I looked into this in detail when I bought the 92 300E from Tony earlier in the year.
In the case of Florida, they provide no means for purchasing a car out of state and having valid tags for it, unless you are a dealer. Pennsylvania offers temporary tags to the buyer at their expense, but if my memory serves me correctly, the price is pretty outrageous, like $90 (correct me if I am wrong, Tony.) I did what I have always done: Take the tags off another car I own, or tags from a car I sold if I was buying a replacement, proof of insurance and a signed bill of sale along with the fully executed title, and go. Sure, the law could probably give you fits if they wanted, but it's a calculated risk that is pretty small in my opinion. Dan Benz Hogs <benz-n-h...@gulseth.net> wrote: >A signed title and BoS isn't good enough anymore? Who are the numb >you-know-whats that elected these fools? > >Luther KB5QHU Forest Park, IL >'87 300SDL (322,xxx mi) >'91 Dodge Ram 150 (290,xxx mi) > >On 4/6/2012 1:54 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: >> Well, I'm home. My car, a 1992 Mercedes 300D is not... yet. It is a long >> story, for another time. (I should start a blog). Suffice to say, we do NOT >> live in the land of freedom anymore. Interstate commerce is extremely >> restricted, to the point where it is difficult, if not impossible, to >> purchase a vehicle in one state, and drive it home, legally, because of red >> tape and prohibitive laws. You can pay a shipper big money or you can use a >> trailer and tow it. You could use a dealer tag if you could get one (very >> expensive for a dealers license here). If you wanted to take the chance of >> losing the car to an impound, you could put a plate on it from another car. >> I was not going to take that chance. In the state of Indiana the BMV will >> not issue a temp tag for transport from another state to Indiana and in the >> state of Maryland the BMV will not issue a temp tag for transport of a >> vehicle purchased there to another state. Quite a catch 22. Back to square >> one, with a much lighter wallet. >> >> Rick >> Sent from my iPhone. >> > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
