I drove from eastern Texas home to Arizona when I bought mine. Dealership left plates on and I had no issues.

Dont drive like an idiot, but if you do get pulled over, just tell the cop the truth: you just bought the car, you are legally insured on your last/other car(s), and you will be switching/adding this one as soon as you get home.

Again, just resist the temptation to drive like an idiot.

 

Haha man that temptation sucks tho especially on a highway for a 14 hour drive.. (driving the speed limit) Ill make an update once I talk to everyone this afternoon.

 

I will assume you're buying an S2000.. in which case, you're going to want to drive really fast. You will probably get a ticket, and you will be glad you are legally driving a registered and insured vehicle

 

Well as it turns out the car needed over $600 in parts on the drivers side, one of the quarter panels isnt made any more so the car wouldnt be worth it in my opinion. Also plus painting the parts I was looking at over 1k in stuff I dont want to deal with. Guy tried to hide the damage in the pics but I asked for closer ones... scummy haha. Oh well Ill have to keep looking.

 

I have done this before and I live in Va.

 

I bought my car in Chicago (when I graduated school in Michigan) and had it shipped home to California.

I paid the $25 or whatever for temp tags, but was not about to put two thousand miles on my car.


If you care to look up shipping, I used DAS (direct auto shippers). It took a week to go cross country and cost me $670. It would have been about $570 but I paid the $100 premium to gaurantee a top load spot for my car

 

nice screen name!

this was my old license plate when i had my Audi A6 2.7T back in the days!

 

I drove my S from Orlando, Florida to Garden City, Kansas without any problems at all. I had the title and insurance. I also had my old tag on hand just in case. You have 30 days to get the car tagged. I never got stopped once and had highway patrol behind me a few times.

 

I bought my car in NY, I actually paid for it got the bill of sale, and registered/insured it before I picked it up. Time consuming but the cleanest way to do it.

 

I purchased my car in Boston and I live in NJ. At the time NJ sales tax was 6% (now 7%) and Massachusetts has a 5% sales tax. I had to pay their 5% and they gave me a voucher that I would show my dmv when registering it so I only have to pay the difference (1%).

I put it on insurance, went to the dmv and registered it, they gave me plates, went to Boston to pick it up.