another day another seizure of smuggled black market cars this time not in florida but in california that story is coming up right after the break confession i hate cleaning my own cars that's why i love adam's polishes whatever you want to clean polish shine adams has a specific product just for that even for matte finishes since NUMBER_TOKEN adams polishes has been offering premium car care products dedicated to the enthusiast whether you're a professional detailer or a weekend warrior their innovative and effective products will enable you to achieve amazing results on your prized possession atoms made with pride and passion in the usa so a story surfaced last week out of a place called woodland california which is up near sacramento about NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN miles north of me there was a link in the store going to a place called apple towing likely just a regular towing company who happens to have a government approved vendor status so they weren't part of it but midori's park shop posted photos and a short summary of what we were seeing in the picture and what was confiscated cars that we saw in the picture the seized cars included sylvia's rNUMBER_TOKENs a stagia a couple of chasers arrestos and a jdm accord euro r among others by my calculation close to a million dollars in cars and street value it's weird to say street failure about cars right the pictures show cars with their power trains removed and placed on a pallet just as they would be transported in containers for those companies who were illegally importing these things as car parts here's a gtr shell oh here oh the mortar happens to be on the pallet right in front of it nothing shady nothing to see here anyway they probably didn't pack the thing right in an x-ray caught the attention of customs and border patrol so here we are once they open the containers and take a look at the paperwork they realize they had something there an investigation ensued and then the whole thing blew up here's a list of the now blacklisted bins if you ever choose to buy one of these models of cars you might want to check that vin against this list because if your van is on this list this car cannot go back to the united states it's now it won't they won't look back in even after the NUMBER_TOKEN rule so don't buy these cars those cars going back overseas now these cars are probably confiscated a long time ago but they were recently put up for auction by the feds and before you start rambling about how are the feds able to sell illegal cars let me clear that up these cars were sold for export only to non-contiguous countries for those who didn't take geography in school or english or maybe you were just sick that day the word non-contiguous means not connected to okay in plain english what that means is these cars cannot just be exported to canada or mexico they have to leave the north american continent that means that the winning bidder will have to sell these cars to other countries like japan france germany spain or wherever but not here in north america the final bid reached NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN which is a pretty good deal for NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN in cars right but not if they have to be shipped far away from the usa and they can never
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN confession i hate cleaning my own cars that's why i love adam's polishes whatever you want to clean polish shine adams has a specific product just for that even for matte finishes since NUMBER_TOKEN adams polishes has been offering premium car care products dedicated to the enthusiast whether you're a professional detailer or a weekend warrior their innovative and effective products will enable you to achieve amazing results on your prized possession atoms made with pride and passion in the usa END_SPONSOR_TOKEN