[DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor

Pantdino pantdino at aol.com
Thu Feb 26 22:53:06 EST 2015


In California you pay a nominal "Planned non-operation" fee and you don't have to have insurance because you are not going to drive it on a public road.
 
When you want to drive it you have to prove you have insurance and pay more 
 
Jim Oddie
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
To: 'Julian Kift' <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; 'Kirby Schrader' <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>; 'De Tomaso List' <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 11:29 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor


Not all states require you to maintain insurance on a car that is off the
road. When I left for France in the late 90's, I put my Crown Victoria in
storage, cancelled the insurance, and didn't receive any snotty-grams from
anyone. Two years later I reactivated insurance for a month and donated it
to the Red Cross.... Don't remember if it was registered in NY or SD when I
cancelled insurance, but nobody questioned it. 

Out of curiosity, sounds weird that requirement. It isn't a law to have
insurance on your car if you don't use it. Let's say you are going to do a
Drew-restoration and take your car ot of service for 17 years... If your car
isn't road worthy, why do you have to have insurance? They can report you to
the DMV, but there isn't a law against it, is there? 

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Julian Kift
Sent: jueves, 26 de febrero de 2015 16:55
To: Kirby Schrader; De Tomaso List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor

I think many States (NV certainly does) require that the car be insured to
maintain registration/tags and there is an obligation for insurers to report
to DMV when cover is canceled. This effectively forces someone to maintain
the car registered at a US physical/mailing address on behalf of the visitor
or for the visitor to maintain a US address. The latter can be achieved via
one of the many PO box companies, many of which will forward mail overseas.
I used a service in Miami that would forward mail and small packages to
Colombia during my period there.
 
The above registration requirement for continuous insurance may make it
difficult to get a rider on his/her overseas policy just for periods he/she
is in the US and I would not rely on DMV accepting that for registration.
 
Obtaining a US drivers license used to be as simple as knowing a few words
of Spanish and taking the test, but the rules all changed post 9/11 and then
DMV would only renew my license at the time for the valid period of my work
visa. Then again maybe it was because I mentioned I wanted to learn to drive
HAZMAT commercial :), just kidding you can't get a CDL whilst on a visa, I
did try!
 
He/she could try one of these as a starting point;
 
https://d6371032-61c0-499f-9967-ca6e618cb017.insurancewebsitebuilder.com/aut
omobile/international_personnell_auto_insurance_quote.aspx
 
http://www.4autoinsurancequote.com/learning-center/car-insurance-for-non-us-
citizens/
 
Julian
 
> From: kirby.schrader at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:26:09 -0600
> To: DeTomaso at poca.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor
> 
> 
> Scenario:  
> 
> Owns a car in the US, but has no home here. 
> Has no US driver's license.
> 
> Wants to drive the car here in the US.
> 
> Where does he get insurance?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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   In California you pay a nominal "Planned non-operation" fee and you
   don't have to have insurance because you are not going to drive it on a
   public road.



   When you want to drive it you have to prove you have insurance and pay
   more



   Jim Oddie





   -----Original Message-----
   From: Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
   To: 'Julian Kift' <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; 'Kirby Schrader'
   <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>; 'De Tomaso List' <detomaso at poca.com>
   Sent: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 11:29 am
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor
Not all states require you to maintain insurance on a car that is off the
road. When I left for France in the late 90's, I put my Crown Victoria in
storage, cancelled the insurance, and didn't receive any snotty-grams from
anyone. Two years later I reactivated insurance for a month and donated it
to the Red Cross.... Don't remember if it was registered in NY or SD when I
cancelled insurance, but nobody questioned it.

Out of curiosity, sounds weird that requirement. It isn't a law to have
insurance on your car if you don't use it. Let's say you are going to do a
Drew-restoration and take your car ot of service for 17 years... If your car
isn't road worthy, why do you have to have insurance? They can report you to
the DMV, but there isn't a law against it, is there?

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [[1]mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Julian Kift
Sent: jueves, 26 de febrero de 2015 16:55
To: Kirby Schrader; De Tomaso List
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor

I think many States (NV certainly does) require that the car be insured to
maintain registration/tags and there is an obligation for insurers to report
to DMV when cover is canceled. This effectively forces someone to maintain
the car registered at a US physical/mailing address on behalf of the visitor
or for the visitor to maintain a US address. The latter can be achieved via
one of the many PO box companies, many of which will forward mail overseas.
I used a service in Miami that would forward mail and small packages to
Colombia during my period there.

The above registration requirement for continuous insurance may make it
difficult to get a rider on his/her overseas policy just for periods he/she
is in the US and I would not rely on DMV accepting that for registration.

Obtaining a US drivers license used to be as simple as knowing a few words
of Spanish and taking the test, but the rules all changed post 9/11 and then
DMV would only renew my license at the time for the valid period of my work
visa. Then again maybe it was because I mentioned I wanted to learn to drive
HAZMAT commercial :), just kidding you can't get a CDL whilst on a visa, I
did try!

He/she could try one of these as a starting point;

[2]https://d6371032-61c0-499f-9967-ca6e618cb017.insurancewebsitebuilder.com/aut
omobile/international_personnell_auto_insurance_quote.aspx

[3]http://www.4autoinsurancequote.com/learning-center/car-insurance-for-non-us-
citizens/

Julian

> From: [4]kirby.schrader at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 05:26:09 -0600
> To: [5]DeTomaso at poca.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Insurance for a visitor
>
>
> Scenario:
>
> Owns a car in the US, but has no home here.
> Has no US driver's license.
>
> Wants to drive the car here in the US.
>
> Where does he get insurance?
>
>
>
>
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