Guys,
I have a query, though not strictly to do with this particular thread - but
hopefully your replies
may set my mind at rest?
As many of you know, I'm doing a drive across the US and Canada next year for
charity in a '73 Stag
that Joe 'Stagmeister' Pawlak and his 40 friends at ISOA are currently busy
rebuilding. AFAIK, the
car is currently titled in Illinois and I guess it'll remain that way when the
event starts and
hopefully goes to its conclusion. My query is this - though it is now based on
the experiences of
Brit friends of mine who visited the US some years ago.
TITLE
I believe (though can't be sure) that the title will be in my name for the
purposes of the trip. As
a non-US resident, am I likely to run into any trouble on this technicality as
a whole, especially
as the car will be leaving and re-entering the US to and from Canada twice
during the trip with me
in it on both occasions. Am I likely to get 'stuffed' by some frontier official
who doesn't know the
rule book and finds him/herself in a "more than my job's worth" situation?
REGISTRATION
One of my friends entered one State in a loaned car and because it bore licence
plates of a
relatively distant State and he was using his British driving licence, it
seemed he had to
re-licence the car on the plates of that State before going any further.
Allegedly this caused
horrendous problems for the owner when the car eventually got back to its home
State.
LICENCE
All the paperwork I've read on websites for rubber-necking tourists like me,
indicates I can safely
drive a US licenced and US insured car on a British (read full European
licence) without further let
or hindrance. That's what worries me. Another friend (five years back) was in a
rental car he'd
picked up in Oregon and had driven to San Francisco to see the bridge and
streetcars. He maintains
he got stopped in a police spot-check and because the police chappie didn't
recognise his licence as
one issued in any US State, he was required to take a California state driving
test before going any
further.
Both the people referred to above are absolutely honest and I don't doubt what
they told me for one
instant. However, my trip is going to be keeping to some very tight schedules
and the last thing I
want is some gun-toting bloke appearing at my driving window and telling me I
can't proceed because
I've "infringed" some law I ought to know all about - but don't. I admit my
tolerance levels when
confronted with 'offialdom' is on a short fuse and recognising that a punch on
the nose is likely to
offend, it occurs to me that now would be a good time to garner the collective
thoughts of the list.
Replies off-list are probably better as my request doesn't have much to do with
assymetric scrunge
brackets being fitted in the driver's door of a TR (or not) during the 1975
build year.
In expectation
Jonmac
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