F.A.Q. information about Import Cars and Parts
Any questions you have, we are here to answer.
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Our office works using 2 ways:
1] We export the car to you;
2] You will be the exporter, but we help you to have permission in Brazil. You will export the cars using your name and your documents. We will register you as an exporter in Brazil, you will have our help in all logistics to bring the car to Transit Institute to get new documents and contract the Freight Company to pick up the car and delivery to the Port that you choose.
You found a car you like!
We go to check this car in person for you!
When you find a car like the way that you are looking for, in our offers or in any part of South America, we can go to check this car for you, make our own pictures, take the measure of the body filler in the car, check the structure and make a video to send to you.
An example of our report you can see below.
Costs to check a car:
If the car is very close to our office, the visit is free, but if the car is far away then we have a cost sheet that changes the value depending on the distance; It's the same expense you would have if you were here, see the "go to page: Reference costs for visit cars.pdf" file on the webpage.
Choosing and Buying the car, on our webpage you will find many options:
go to page: sale VW Bus T1 T2 split - camper van / westfalia
We need to know what you are looking for.
You choose the car and we will export it for you.
Import 1 or 2 cars?
inside the car there is a lot of space...
Tip: to import 2 cars the fees, container, freight and Port expenses are almost the same to import 1 car.
Normally the profit of the 2nd car, cheap car, is sufficient to pay all the expenses that you will have.
- Parts: Enjoy the space inside the cars: All the time we export cars with parts inside, parts in Brazil are very cheap.
- Original cars:
We will find an excellent car, cheap, in some little farm lost in the center of Brazil.
It is important that cars are in places that never rain.
You will see a dirty car but minimal rust and minimum car crash because little cities do not have traffic and parking lot problems.
- Restored cars:
We will find these cars in the cities around Sao Paulo city, where our office is located.
Is necessary be careful, we need to check the restoration in person.
If the workshop used "Car body filler", under temperature -10oC (-14oF) plastic and stainless steel will separate.
Technical Report - Service to verify cars in Brazil
We will check the car you found in Brazil.
Services:
. We will personally check the car, you will receive our report, like the one on the side and also photos, films, plastic filler report, car owner's audio "translated" and report from the Transit Institute; an example you can see by clicking below.
. We will buy the car, if you want, and prepare the documents for export;
. Delivered at the port of your choice or in your home.
car found by a customer - Verified, Purchased and Exported
Escort XR3 Pace car F1,GP Brazil 1984. car in our office parking lot
. we went to check the car;
. was sent: photos, video and our comments;
. the order was to buy and export.
read more at: motortudo "safety car GP Brasil 1984"
https://motortudo.com/escort-xr3-pace-car-serie-especial-o-safety-car-do-gp-brasil-1984/
VW Bus T1 1975 German TÜV approved
photo sent by car dealer in Germany
Choosing a Car to Restore
For restoration, we advise you to choose a VW Bus until 1967. You will spend the same money to restore any car, the color doesn't matter you will choose the color(s).
Why until 1967?
Because the VW Bus Split Window (2 windows in front) model was manufactured in Germany until 1967 after that was made the Bay Window model (1 window in front). But in Brazil, the VW Bus Split Window model was manufactured up to 1975.
TÜV "details check list"
The car needs to work and run perfectly, of course, but there are small details that must be done.
the TÜV and H-registration clearance:
. change all the lights, front and rear, only one factory in Brazil offers the correct lights indicator;
. the tires you will need install new in Germany, countries with different weather use rubber and different design;
. check the alignment of the doors;
. change the tire rims;
. install the original fuel hose (if it's transparent, we will replace it);
. battery attached properly;
. change hoses and cables and fixed properly;
. check the pressure in the brake system;
. wheel alignment (an alignment corrects the angles of the tires so that they come into contact with the road in just the right way);
. tire balance (a tire balance corrects the weight imbalance on your tire and wheel assemblies);
. chock absorber needs to be new.
EUROPEAN UNION
Import: No dutty, 7% tax
"COLLECTOR'S ITEMS" SAVE POWERFUL STEERING
Since 2014 it has been possible, under certain conditions, not to pay any customs duties for imported classic cars.
