How do you get a permit to do a god-damned illegal thing?
You don’t, you just do it.
Because the truck is under construction, I’m having to drive something else, and until now, that something else hasd been Kia! The Car that you Wear!.
I have had- all this time-a perfectly good minivan in the driveway, but it needed plates, registration, title, etc.
The problem has been getting all that done.
See, the Brotherinlaw and his culinarily hyperskilled wife left the van here as they moved on to Austria. They seem to be settled in there now, and i hope it is a good fit for all involved.
Anyway, back to the van. They sold me the van as they left to help them take care of their travel expenses, and it has been sitting in the driveway,in perfectly serviceable condition, ever since.
SO I needed to get it titled and tagged.
Therin lies the rub. This was a Canadian vehicle, and it had to come through customs. The I had to have documentation of all the safety/emissions standards.
And the plates have expired.
So I ended up driving 200 miles, on the nastiest weather day of the year, to get the customs inspection, with very sensitive brakes, a slight steering misalignment, and expired plates.
Thankfully, to god, everything went well, and it is DONE. and now I have a very nice vehicle to drive until the Exploder is roadworthy again.
Well, except that the dingodipwad at Emissions caused it to throw a code because he left the gas cap unscrewed. Idiot.
Anayway, I have a diagnostic interface that allowed me to troubleshoot and fix it immediately. So I’m in fat city. Thanks, Paul and Liz. You rock.
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>This was a Canadian vehicle …
Cool. You mean a “Western Star” maybe??
LOL! No. An Aerostar.
Couldn’t you have just gotten a ten-day trip permit or some such? Around here, you whip out your DL, Insurance card and some sort of bill of sale from the registered owner, and you get a temp, in some cases good for 3 months, but no less than 10 days. Paste that puppy into the back window, and off you go, legal and square.
BTW, the Rivrdog blog is active again.
Well it’s about damned time.
No, you can’t get a temp tag in Indiana.
Looking to sell it ? #1 daughter is in dire need of a minivan. She’s been driving a Malibu and it is really impractical with a fifteen year old , a five year old and a toddler. No room.
swmbo
If the Exploder was done, maybe- but now it’s all I got!!!
If your dipshit emission testers are anything like our (Seattle Area) dipshit testers, you’re lucky the iriot didn’t take your wheels off to look at something underneath.
Yep, the moron at the test station tried to do that to my wife’s ’97 Blazer. I caught ‘im before he could get a jack under it. I threw a fit, that mager came out, rolled her eyes and told him to take the rest of the day off. I said he should go get a job he could handle, I heard there was an opening as a fence post at the park dept. He didnt’ get it.
Keep us posted. I’m serious about the van.
swmbo
There’s a big line ahead of you, Toni. Sorry.
Hi Sweety,
We are setteling slowly but very good.
Thanks for the nice words in your block about my cooking.
Have got the headchef job in March in the castle and now I have a nice chefjob too.
Nice to hear everything is ok.
Love
Liz
[…] Bloody cold The exploder is misfiring. It may be bad gas. It may be a fouled spark plug. All I know is, it has decided it doesn’t like it’s spot in the nice warm heated garage, so it will sit outside until it decides to behave, or it is warm enough to work on it. In the meantime, I will be driving the Van, which will probably appreciate being parked indoors. hell, IT started immediately, after being ignored ALL WINTER. […]