1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R Vspec Early - also known as Midnight Purple II - US legal under Show or Display |
Life is complicated. Laws, rules, regulations are all complicated. To make the Show or Display regulation on Midnight Purple Nissan Skyline GT-R black and white here is what is legal:
US legal under Show or Display - Midnight Purple II |
1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R Vspec - Early - Midnight Purple II - LV4 - 282 Vspec cars produced . Legal to import to the US under the Show or Display regulations
Here is what is not legal or illegal to import until its 25 years old:
Not legal in the US until 25 years old : illegal |
1999- 2000 Nissan Skyline GT-R - Midnight Purple III - 199 total cars produced. Illegal in the US. Undocumented, aka not legal. The NHTSA does not see the two cars as the same car. There is no blanket approval, so until this car is over 25 years old it is not legal. Now it would also be possible to either bring the car into compliance, or file a Show or Display petition, but as of June 2023, neither of those petitions exist.
So why the II, and not the III? There were less III than II made.
It all gets down to the Show or Display approval process. In order for a vehicle to be legal under the Show or Display regulations, you have to submit a petition to the NHTSA to request permission for a specific car type, and then a specific car to be legally imported.
If the NHTSA approves the type, then you get the specific car permission, you are allowed to import the vehicle, legally.