Thank you all for the answers!
It seems that I'm going to try another country as my starting point. Now I'm looking in Bulgaria or Italy... Feck....
Ehh... The bureaucracy, takes all the fun from the citizens...
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Thank you all for the answers!
It seems that I'm going to try another country as my starting point. Now I'm looking in Bulgaria or Italy... Feck....
Ehh... The bureaucracy, takes all the fun from the citizens...
Sorry for double/tripple posting.
The reason why I started my research into this:
https://www.car.gr/12319572-toyota-corolla
If it actually looks like that and drives - I want it! That would be a perfect weekend car to hold on to.
But I also found:
https://www.car.gr/classifieds/cars/photos/10791866/#4
https://www.car.gr/12806981-opel-rekord
https://www.car.gr/classifieds/cars/photos/12647020/#6
https://www.car.gr/12301804-toyota-corolla-30
https://www.car.gr/12566531-toyota-corolla
All of these cars and models are super rare or not existand in my area.
Hi,
sad to hear this. I'm just starting to plan the trip. It does not have to be cheap (less than 1k eur), more like rare in my country. I saw sam older models from seventies like an RWD corolla and similar that caught my eye. Those do not exist near me as we have harsh winters with a tons of salt on the roads which in turn means that a lot of cars do rust away. This trip would be an interesting opportunity to bring something like that back home. Plus the thrill of driving an unknown car across the europe.
Renting in this case is not an option as we do plan to get there and do a drive around the countries for 2 weeks. I hoped that if it would work - we would get a cheap flight to Athens, spend few days there to do some seesighting. And September is already the end of tourist season - cheaper. I'm not coming from a country which ir richer than Greece so prices are a consideration So spend some time in Athens, buy a car with all of the export papers and then start slowly driving back home spending a few days here, few days there and making our way up the Adriatic sea coast line and then go north back home.
But now this plan starts to fade out.
Maybe someone has a phone number or web page for something like a DMV where I could call and ask if I have to jump all the hoops if I want to export the car outside of the country?
P.S. Thank you for the input, it was not cheering, but helpful!
Hi,
sad to hear this. I'm just starting to plan the trip. It does not have to be cheap (less than 1k eur), more like rare in my country. I saw sam older models from seventies like an RWD corolla and similar that caught my eye. Those do not exist near me as we have harsh winters with a tons of salt on the roads which in turn means that a lot of cars do rust away. This trip would be an interesting opportunity to bring something like that back home. Plus the thrill of driving an unknown car across the europe.
Renting in this case is not an option as we do plan to get there and do a drive around the countries for 2 weeks. I hoped that if it would work - we would get a cheap flight to Athens, spend few days there to do some seesighting. And September is already the end of tourist season - cheaper. I'm not coming from a country which ir richer than Greece so prices are a consideration So spend some time in Athens, buy a car with all of the export papers and then start slowly driving back home spending a few days here, few days there and making our way up the Adriatic sea coast line and then go north back home.
But now this plan starts to fade out.
Maybe someone has a phone number or web page for something like a DMV where I could call and ask if I have to jump all the hoops if I want to export the car outside of the country?
P.S. Thank you for the input, it was not cheering, but helpful!
Hello!
I'm from small far away country - Latvia. I'm planing to travel to south with my girlfriend on September and I'm playing around an idea that I could fly with her to Greece, buy a car there and then road trip it back home. I know - that is fucked up idea, but otherwise I'll have to drive to Greece and back which would come up to 7000km which is much worse - not much of a vacation for us if we have to drive all the time.
So - what, where and how greeks buy their cars?
I want something classic (I like older cars, and my girlfriend also likes them). I would say date of manufacture before 1990, coupe, RWD. Something like BMW 3 series, mercedes or fomething similar (ahh the utopia). As I'm not a fancy american/swiss and I do not have a cash falling out of my pockets, then I'm looking for interesting and cheap deals. For example: 1985 audi 80 with LPG for 700 eur - I'm sold. It is a solid car and I can survive without a coupe. On the other hand - I could squeeze all the juice and borrow money to grab a Toyota Supra MKIII with minimal rust for less than 4k EUR. But that is my sky high price range.
To make it understandable - either it is a cheap LPG car or something interesting which could have less rust than the ones that I can get in my area.
At the same time I have promised myself to buy only RWD cars, but this could be an exception. I found some Alfa Romeo 75 for 1200 euro that would be a perfect car, but I cannot fly to Greece now to buy it and store it for the september
Please add info on what are the laws in your country for road worthiness of the cars.
Best regards - Peter, the crazy latvian!!!!!
Hello!
I'm from small far away country - Latvia. I'm planing to travel to south with my girlfriend on September and I'm playing around an idea that I could fly with her to Greece, buy a car there and then road trip it back home. I know - that is fucked up idea, but otherwise I'll have to drive to Greece and back which would come up to 7000km which is much worse - not much of a vacation for us if we have to drive all the time.
So - what, where and how greeks buy their cars?
I want something classic (I like older cars, and my girlfriend also likes them). I would say date of manufacture before 1990, coupe, RWD. Something like BMW 3 series, mercedes or fomething similar (ahh the utopia). As I'm not a fancy american/swiss and I do not have a cash falling out of my pockets, then I'm looking for interesting and cheap deals. For example: 1985 audi 80 with LPG for 700 eur - I'm sold. It is a solid car and I can survive without a coupe. On the other hand - I could squeeze all the juice and borrow money to grab a Toyota Supra MKIII with minimal rust for less than 4k EUR. But that is my sky high price range.
To make it understandable - either it is a cheap LPG car or something interesting which could have less rust than the ones that I can get in my area.
At the same time I have promised myself to buy only RWD cars, but this could be an exception. I found some Alfa Romeo 75 for 1200 euro that would be a perfect car, but I cannot fly to Greece now to buy it and store it for the september
Please add info on what are the laws in your country for road worthiness of the cars.
Best regards - Peter, the crazy latvian!!!!!