Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
5/28/21 11:03 a.m.
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Can’t ship your rare Subaru from Japan back into the U.S.? Easy, just completely disassemble the car, box up every single part, ship said parts home and then rebuild the car from the ground up with the help of a donor car.

That’s exactly what one person did when he realized he couldn’t import his one-of-500 Subaru STI Limited Wagon …

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malibuguy
malibuguy GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
5/28/21 4:44 p.m.

I either worked on that or its identical twin here in MD about 4 years ago.  Small exhaust repair.

irish44j (Forum Supporter)
irish44j (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
5/28/21 7:50 p.m.

Looks like he did what a hundred other Impreza guys who swap STi drivetrains in have done to make an RSTi, except with the added annoyance of being RHD on LHD roads. 

Looking at the current bid, sounds like he's going to lose a lot of money on the whole deal unless the bids rise dramatically.  Shipping all that stuff over couldn't have been cheap (unless he was shady and had it shipped with his military PCS/home goods shipment). 

I was hoping he had figured out a way to get a Levorg STi wagon over here....

irish44j (Forum Supporter)
irish44j (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
5/28/21 7:55 p.m.
malibuguy said:

I either worked on that or its identical twin here in MD about 4 years ago.  Small exhaust repair.

It's a local car in the DC/MD area. I've seen it before (I used to hang out in the Subaru world when I had my WRX), but assumed it was just a usual WRX-swapped impreza wagon. Didn't notice at the time it had RHD conversion. 

noddaz
noddaz GRM+ Memberand UberDork
5/29/21 10:52 a.m.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

malibuguy
malibuguy GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
5/29/21 6:37 p.m.

In reply to irish44j (Forum Supporter) :

found the pic I took of it

ShawnG
ShawnG UltimaDork
5/29/21 6:41 p.m.

Ok Radar...

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