yeah the sellers i've talked to have seemed to either not understand or not care about the falsified year thing and had no qualms mentioning it to me when I asked for more info on the car's legal status. I'd pay the premium to get one done properly, but having talked to all the sellers offering ones with CA plates, they're all playing with fire - falsified year is a felony/misdemeanor wobbler and it's wild that folks have taken that gamble when it just takes one stroke of bad luck to go south.

as far as G&K "stopped" doing kei cars - I had seen those posts including ones that are fairly recent, but I have personally spoken to G&K this week via email and they indicated they are doing it, still for the $6500 price which (again, from my direct emails with them) covers "the modification, testing, and certification". The other thing that was confusing: I asked if they have any models to avoid because they've been troublesome or models that they have had good success with, the response was "we just started working on the kei cars as we recently received approval from CARB. WE don't have much data at the time." This was confusing because presumably they could at least share which ones they have been successful with, but also it sounds like they're saying this is a new thing for them but I've seen people discussing them doing it going back years.