European impressions; I must vent my frustration

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:26:01 +0200, you wrote:

>This is exactly how things work here in Poland. You can only unregister
>your car in three cases:
>1) You sold it
>2) It was stolen from you
>3) You crushed it at a certified recycling facility
>I've heard a story of a guy who converted his old Fiat 126 into a mini
>tractor. It turned out he needs to keep his "car" registered and pay
>insurance - there's no way for him now to legally unregister the car
>except maybe to crush the leftover body parts.

Here in Norway, you can unregister your car just by removing the
plates and leaving them at the DMV. A car without plates is just like
another thing, no taxes or anything.. But _if_ you have the plates on
the car on January 1st, you have to pay full road tax (about $240 for
all passenger cars) for the whole year if you don't leave it at a
certified car recycler before March 15th..

If you have a car, you get about $170 when you leave it at a certified
recycler, no matter if it's been sitting without plates for many
years.

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E. Spangen
'90 Audi 200TQ 20v