Anyone able to get s2000 registered as a collector car in NJ or historic vehicles?

 

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Yea, I was able to do it. It’s not that hard of a process but I can guide you through if you need help. The steps are:
1. You must have some sort of collectors type of insurance like hagerty or Grundy.
2. Fill out the collectors car application directly from the NJ dmv.
3. When you fill that, you must send in detailed pictures of what the car looks like, every angle, covering the whole car, exterior only.
4. You must provide proof that the car is of limited quantity produced, for this I used the Honda sales handbook where it detailed how many s2000s were produced/sold by year and total overall.
5. Send everything in to the DMV and you will receive a collectors car voucher.
6. Take the voucher over to a DMV local office and they will complete the process.
7. After you finish, you’ll head over to the inspection place, only a few in NJ that do it. I used Lodi.
8. At the inspection place, you don’t go into the bays. Instead park your car outside the administration office, go inside and say you’re there for a collectors car inspection.
9. The person will come out, inspect your cluster, jot down your mileage and tell you to drive a few miles and come back.
10. After the person verifies that your cluster is working, they will slap a triangle inspection sticker where the inspection goes normally.
11. Mileage restrictions are 6,000 per 2 years and every 2 years you must repeat the process of getting it inspected. You won’t receive special plates or anything, just mileage restriction.

 

just curious.. why or what's the benefit? tia.

 

well no actual inspection is one thing.... the other is you only have to go get a new collector car triangle sticker every 5 years.

 

I've just had this discussion with a friend of mine who just went through COLLECTOR status for a recent acquisition of one of the special edition Dodge Challenger models. He had to go to DMV multiple times. The clerk knew nothing, supervisor knew nothing. He recapped his ordeal to get it done and it wasn't pretty. I also started to investigate HISTORIC status for my S as my next inspection is 2027 and I have an '02 so I'd qualify.

Don't confuse COLLECTOR status with HISTORIC status. The process is pretty similar for both IIRC but there are some differences.

Historic: https://www.nj.gov/mvc/pdf/vehicles/SP-121.pdf
Collector: https://www.nj.gov/mvc/pdf/vehicles/...ll_vehicle.pdf (https://www.nj.gov/mvc/pdf/vehicles/...fact_sheet.pdf)

I believe the main differences are:
Once a car gets to 25 years old, it moves from COLLECTOR to HISTORIC.
Mileage limitations are different
Insurance requirements are different.

 

Yup, even if you have collector car status on your car now, you will be required to switch to historical status when the car reaches 25 years old. I did not want to get QQ plates on one car I have registered as a collector car, so now I have to just get the inspections done every 2 years.