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Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:06 pm
Been doing a lot of reading and it seems like there should be a data base for the 49 friendly states and maybe even California for registering these R32's. Like what you had to go through and even branches and people you talked to to get the car titled. That way when walking in you get someone who's done this before and will eliminate a lot of confusion on both sides. For me I'm going to try and register mine in Oregon when I get one, has anyone does this yet? If so which branch and who did you talk to?
If no one has, I recently called the Oregon DMV and spent an hour talking to them. The first guy was a little confused and pushed me off to a tech. She called me back pretty quick and initially insisted the car had to meet federal standards to be registered in Oregon. I asked her about the fact that the car is 25 years old and federally exempt. We went back and forth on it for about 20 min until she saw something and asked me what year the car would be. I said 89 or 90, she responded with "Oh, that's old enough to be exempt" *Insert face palm* She then told me that everything is all good and all I would need is a title showing change in owner ship. This seems to be my hang up since, as far as I can tell, Japan doesn't use titles. However I've seen documents in Japanese that look like titles so I don't know. She also told me, since I'm getting the car in California, once I buy the car I can send a written request for temporary plates to drive the car for 29 days. That way I can drive the car up instead of having to ship it. I really wish I would have written down her name cause then I could have kept up communication and called her when I actually found a car to register.
So basically if anyone reading this has successfully registered a car in Oregon please let me know what you needed and what you did as well as who you talked to and which branches you went to. Other wise as things move forward I'll update.