Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Listers in CA

[BRIGANDBAR (BRIGANDBAR]

Tom:
 
Congratulations on your potential acquisition. 
 
Are you going to drive out to CA to pick it up, or will you have it  shipped? 
If I remember correctly CA will require that you pay their sales tax if  you 
pick a car up and drive it away, but not if you have it shipped by common  
carrier. Even in the case of our road use tax here in the People's Socialist  
Republic of Kentucky it save me enough in relative taxation rates to have  my 
Corniche shipped here to pay most of the cost of shipping (though that may no  
longer be the case given the extortionate price of diesel fuel and trucking  
carriage today) but I'd guess that Brian would be the one to chip in here with  
more current and commercial knowledge of these things. If you can't find a  
carrier of excellent repute let me know and I'll look up the information on the 
 
carrier I used. It is the same common carrier that I subsequently used to 
bring  the Ferrari down from N.Y. and I have been most satisfied with the 
quality 
of  his work so far.
 
Of course, living in OK you have the advantage of taking the Amtrak train  
out to CA and then driving the historic Rte 66 back home in the car if you did  
elect to drive it. Maybe you could find a cheap carrier to pick it up and then 
 just drop it off around the block.
 
One caveat to the paragraph on sales taxes. It may not apply if you are  
buying the car from an individual rather than a dealer in CA.  As always  YMMV 
and 
a call or two to CA DMV may be the best "straight from the horse's  mouth" (I 
don't know what the etiology of this phrase is, Mr. Ed?) source of  
information.
 
Dr. Steve
 
Dr.  Stephen B. Spies, CES, CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences  Laboratory
Explosives Engineering Technologies

1964 Rolls Royce Silver  Cloud III.....1975 Pontiac Grandville 
1980 MB 450  SL............................1982 Rolls Royce Corniche DHC
1988 Rolls Rouce  Silver Spur..........1994 F-350 PowerStroke Diesel 
1995 Ferrari 348  Spyder.................1996 Ford Bronco 
2000 Lincoln Town  Car....................2004 Ford Excursion 
+ Audrey's 2 MB's [1980 450SL  & 1987 420SEL] to care for...

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