Re: [Chrysler300] 300 - Canada to US

["Carlton Schroeder" <schroe99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

In September 2005 I bought Fern Rivard's 300H and hauled it from British
Columbia across Canada and entered the US at International Falls, Minnesota.

Fern had misplaced the title so all I had was a bill of sale.  The H still
had Idaho plates that were 20+ years old.  No one stopped me in Canada and
the border crossing was simple - it took about 20 minutes (at 10 pm).  There
were no $ charges and two forms were filled out with copies given to me.
The guard looked the car over and checked the Vin # against the
bill-of-sale.  He did comment to my wife "must be a sentimental thing with
your husband", so I guess it is all in the eye of the beholder.

Carlton.


----- Original Message -----
From: <hmpirish@xxxxxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: [Chrysler300] 300 - Canada to US


> Greetings Beautiful Brute Brothers and Sisters,
>     What you need to know to bring an "antique" car (25 years or older)
into
> the US.  Not all Canadian Provincial Govts use titles. Alberta, where I
got
> mine, uses a Bill of Sale and an endorsement on the reverse of the
registration,
> to transfer ownership.  AB also assigns plates to individuals, so when you
> pick up the car, the plates will be removed.  You purchase an In Transit
paper
> registration ($22 in Alberta), which lists your starting point and where
you
> will cross into the US, to be displayed in the right front of the
windshield and
> go merrily on your way.  I could not get them to add my US destination as
> well since "it would have no force outside Canada".  I believe, since all
the
> states and provinces honor each others' registration, this would not be
the case
> but could not convince the bureaucratic mind set, on the other side of the
> counter, to do it.  Perhaps another individual might have.   I drove
across three
> provinces with no plate and no one seemed to care.                      At
> the US border you go in the office to fill out their paperwork (about 10
> minutes) and come away with their stamped form admitting the car.  So long
as the
> owner is with the car, and it is for personal use, no advance notice is
required.
>  Because of the age, the EPA and DOT rules do not apply - Thank Goodness -
> they are truely onerous !  You can not register the car in your home state
> without the customs paperwork so a valid plate for the vehicle prior to
getting it
> home, is not possible, but I was told the US paperwork admitting the car,
the
> In Transit registration, the bill of sale and signed registration were
> sufficient to proceed.  I don't doubt that that is correct, but with 6
states to
> cross, I did not want to test my luck going  plateless, so I put a current
plate
> from one of my other cars on, and continued.  Should I have ended up
having to
> show the registration to an officer of the law, I'd have gone through all
the
> other documantation first, and finally argued the principle purpose of a
plate
> is to identify an owner and his residence, which by using another of my
> plates, has been accomplished - no deception involved.  Fortunately the
trip was
> without incident and I never had to test all that out.
>             This is definately the least expensive way to do it.  Advance
> notice, customs brokers and shipping can add several thousand dollars to
the cost
> - I checked.         The prairie provences are like our states just south
of
> the border, and the attitude about speed limits is the same as well.  " 70
mph
> ?  Aw shucks,  that's not getting you there..."  Great fun in any 300 !!!
> The only down side of going that fast is the cost of fuel.  Gas runs about
a
> dollar more per gallon than in the US owing to the taxes - we need to be
thankful
> on that score. "I'll probably never do this again..." so I pressed the
> "dollar dispenser" pedal pretty hard and stayed with the fastest traffic.
"Good for
> the car, doing what it was designed to do... not working hard at
all...feels
> solid, feels GOOD...."    all run through you head !
>
>     All the Best 300ing,
>         Phil Irish
>
>
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