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Back in the mid 70's, in well practised carnet years, travelling to the Monaco GP we landed in France and found the March truck being thoroughly searched. The driver said he had been there for 2 days and the Customs people had opened and emptied every storage cupboard in the vehicle.
On the way back, after a stop off for testing at Dijon, I discovered the Williams team truck having a little difficulty returning to Blighty. Something to do with Carnets for engines that had not taken out for the event but the carnets had been taken and processed. So French Customs were asking to see the engines.
Absent the appearance of the engines the Douane assumed they had been sold and demanded duties be paid. Or so the story went.
All part of the game at the time and of course people were somewhat prepared for it.
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