What was complicated about it?  I did that for years with my classic Mustangs and do it now with our Westy Syncro on both Allstate and Geico policies.  In the Spring we call them up and activate the full policy so we can drive the vehicle and in the Fall we call and suspend the portions that would apply to a vehicle being driven leaving necessary coverage for a vehicle in storage.  No hassles involved just one call does it all.  I supppose that it could be our agents are more familiar with doing this as it is common in our climate to store classic cars, RV's, motorcycles, snow mobiles, etc, for the off season.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Date: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:35 am
Subject: Re: buy a daily driver or press the syncro into service?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> When I used Allstate for insurance, they had some complicated
> scenario where you could insure for part of the year and not for some
> other part of the year. Since ice and snow are not an issue around
> here except rarely, there was never a reason not to drive either of
> the vanagons because it was "put away" for the winter. So, I ended up
> wanting to drive the camper when I was working on the Carat, and vice
> versa, or for some other reason. So that arrangement didn't work out
> for me as it might for others. I solved the problem (sort of) by
> switching to Geico, saving so much money that it didn't really
> matter. All that being said, I'm still paying to insure a third car,
> so I could save $240 a year by dropping one or the other, but the
> convenience of having a spare car when you only drive vanagons and
> the savings of driving the diesel over the waterboxer seems worth it
> to me.
>
> Jim
>