The only real down side is that over time they will loose the context of their natural environment and be diminished in their whole meaning. Much as a stuffed Duck Billed Platypus tells you far less than seeing a live one in a zoo where efforts have been made to match their natural environment. We are back to value being different to worth.
I have a chum looking to shift some stuff to the USA and vice versa. Will notify him of option.
I haven't moth balled or stuffed either of my Nobels, or my AC Petite. Quite to the contrary I have brought back from the dead these cars that your countrymen have not seen fit to restore. In the case of the AC- I have definitely saved it by having an entire floor and some frame members accurately fabricated where as I have been advised by some in your country that throwing in a plywood floor was forgivable. I am currently working on re fabricating its transmission case. Incidentally none of the above was bought by myself from outside of North America. That goes for my Scootacar, and Frisky Sport also.
If I have decided to round out my collection with an FF3 and 4 wheeler Nobel, I believe that I have certainly earned that right by now. And who am I talking
to here? Your country men have patriated/ repatriated far more rust free cars from just my native state of California than will ever be exported from your entire country to the US. And in the case of someone who admits to prior exportation of micros for profit vs personal appreciation- I think we have the kettle calling the pot black. Besides, Bob- it was you who pointed out to me, that my neighbors export model Frisky Sport was recently bought and exported by an Englishman. Fair is fair
As far as maintaining natural environs goes- since the bodies of the cars that I am exporting are of fiberglass, you don't have to worry that anybody would be able to tell that they are not naturally rusting as they would in their homeland.
Speaking of Duck billed Platypusses- I am on the lookout for a Zeta Sports, and I am wiling to assist should anyone need help exporting a car from California. Big Al- your assistance is greatly appreciated as I have but an average income, and this is for me an expensive but very worthwhile passion.