79cord
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Sept 16, 2017 7:25:03 GMT
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This article was just in a local club newsletter & thought it worth sharing as another example of bureaucratic rules & their varied interpretations causing problems at classic owners expense when bringing their cars into the country, even affecting cars previously here that were taken overseas for international events. With far more than the logical brake & clutch friction surfaces being very thoroughly, expensively & destructively examined, which makes for worrying reading.. Currently terrifying transporters, who are begging for clarification & possible revision of requirements. Australia, Asbestos and Collector Cars |
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Last Edit: Sept 16, 2017 7:45:54 GMT by 79cord
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Sept 16, 2017 11:50:43 GMT
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Even more scarey for anybody who has bought an Aussie export is the proposal for high profile operations to snatch them back as part of the countries heritage.
More appropriate for racers that have gone to NZ than the UK but even so...
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Sept 16, 2017 16:21:57 GMT
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Sh1t that's me done for then. My latest business venture was exporting cars to Australia!!
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piguin
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Sept 16, 2017 17:03:44 GMT
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Ouch...
That is troubling, and not only for Australian imports / exports. Governments around the world seem to have a tendency to adopt the worst and least thought out procedures...
Somehow I can already picture cars being seized to return to Australia, only to be dismantled and kept indefinitely in storage for Asbestos removal - since we are talking for pre '99 cars - with the costs mounting...
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Sept 16, 2017 18:23:54 GMT
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My dear old uncle out in Oz had a dealing with asbestos, the outcome of which would probably mean no one in their right mind would want to go near the stuff or have any dealings with it whatsoever. I wonder if that has any bearing on this?
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Sept 16, 2017 20:46:19 GMT
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The sampling process makes no sense and any decent company would know this, regardless of there being no content in the majority of the car, it is unlikley to deteriorate and become porous (apart from the brake shoes which probably have asbestos content).
8 hours for 5 blokes to survey a car, what a group of fannies
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fogey
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Sept 16, 2017 21:51:31 GMT
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I had a second look at that to check if it was dated 1st April - sadly it wasn't . . . .
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Sept 16, 2017 22:08:21 GMT
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''Australia is the world's leading producer of rutile, zircon, bauxite, iron ore and ilmenite, the second largest producer of alumina, gold, lithium, manganese ore, lead and zinc, the third largest producer of uranium, and the fourth largest of silver, nickel and black coal.''
And they are concerned about importation of classic cars...it's almost laughable if it wasn't so pathetic. The world is gone mad!
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Last Edit: Sept 16, 2017 22:09:27 GMT by Woofwoof
Still learning...still spending...still breaking things!
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