TobyCoulson
Hi Toby and thanks for the welcome. I'used to read patrick o'brian, bernard cornwell and other writers, and i love pubs, beers and RAF museums... so i'm sort of british at heart

Bom dia Adaraujo!
Thanks for the advice, buy a caterham in uk wuold be the best, but ther importing procedures seems to be a little "unsure"... the italian bureaucracy it's impredictable.
I must study the thing.
P.S. I love Portugal and the Azores islands (love the 9 of them). The Douro Valley is really wonderful, and la quinta do Vesuvio it's a dream on the banks of river!!

Yes it is... Thank you. An international meeting is coming up in May 2015.

I am planning to visit Italy next year.

adaraujo
Thanks, hope i'll join the ranks in time for the meeting in the Douro.
if you need any sort of advice planning your trip in Italy i'll be glad to help you.

I hope it's easier to import and more importantly, road register a Seven in Italy than it is here in France.

For most Caterhams from the UK, the only way to plate them here is via a very long and tedious procedure called 'Passage par Titre Isolé', which is slightly similar to the SVA procedure in the UK, only much slower, more expensive, and uncertain to result in a 'pass'.

Hal
import caterhams in italy it's hard job, Schematic picture: you must collect a several documents requested from the civil motor authority. and some of those documents doesn't exist in UK!
so you must find a mechanical engineer who writes a technical report on the car!! and after you collect aaaallll the papers you must let them translated by an official translator in the italian embassy!!
and after a loooong trip to italy (full of dreams and doubts) you have to pray and hope all the documents are accepted by an italian bureaucrat!! and i stop here...