Thursday auction of 315 cars cancelled

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Thursday auction of 315 cars cancelled

By Thai PBS Reporters

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Customs Department has decided to call off a public auction of 315 cars and motorcycles scheduled on Thursday after the Land Transport Department sent an urgent notification to the former informing that most of the vehicles cannot be legally registered.

 

All the vehicles to be auctioned off were impounded by the Customs Department after it was discovered that they were not properly imported into the country or their prices were under-declared to avoid taxation.

 

According to the notification of the Land Transport Department, only four of the 315 vehicles could be registered, including two Toyota, one Honda and one Nissan.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/thursday-auction-315-cars-cancelled/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-06-29

[ezzra]

Now this is a pickle no one thought about it, in their rush and zeal to

convert these pile of metals into cash no one looked at the legal aspect

of it, but I'm sure, as today is Thursday, that a quick solution will be found

and the auction will happened soon... there's gold in them thar cars...

[jackinthebox]

Stupid  Land Transport Department! Why did you announce in the first place? Let the auction take place, wait for 5 months and....ooops, the registration was not legal. Confiscation again (either through customs department, tax authority,  Land transport department, Section 44, royal thai police or the big general personally) aaaaaand- Bingo! CashCow for long time....

[colinneil]

 

We will show them, importing  fancy cars, and trying to cheat us. Not going to happen.

Quick sell them off, show them we mean business.

Oops we have dropped a giant <deleted> this time, no problem just cancel the auction.

Now Somchai how you gonna fix this <deleted> up?

 

 

 

We will

[leeneeds]

Duty calls , no loss of face here,

[fruitman]

So the government almost was selling stolen supercars?? 

[clockman]

Pure Thainess. Speak before engaging brain!

[wakeupplease]

Sell b4 the court case only can this happen in LOL

[whatawonderfulday]

Since when has a legality deterred government departments ?

[YetAnother]

so what becomes of the cars now ?

[impulse]

6 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

so what becomes of the cars now ?

 

Millions of baht in annual storage fees for the next 20 years.  By then, they'll be too degraded to benefit anyone.  Every once in a while, we read about goodies stuck in limbo.  Fire trucks come to mind immediately.  The "Malaysian" buses haven't been around long enough yet to ring the bell.  But we'll probably be reading about them in another 10-20 years.  Probably when it's time to develop the land they're sitting on...

[worgeordie]

So only the 4 cheap cars were semi legal,wonder if any were stolen

from the UK.

regards worgeordie

[Cadbury]

11 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

so what becomes of the cars now ?

They go to inactive garages. Only select and connected people have keys.

[Lupatria]

Another reason could've been many of those invited refused to participate in the auction as they are currently too busy on inactive posts.

[Tilacme]

BP has published a more detailed report which includes a quote that, "most cars were assembled from assorted parts".  I would like to see a 2015 Ferrari California or 2013 Aston Martin DB9 assembled in Thailand using assorted parts.  The give away would be the tak tak engine strapped to the front.

There is also a quote that "the burden will fall on the buyers" - arrested as soon as the hammer drops then.

 

 

[lvr181]

6 hours ago, colinneil said:

 

We will show them, importing  fancy cars, and trying to cheat us. Not going to happen.

Quick sell them off, show them we mean business.

Oops we have dropped a giant <deleted> this time, no problem just cancel the auction.

Now Somchai how you gonna fix this <deleted> up?

 

 

 

We will

SNAFU? 

[Stargeezr]

It is just that the government officials did not get first pick yet.

  The auction will take place right after that,   and proper registration papers

are all worked out.

Geezer

[JAG]

I am sure that they will find a home for them - once the Land Transport Departments urgent concerns have been laid to rest...

[fruitman]

22 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Millions of baht in annual storage fees for the next 20 years.  By then, they'll be too degraded to benefit anyone.  Every once in a while, we read about goodies stuck in limbo.  Fire trucks come to mind immediately.  The "Malaysian" buses haven't been around long enough yet to ring the bell.  But we'll probably be reading about them in another 10-20 years.  Probably when it's time to develop the land they're sitting on...

Nope this time they 'll do it different.

 

They'll be used to promote BKK as an artform. Every lambo or porsche will be parked on the concrete piles along Nawamin road, there are hundreds of unused piles from another abandoned project.

 

It will be a new tourist attraction, the road with 300 supercars parked on piles.

[impulse]

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

Nope this time they 'll do it different.

 

They'll be used to promote BKK as an artform. Every lambo or porsche will be parked on the concrete piles along Nawamin road, there are hundreds of unused piles from another abandoned project.

 

It will be a new tourist attraction, the road with 300 supercars parked on piles.

 

Maybe a BKK version of Amarillo's Cadillac Ranch?

 

Edited June 30, 2017 by impulse