Importing Asbestos

[9er]

https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/australian-border-patrol-nabs-maseratis-111746/

Drilling firewalls is getting serious.

[Merv]

And this from Hagerty about Australia. https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2017/0...-to-australia/ Hemmings have a similar warning about Australia.

So we are world leaders. I still can't believe the costs associated with this stuff. A mania has developed about all types of asbestos and the type used on most old cars - crysotile - is the least problematic and is still used in some countries in brake pads/shoes.

I guess a problem for us with cars here, would be if/when other countries do the same as our Borderforce guys.

[Cairns888]

Has anyone got a nasty import invoice yet? I expect it would be quite expensive.

[9er]

I have a car about to be loaded in LA.
It has cost me about $900 for asbestos inspection/certification, I will let you know if it works out

[Merv]

Good idea Chris. Will be interesting.

[Cairns888]

I have a car about to be loaded in LA.
It has cost me about $900 for asbestos inspection/certification, I will let you know if it works out

Wow. I hope they don’t find anything. That’s a lot of money just for a negative result.

[oz772]

I have a car about to be loaded in LA.
It has cost me about $900 for asbestos inspection/certification, I will let you know if it works out

Did you use Dazmac Chris? Or someone else?

[Ed Holly]

Wrote this yesterday on The Nostalgia Forum ...

Today there was a radio interview about some Classic Maserati's that have been denied entry into Australia on a tour, including 2 of them were returning after having restoration work done overseas.



It is very much worth listening to the interview that runs for approx 4 minutes.and can be found at



http://www.abc.net.a...r-force/9579678



As a youngster my Dad had a taxi in Sydney. From a young age into my late teens I helped him service it and in the days of drum brakes on Holdens from FX to HR, although I was too young when the FX was around, it was my Saturday afternoon chore to pull the wheels off and blow all that dust out of the shoes and the drums. There were clouds of it and touch wood it has had no effect over the next 60 years.



Talking to brake specialists years ago their understanding of brake and clutch etc asbestos is that it is not like the stuff mined at Wittenoom - that stuff is very bad and I believe is the stuff used in Fibro and maybe ship lagging which took a mate of mine at a very young age when he worked at Garden Island.



It does affect us in Historic Racing - how many cars have we seen in the last 12 years competing from overseas - my guess is a couple of hundred - if this obstacle stays we will never get the pleasure of that again as overseas owners will be very wary of facing similar and as yet apparently unresolved problems that these Maserati owners do. And not to mention the apprehension of those organizing committees bringing the cars here.