Law / Buying a car in Poland for export [48]

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Hello people!
I'm traveling to poland next summer with my friends and I'm looking for some assistance on a subject that we have been plondering.

Is it possible for a foreigner (eu citizen) to buy a car from poland and have somekind of insurance on it and drive it away from poland?

We've had this idea of a roadtrip from poland to tallinn and when we reach tallinn we had the idea of destroying the car in some local scrapyard. How would this work in terms of taxation of polish cars and the fakt that the car would never been used again.

FYI We're also intrested in buying an old automobile eg. Lada 1200 that would be legal and liable throughout the roadtrip... PM/me if you could assist!

THANK YOU!

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Well we have time, but we need a reliable contact. We're coming in 2012 july so we have the time to operate during this spring, but the nasty part is that we're unable to be there to sign papers nore documents so: If someone is having a old cheap but working car for sale, we are intrested in case the someone would help us to get the vehicle legally out of poland. How bout them temporary plates + green card?

The car would be taken of the polish register...

And if someone would have any polish used car websites I'd appreciate any input, because I'm finding it hard to scavenge thru every website in polish. Do you guys have anything close to eg. autoscout or other? Just to take a look, if it's even worth the pain of finding a affordable used old junk but still reliable car from poland. The drviving away part isn't that hard I'd think...

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Here in finland one can return the licenseplates and drive around on temporary plates. Is there anything close to this?
So, If we had the umowa and we go to a place to give back the licenseplates, wich in finland means stopping the taxation of the car would we be able to get a set of temporary plates and buy a greencard?

Because of the temporarity we're making it to tallinn in 3days and demolishing the car in a legal local scrapyard, everything legal, because I'm not intrested in getting arrested by any police just because I had a hell of a vacation.

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The three days was an example, because I'm not sure of our plans for the baltics.
But as far as I've been told there are no temporary plates in poland? That makes my life a little harder.
Rental car isn't an option because the extra fee for leaving the car somewhere else than the country it was hired from is just unbelieveable, we tried that as our first option. (under 25yrs male)

So how are the polish cars registered? Is it done by the same place where you take cars for MOT?
How bout if the car is garaged, are the numberplates taken back to the officials? And if they are, how can one move the car, are there temporary plates? The fact is that the origin of the car is polish but it will be estonian a "few" hours later, so some temporary arrangement should be possible...

Eg. A finn buys a car from germany, takes it of the german registry, gets somekind of a temporary driving permit for it and drives the car thru europe to finland and at the finnish border fills a few documents and lays out the ownerchange documents and the finnish officials would give the car a "red" licenseplate until the car is given its tax. The red plates cost like 15€/day

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We're looking for a old relic :D A 124 or 123 mercedes or a old Lada or Shiguli(don't know how it's written) something old, robust, cheap and quite liable. We're dreaming of a epic roadtrip. Kinda like driving thru the states via route 66 with a buick. Old american go allso by the way

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You guys are getting the hang of what we're looking for, a running eastern relic that would be "legal" (easy) to drive out of the country. A mediocre passat isn't just scratching the itch that we're having.

We found the 125p a quite impressive option. Zuk is impressive allso, but I'm quite skeptic of the zuk running and accelerating to 40km/h in time for tallinn?

How bout those cars that have been taken off the registration? "garaged" Am I able to move one around with umowa and kupno-sprzedaz?

So if you could keep eyes open for legal and running old eastern relics I'd appreciate the input and I promise to buy a round in Krakow for the ones that helped us out on this bound to be epic roadtrip!

Much love guys!
What does this mean "Na gazie i na beznynie jeździ." ?
There are some words that translate as in "toasted and bonfire" and I think that they've got something to do with the engine firing up and running rather than burning and being burnt?

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I think our cashlimit for the car is roughly 500€ so it's about 2000pln...
If the vehicle runs and works in tallinn we will take the car to finland and make it a deluxe summer cruiser.
I was born in tallinn at the CCCP era even tho' my memories are vague I still cherish my roots as an Estonian and a former soviet , so it would mean a lot for me to find an old sovietmade car. I doesn't have to be in a mint condition because it's the yourney we're intrested in not the destination.

I take my photos with an original '86 LOMO (not with a cheap copy) I love chebureks and I'm just keen on everything coming from the old soviet countries... Even tho' my parents think I'm a bit loose from the upper compartment, they had to live with the brainwash and the "my comrade"- attitude, for me it's just intriguing.

And I'm not insulting, I'm respecting every single soul that had to push thru the soviet age.
Come to think of it, repairing a -78 Toyota with a pair of pantyhose and a paperclip is impossible, but for the soviet cars they'd be sold as original spareparts.

Soviets had a nice way of thinking i.e the space race: US spent billions on inventing a ball-point capable of writing in outerspace, they got up to writing underwater. At the same time Mr. Gagarin was given pencil...

Sry I got a little off topic.


So we should actually be looking for a zuk, a zil, a vaz, a uaz or the italian kind of a 125p? The Zuk got me fired up. :D

And yes I'm cheap slightly retarded and a total nut...

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Shooting frogs out of my anonymous internet mouth, sorry for that... I know that Poland wasn't a soviet country. Molotov and Ribbentrop. I do know... The allmost correct sentence would a be a country behind the iron curtain? Or in front of the curtain depends on which side one is observing it from.


That I allready know :D I just felt like I should bring that to the daylight allso. So everybody is now well informed that there will be some crazy finns and an estonian coming to poland in july and buying an old relic and driving it thru the CEE to finland to fulfill a mad dream of having an adventure on roads that most of the pampered finns would avoid because of their prejudice and fear.

The point is that we'd prefer a vehicle with the CEE running in it. No hard feelings guys. Much respect and a bagful of gratitude for helping me out!