About my Dodge trip from Korea to Holland!

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Chris Bamford writes: This is a car we have driven extensively across and up and down North America — our last big trip was March 2012 to Tuktoyaktuk, the furthest north one can drive in Canada, with temperatures averaging -32°C and the final 112 miles on the ice road over the MacKenzie River and Beaufort Sea (click). Chris is no weakhearted Dodgeneer!

Now he has a question regarding a next trip:
"We are contemplating shipping my 1947 Dodge to South Korea next spring, then driving it from Vladivostok to Holland (only 11.400 kilometers...) in the summer of 2014,  where we would leave the car for the winter of 2014/15. We would return in spring 2015, holiday with the car on the mainland and UK, then ship it back to Canada's east coast. Having said all that, my question: Can you suggest an website and/or other source with information about whether we would have to register the car in Europe during the approximate year it is there? And if so, what are the requirements for registration, particularly around issues of rust, etc. There is a fair bit of surface and through rust on this car — not enough to make it unfit for the road (in my opinion) but enough that the cost and time involved to repair would be prohibitive, as well as the loss of much originality and oily rag appeal. I hope you can point me to a good information reference for these questions."

Editor: As far as we know you can drive your own car as a tourist in Holland. Minimum requirement is a Canadian country sticker near your registration plate on the back of the car. No further problem as long the car is road legal and insured for use in Europe. I think this counts for most countries in Europe. What do other European readers think?

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