Likewise. Hope eBay or their insurer plays ball.
Regarding import. I'm not familiar with the US system, but I think DOT stands for "Department of Transport". If it's anything like Australia, it's a nightmare. Here, your options are:
1. Low volume imports for sale. The Vectrix was brought in that way. You need to supply up to 6 units (Free of charge), to the government for testing, and you're only entitled to the wrecks, if that. If you pass testing, you can sell them like any other car or bike in Australia.
2. Special interest/personal import. Basically, you can buy it, get an engineer to check it meets about a hundred rules, most of which make sense (No sharp edges, two brakes, no white lights at the back, no red lights at the front, under 90dB noise, etc.) and once it's registered, that one is like any other bike, but you can't import any more for sale. Costs anything from $1-3k, depending on how custom the bike is. Same kind of process if you decided to build the bike from scratch yourself.
3. Modify an existing bike - including variants. So if it was built on a well known bike, but electrified (So if you can get an attestation that one of those is actually a Kawasaki Ninja 250R with the internals replaced - usually the chassis number is recognised by the OEM), you can just do a shorter safety check, and a couple hundred bucks and you're away. It's just listed as a standard bike in the system, and you have to carry a slip of paper noting the approved modifications for any cop that asks.
I looked at the three, and even though it would cost me double to modify an existing petrol bike, than to do a special interest import, I decided it would be so much easier, every time I get pulled over, every time I need to do my annual road worthy, and when I sell it (if ever), to have a bike treated as a modified mainstream bike than a unique one.
