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Originally posted by SS_CarGuy:
It looks like there were quite a few Camaro's there besides the 4th gens. Do you know how many?

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• Total number of cars in the country: 297
• Number of 1999 model year cars: 40
• Average age of male owners: 42
• Average age of female owners: 46
• Number of male owners: 184
• Number of female owners: 57
• Number of cars owned by companies: 56

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Originally posted by BobsSS:
Nice pics. Why is it that some of them have the export lighting and some do not? Are the ones without the export lighting legal?

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Yes, they are legal. I suppose that the simplest way to explain it is that there are different sets of rules based on how the car entered the country. Hurray for bureaucracy

If the car was originally sold in Europe it has to have fog lights in the rear bumper, positioning lights (or whatever they're called) on the fenders and folding rear view mirrors to make it legal. If the car was originally sold in Sweden it has to have headlight cleaners as well. The way that the lights work also differs from US spec cars. For example, you have to have the low beams on all the time here in Sweden, it's required by law. Therefore they automatically turn on when you start the car. The orange positioning lights in the nose has to be white, it's illegal to have orange lights in the front, and they must be off when the headlight are on and vice versa.

If you import a US car you have to drill holes for the lights in the fenders and rewire the lights in the front so that they work the way I just briefly tried to explain. You don't have to replace the mirrors with folding ones or put foglights in the rear.

If you've lived in the US and has owned the car for over twelve months you can take it with you back to Sweden as personal property. Then you don't have to do anything with the car except to change the orange lights in the front.

I guess this post is a bit confusing. It's hard to try and explain all the weird rules and regulations we have to live by over here

In the beginning of this year the authorities tried to ban private import of cars all togheter but they had to lift that ban. To put it mildly, the **** hit the fan