Suzuki Club UK

I recently got this from ebay, Its the first 'sticker' I've seen to advertise SJ's so I had to buy it, I had a good chat to the vendor and he was a nice bloke. He told me the sticker originated from Hermans in Deventer, Holland, Where he used to go buy sj413's and bring them back for retail in the uk:-

He sid (in an email to me) I used to be one of the naughty boys that brought Soft Top 413 QX / QJX's in from Holland back in the day. Machon Bank Motor Company in Sheffield and Glen Garage in York, (the latter are still Suzuki dealers), had a few off us. Unfortunately we also brought in a few other cars from South Africa via Spain which offended the Authorities big style, (trade with South Africa was banned at the time), and I was forced into respectability after that. I do have a couple of large size 1988 Dutch SJ413 brochures listed though. My ex-wife had a Silver 413 Soft Top with some very dodgy stick on Spanish graphics which originally came Right Hand Drive from Hermans in Holland, but I have never owned an SJ myself, but they were great vehicles and the real deal off-road.


Which I thought was brilliant, he also said There was a lot of importing of SJ413 soft tops from Italy as well, but the Dutch were the biggest between 1985-87, I've neever seen an italian (or dutch) SJ here in the uk although I know there must be a few about, I guess it would be hard to tell now because a lot of the 85 -87 SJ's have had the graphics removed, although if you do have a 413 from 85 -87 it's probably going to be an import because suzuki didn't bring the UK 413 till around 87.

Luke

Cool, that's pretty funny, the company my dad used to work for used to import sjs as well but to avoid certain taxes they used to send over a commercial soft top, get them to take the back seats out and swap the soft tops over and get the soft top with windows and rear seats shipped over separately so that the sj came in as a commercial vehicle, swap the hoods back over, fit the seats and then send the soft tops back out for for the next batch of sjs why isn't it that easy to import vehicles nowadays

I know someone who imports Nissan Figaros... interesting cars they are!!!

Those fagaros are so darn ugly

^ x2

do they do the sticker with a 410 do you know?

chrisj410 wrote:do they do the sticker with a 410 do you know?

I've not seen one with a 410, I'm sure if you talked nicely to some one with photo shop they could photo shop one in

I'v got a 86 413. Is there any way of telling if it has been imported?

There is a near perfect example of a imported sj on the bay at the moment http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-Suzuki-S ... 35b6fe0f12" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;