"Collection item": No duty, seven percent tax
Under certain conditions, vintage cars are defined as collection items when they are imported into the EU. That means: no customs duties and a reduced import tax rate of seven percent. The criteria for customs tariff 9705 are set out in the Combined Nomenclature of the EU in Chapter 97 - the latest legal text can be found in the Official Journal of the EU: L273 / 677, Chapter 97
*. Accordingly, the following three prerequisites are required for classification as a collector's item:
. The vehicle must be in its original condition, without any major changes or modifications;
. It must be at least 30 years old (unless it was used in a historical event or has achieved significant success as a racing car);
. The vehicle model may no longer be manufactured.
It is important that the importer declares his vehicle as a "collector's item when declaring it".
read more about it:
Importing into Canada
Did you know that vehicles older than 15 years of age and buses manufactured before January 1st, 1971 are not regulated at the time of importation by the Motor Vehicle Safety Act?
Hunting VW Bus T1 in Brazil Tourism
Visit our office, parking lot, workshop and let's buy the cars together
You decide to come to Brazil and use our assistance to buy cars:
Combi Bus T1 Tourism our special service:
. 10 days before you arrive at the airport we will send you some update car options to create a visit map.
. We will pick up you in the Airport waiting for you with water, cellphone and you can decide to go on a trip immediately or go to your Hotel;
. visit our office and parking lot;
. visit little cities and farms, places that you will find cheap and good cars;
Tip: If the car is far from the city of Sao Paulo, the cars have little rust (in these places it never rains) and may never have received a car crash. You will see good options that we will include in our visit map.
You will personally negotiate the price of the cars and maybe get a discount, this will compensate you for your time and money spent on this trip
You can read in our webpage about "Hunting VW Bus T1 Tourism" and about one of ours restore man "VW Mechanical Engineer retired" Engr. Dorival R. Moraes
Sugarcane juice, a tradition in Brazil
receiving the car at home
All delivery responsibility is guaranteed by the freight company
You can receive the cars at your home or you can hire all services:
The cargo and freight company can do delivery in your home, the name of this system is DDP. This is the most expensive way to receive a car, the reason is: all companies involved in this delivery will have their prices increased, this is the price that you will pay to don't have any work.
The most economical way to receive your cars is:
. we hire the shipping company to make the delivery of the car at the port that you choose and you pay to them;
. you hire a Custom Broker, to show the documents to the customs and pay taxes.
Search on the internet like this example: "custom broker Genoa Port"
(use the name of the port closest to your city)
. you hire a recovery truck to pick up the car in the Port and bring to your home, the Custom Broker will offer this service for you.
If you want we can prepare both budgets, tell me which port is closest to you.
explanation: "Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) - all of the responsibility, risk, and costs associated with transporting goods until..."
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DMV Brazil
DMV - Inspection
To receive new documents, necessary for the export, the car must do the Car Inspection;
Another inspection is necessary a few days before the car goes to the Port of Santos and boards the ship.
Services:
We will personally check the car, you will receive our report, like the one on the side and also photos, films, plastic filler report, car owner's audio "translated" and report from the Transit Institute; an example you can see by clicking below.
We will buy the car, if you want, and prepare the documents for export;
Delivered at the port of your choice or in your home.
DMV - Exported car documents
after the ship leaves the Port of Santos/Brazil
this is one of the last stages of our service ask DMV Brazil to remove the car from the active system
for some countries, such as the Netherlands, this document has already been required.
Photo at DMV (DETRAN local name) Brazil/State of Sao Paulo
Shipping cost for 2 cars: 40' container
Shipping cost for 1 car: 20' container
Map showing where the VW Bus T1 are hidden in Brazil
Where are the VW Bus T1 hidden in Brazil
Decades ago, coffee producing farms used Bus T1 to bring people to harvest coffee and took those people back to the city at the end of the day.
Today the way of harvesting coffee has changed, but in those cities, when the cars got old, they were sold to small farms.
This is the old map of Brazil, showing the cities where these large coffee farms were decades ago.
This is where the VW Bus T1 is.
You can read in our webpage about "Hunting VW Bus T1 Tourism"
Any questions send me an email.
I have a team working to serve you!
Raquel Rosmaninho
export team leader
