We have the insurance!

As we told you before, it is possible to insure an American car without being an American. That’s pretty good news for foreign people, like us.

But it’s not as easy as it sounds. To get your car insured you first have to select a car. This sounds pretty obvious, but it is not. Because of the rather complex way of registering a car, the insurance company will not give you an insurance fee quote, because it’s to much work to calculate the fee.

You will get the fee for your car in a take it or leave it offer. Pretty strange. At the other hand, the prices are not that high that you will spend much time in comparing different insurance companies.

When you buy a car, make sure to add an option in your agreement to cancel the deal when the car cannot be insured. That makes buying a car a litle more difficult because sales people usually don’t like extra cancellation options. But there are carsalesman who will help. Our contact with Mike was great and he was willing to make us a deal with this possibility.

After that you have to fill in the application form. This must be the application of the state you will register your car in. These form are very difficult to complete. U can find a manual on the internet which has 16 pages! But we, especially Eelco, were able to fill in all the questions in good order the first try. After that we have sent the form to Mrs. Alessie, our dutch insurance agent. Then the process takes about five days to complete.

This week we received some good news from Mrs. Alessie; there was no problem what so ever for us to insure the Roadmaster. The total costs of insurance for the Roadmaster will be $ 145,–.