Anyone here ever drive a car across the states recently purchased with a temporary registration of some sort? If so, how did you go about obtaining one.
Thinking about driving a car from the Mid U.S. to California then shipping her over.
Thanks in advance for any input

Just bring your Hawaii plates with you... If anyone asks tell them the new bridge is awesome..

I know California DMV will issue a moving permit, might figure out your route & try contacting the DMV's along the way through their websites...

Hey Randy! Thanks for your input. I was looking into checking the local DMV's of each state (that ought to be fun )
WHat sux about Hawaii is they will not issue me a registration until the car gets inspected locally once it arrives!
Oh trust me, the thought of bring my "other" plates have run through my mind but when you got your foot over a pedal in control of 570 horses backed by a 5 spd and 4:10 Dana "things" read: may happen

In New Hampshire the yhave a 20 day plate , I got one , insured the car and hopped a plane to D.C. and drove it home , no issues.

I think that Pa. had some sort of temp registration that one could get at Carlisle or Hershey to drive home something someone had just purchased .

You'll need to check the state you are buying it from , a legal reg. there should be legal in all fifty ?

Call your local DMV first,...Here in Mass, you are allowed to attach your current registered vehicle plates on the purchased vehicle for up to 10 days to transport it into/out of the state before reg. it, but you must notify the state DMV, and your insurance company, this way the vehicle is noted as "in transport", and temporarly insured,...your state my offer that as well?

John & Mike, thanks for the great info! I'll look inot both the state I'm in (Hawaii) and the state I'm picking up from (Ohio).

I'm thinking of doing a drive of a lifetime driving a '71 Hemicuda convertible cross country. Would make for some great memories and pictures. WIsh the trunk would be larger tho

Plan stops along the way to meet Moparts members, ship travel needs to those members & have boxes shipped back home from those stops... I got your central California stop covered... Then again Stu's playhouse would probably be more fun.. Personally when I travel I already have prepared FexEx shipping vouchers so I can box & ship as needed...

Randy! That's a great idea! Thanks for the offer

But I think I've been too absent lately from Moparts that members probably have forgotten about me

The shipping is a great idea! actyally I kinda did that when I was on the Mopar MoVenture trip this past summer. They gave us a lot of cool gifts along the way and I shipped to avoid having to lug it all

Now that I think about it, I don't think I've mentioned about that MOPAR trip on here. It was a blast, all expense paid trip thanks to Ma Mopar!

Check it out here: http://www.mopar.com/moventure/follow.php

ah hem.....






where at in Ohio? sounds like a fun trip!


In ohio, you get something like 10 days to get a newly purchased vehicle titled into your name. I'd have to dig up the ORC again, but when I bought my blue truck, it was in New York, and the Ohio law was written in a way that allowed me to put my own plates on it from another vehicle "just to get it home" so I could then take it to get the Odometer inspected and title work done. SO LONG AS I carried a bill of sale/signed title from the sale with me.