In BC the car is always registered to an owner... you just need to get driving insurance to put it on the road and be covered..
We can get an insurance permit for 1-20(?) days... or we can get proper insurance for 3mos-1year.
A 3-day permit here costs $89 and gives me $300 deductible for glass/comprehensive and $2M liability, I get a sticker to put in the window as proof of insurance.
The remainder of the year I have storage insurance on the car(s), and it costs approx $60-200/yr (depending on the value of the car)... against fire, theft, damage, etc.
I usually insure my '03 Vert and the Monte SS for 6-7 months per year with full insurance, and buy short-term permits for the '75 Vette on the occasions when I want to drive it.
In the winter I put storage insurance on all my cars then I fully insurance our Pontiac until Spring.
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It's not cheap here to insure a car for the road all year.. It costs $1K-$2K per year, per car...depending on car value.
It's what it is...!(I don't want to start any politically motivated Provincial bashing here!!).
Eric.. so do you put insurance on your truck in June and cancel after 10 days, and then do the same in the fall..?
Murray..Can you not get temp insurance for a few days back there??
We can even get a 1-day permit for $30... drive anywhere for 24 hours.
Many years ago(30+) you could only get a point-to-point operating permit to mover a vehicle from one place to another.
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