Quote Originally Posted by kid_dynamite View Post
First off, you can only bring in one car per 12 months under the personal import rule. But you can bring in any car, no restrictions - so long as you can meet the state registration requirements.

That link I posted above, click on that and look up the section on Personal Imports. It lists all the documentation you need. Briefly the process is:
- you are overseas, purchase car
- keep all documentation as listed in the DOTARS weblink
- after minimum 12 months owning it, download the application for import approval and send to DOTARS with $50 application fee
- they will get back to you in about 28 days, hopefully yes
- once you get approval, put car on a boat for Australia
- once car is on it's way arrange with a 'customs broker' in Australia to clear Customs / Quarantine and pay all associated fees
- Call up state reigstration authority and they will either require some sort of roadworthiness check
- They will then direct you to someone to get a 'personal import plate' fitted to your engine bay (to state the car is a personal import)
- Then you just register the car as per usual.
for private imports due to residency. i remember that you needed to show parking permit for the car (assuming the car was coming from japan) and also employment contract for the country that the car was being imported to