In BC there is a Transfer/Tax form to fill out, and if you don't have the previous registration certificate then you are in for a BIG headache. I bought my M38A1 last year from the widow of the previous owner, who had let the registration lapse around 1989 and then left in it the back of his shop for 21 years (until he died unexpectedly in a car accident). She didn't have the previous registration, (which it later turned out was in the name of a defunct company he owned) and even though ICBC accepted that he was dead and that she had inherited his estate, that wasn't good enough. The widow had to get her lawyer to establish that her husband had owned the truck (and of course ICBC wouldn't simply tell us who it was previously registered to because of the Privacy Act), then it had to be transferred into her name (and the appropriate fees paid) before she could transfer it to me with the proper registration certificate (at which point I had to pay the fees again as well as sales tax!). All of that took 11 months, at which point I had valid license plates and insurance for a vehicle which hadn't been on the road in 22 years, and didn't even have working brakes. But I paid the fees and the tax, so it was perfectly legal to drive it!
Long story short, avoid registering anything in BC.
Mike
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Mike Baker
Comox, BC
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