 FMII
> > Michigan
> >
> >
> >
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Cheers,
Quentin