I’ve always wondered.
I see camper vans all the time with plates from the EU.
How did they get that thing here?
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Is there a bridge I’m not aware of? 
On that note - in the 70s and 80s a US couple used to spend the summers in our village. Their VW Beetle with NY plates stayed put over here all these years and that way avoided swedish inspection. I don’t recall ever seeing US plates on the road ever since. Ferry trip with a vehicle across the pond probably cost s fortune.
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With your and Kristijan working skills yall could come over a day or two early and have something built to drive 
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Just drive your truck 
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I think with a 5000 dollar budget they could definitely do it .
Just long enough to get a 30 day tag and sell it off.
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You had 1 too many zero’s You have to make it a bit of a challenge.
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I’m accounting for the insane used truck prices 
Clunkers are going up in price and I’m seething over it.
I expected the gas hogs to get sold left and right and I’d be swimming in V8 Sedans by now.
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I figured they could just run one of those ‘buying scrap cars and trucks’ and ‘pickup used metal for free’ ads on craigslist or marketplace. I don’t ever recall ‘road legal’ ever being mentioned. 
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You’re actually not far off the mark for NC standards. If you get it tagged all you need is insurance and pay property tax on it.
At least until next year if it’s under 30 years old and then it needs inspection.
Buy it with a title, tag it and you’re golden for the year.
then they can trade and that buys them another year.
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Bonus if you get anything over 30 years, no inspections ever again. Just keep up insurance and yearly tag tax.
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Or if you live in Washington State USA, and some other States no inspections at all.
Bob
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I am pretty sure the guy in the truck videos is from Argos Indiana .
He probably is not aware that we have a wood gas get together in his home town .
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Well thanks guys. Now l cant get this out of my head
Cody, 5 grand??? For cheapskates like us? I dont think l spent that much for woodgas related stuff so far, wehicles included
I think with help from you guys over the pond, we culd pull this off. If someone wuld be willing to lend us some basic tools, angle grinder, mig welder, drill, maybee plasma… not much more. Maybee a bit of roof… Tone is more equipt but me and JO are used to this kind of working conditions and lm not sure of Goran.
Then someone willing to pick up and, simplest, register the vehicle on their name, wuld be simplest.
I wuld probably choose a old Sedan. Since your authoritys arent too picky to whats been messed with the vehicle, l think if we got a whole trunk space to work on we can make a something epic. A real interstate highway traveling machine
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He actually has an address in Argos. Should have asked him to show up. He could wood gas that truck and we would have the answer for all the threads for woodgas powered boats.
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Another engine i wood REALLY like to see woodgas in, this one would be a great illustration of how the flame front reacts across the piston. Only downside would be if the compression ratio of 8.7/1 would show the fuel burn differently then a high compression. Skip to around 13 minutes to see it running
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Re: cylinder surface hardening.
It turns out the big manufacturers actually do that. They just use an induction heater to heat up about .020 in. Being so thin the surrounding iron cools it very quickly and quenches it.
Rindert
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how do you only heat .02" with induction heating? That would be interesting for like cutter blades.
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They do it by changing the frequency of the AC. Higher frequency => shallower penetration.
Rindert
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