In the mid- ‘60s, you could by a car in the UK, drive it around for a while and send it back to the States as a used car, which bore a very low import tariff compared to a new car. Taking advantage of this, I arranged to buy a US specification Sunbeam Alpine sports car from the Rootes dealer in Piccadilly Street, London, drive it around Europe for a couple of weeks and ship it to Seattle from Amsterdam. The difference between the cost of the car, all taxes in both counties, insurance and shipping and the price of the same new car in Seattle was enough to finance the European vacation. Hell of a deal!
So this is my model of that Sunbeam Alpine, same color and everything.
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