Mike,
When You get up here, you might try the dmv office in Redmond, it's usually
much faster. You should have no trouble at all with a title, insurance card
and a checkbook.
Check out the Salmon plates, part of the proceeds go to restoring salmon
runs & habitat.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Foss - Shazam" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: Registering in Oregon?

> YES THANK YOU Jake !
> I had a 'B' in mind, but knew it wasn't 'Ben."
>
> Jake de Villiers wrote:
>> I believe that's Brendan Slavin?
>>
>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Scott Foss - Shazam
>> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com <mailto:scottdaniel@turbovans.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     No Sir...........
>>     i will tell you EXACTLY the skinny on going to the DMV with your CA
>>     registered van.
>>     first there are NO SMOG CHECKS in Oregon anywhere, except in the
>>     Portland area and the Rogue Valley ( medford- ashland ) where i am.
>>
>>     They will VIN check it, so drive it to the DMV.
>>     go in, tell them you now live in oregon- when i did this just
>>     yesterday
>>     with my old mercedes with Wa plates- they said
>>     'do you live in oregon?"
>>     do you have an Oregon drivers's license?"
>>     'is the car here now?"
>>     i answered yes to all 3 questions -they said fill out this form, wait
>>     for your number to be called.
>>     so they might want you to get an Or driver's license first.
>>
>>     but other than looking at the VIN on the car - they don't care.
>>     they don't care if it was a diesel and now it's a Suabur gasoline
>>     engine  or whatever.
>>     They simply are not interested in it smog wise in anyway.
>>     there WAS a deal in Oregon where campers cost more, like double to
>>     register,
>>     I beleieve that went out Jan 1 of this year.
>>     They also do two years at a time.
>>     Yesterday, on my 38 year old Mercedes, to transfer the title to
>> Oregon
>>     registration........you know waht i mena, and get plaes and tags
>>     for two
>>     years...........cost $ 120.00.
>>     Bring proof of insurance of course on the vehicle.
>>
>>     There are no safety inspections.
>>     I 'was' told by the allways difficult Ashland DMV ( never go there)
>>     .....i had this parts van or something i thought i might want an
>>     orgeon
>>     title for ( was Wa) ............they said 'has to be running, has to
>>     have all equip liight lights working' etc.........
>>     of course i am like .................what , it's a parts van.  And it
>>     still has Wa plates on it, and i let the reregistration lapse.
>>     But of the several out of state cars i've taken to the DMV to title
>> in
>>     oregon...............
>>     THE ONLY thing they have ever done is look at the two VIN tags, I
>>     could
>>     have a Stinger Missile mounted on the roof and i don't think they'd
>>     notice. I've had a non VW gasoline engine in a diesel van ( the 5th
>>     digit of the   VIN tells which type of engine the van left the
>> factory
>>     with , B = gas, G = diesel, very logical - in geman perhaps ! )
>>     ...............but i've had that weird combo, and due to the age
>>     of the
>>     van.......
>>     they never said boo about engine or whatever.  That particular van
>>     had a
>>     Wa title that said 'gas- passenger' but when i got my Oregon
>>     title...........their system flagged as a diesel by the VIN - and the
>>     Oregon title said 'diesel'.
>>
>>     but you won't have any of that.
>>     and if it's like Medford is, their soul  ( sole ? ) interest in
>>     the van
>>     will be to check the VIN , both of them. ( there's a 3rd hidden
>>     one too ) .
>>     It could be different in Bend, but i doubt it.
>>
>>     But I've been to the Medford  DMV about 8 times in 5 years or so,
>>     always
>>     smooth.
>>     it's like the old days.......
>>     you just go in, say i want to title this car in Oregon to me, they
>> say
>>     'fill out this form', ' give us your money.'
>>     they give you the plates and year and month tags,  , and YD-
>>     you're done.
>>     there is a nice Crater Lake license plate, it's an extra  $ 20.
>>     and one
>>     time only fee, and that money goes to Crate Lake they say, and i did
>>     that on one of my vans.
>>     There are also salmon license plates or whatever.
>>     yesterday the guy asked me 'do you just want the pine tree ones? "
>>     .................i said'just  the basic ones, yes '
>>     ...........those are
>>     the standard plates, but look into their Crater Lake plate- that will
>>     make you look like a clued-in Native !!
>>
>>     you asked, there you go. More than you wanted !!
>>     scott
>>     www.turbovans.com <http://www.turbovans.com>
>>     Rogue Valley - Medford-Ashland, Southern Oregon.,
>>     Vanagon engine conversion specialist, vanagon restoration  and
>>     'saving '
>>     vanagons etc.
>>
>>     BTW,
>>     There's this fancy coffee shop down town, in Bend, in the cool part -
>>     Italian flavor type place- not a starbucks.
>>     I haven't been there, but the owner is a vanagon guy.
>>     Can't think of his name right now. He and his wife and i 3 kids were
>>     stuck on this side of the Cascades a few months ago, with a
>>     vanagon that
>>     could only go 20 mph, working together at me shop we fixed it -
>>     water in
>>     the fuel, and got them home.
>>     So ask in that coffee shop, and you'll have a vanagon friend perhaps
>> !
>>     84 Vanagon passenger model I believe.  Real nice people too !
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Mike Elliott wrote:
>>
>>         As I posted earlier, Mrs Squirrel and I are moving to Oregon
>>         (Bend) from
>>         California. The endless seas of pink stucco houses, mini-malls,
>>         pollution,
>>         heat, and people everywhere around here in SoCal have finally
>>         gotten to
>>         me. I know this is not necessarily a Good Thing in the minds
>>         of many
>>         Oregonians, but there it is. Bend has had more than its fair
>>         share of
>>         Californication, but we'll do what we can to fit in: we're
>>         bringing our
>>         little home businesses there to contribute to the local
>>         economy, and
>>         we'll
>>         be friendly.
>>
>>         First thing we'll do is register with the Oregon DMV and swap
>>         out our
>>         Cali
>>         plates for Oregon ones, if for no other reason than to avoid a
>>         stoning
>>         from riled-up passersby. Of course I expect we'll need to pass
>>         emissions
>>         (and safety?) requirements -- anyone care to comment on that
>>         vis a vis
>>         California standards?
>>
>>         --
>>         Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>         71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>         84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>         74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>         KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jake
>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>> Crescent Beach, BC
>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com <http://www.crescentbeachguitar.com>
>> http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27
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