Insurance for the halftrack

Jack Innes · #1 03-05-12, 00:48

Andy, I have found that US insurance companies can/will not insure cars in Canada.
Perhaps you need to operate under the same system that covers cranes, vacuum excavtor trucks, truck mounted tree spades, etc. here in Ontario. They do not have license plates & must be insured as off road machines. If you could come up with a legitimate farm use for the half track your farm policy should cover it on the road. I drive my John Deere to town once in a while & it is covered by Farmer's Mutual. Your White would certainly pull a wagon load of carrots through a wet field where many tractors would not.

Harry Moon · #2 03-05-12, 00:58

Try Haggerty's they are offering specialty car insurance in B.C. and i see on the web they are in Ontario now too.

maple_leaf_eh · #3 03-05-12, 03:32

The name that comes to mind from when I asked about my M38A1, was Silver Wheels.

Jack Innes · #4 03-05-12, 03:46

The Silver Wheels Insurance is now known as Haggerty's Silver Wheel. It appears that Silver Wheels has merged with Haggerty's. I understand there is a new method of evaluation that eliminates the need for appraisals.
I have many vehicles insured with Silver Wheels & have been treated very well for years, assumably this good service will continue.

chris vickery · #5 03-05-12, 04:34

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but, unless Silver Wheels has changed its policies, goodluck with your halftrack....
This issue has been hashed to death here on MLU, more related to universal carriers in the past, to no avail.
I have been there, done that with my M9A1 International halftrack I used to own. Why do I not own it now?

Geoff Bottoms · #6 03-05-12, 04:47

I use ZEHR Insurance Brokers for my CMP F60 and Willys Jeep.
E mail Amber Lamka from ZEHR in New Hamberg at
alamka@zehrinsurance.com
See if they can help you.

Harry Moon · #7 03-05-12, 05:40

You gotta move to BC Chris! But you would still need a co-driver to reach up in the Timmy's drive thru!

Ed Landstrom · #8 04-05-12, 15:40

Mine is covered under my farm policy as an "antique White tractor". The company has pictures of it so apparently it doesn't bother them that it was originally an artillery tractor rather than a farm tractor. After all, a lot of military equipment has been converted to farm, forestry, or construction use with varying degrees of success. I have seen half tracks with things like trenchers and well-drilling rigs mounted on them. A few decades back, one of the big American surplus dealers used to advertise converted half-tracks in Rock and Dirt.

I was only interested in liability insurance. The coverage allows me to drive it to up to (I'd have to look up the number) shows a year.They might have been harder to deal with if I had wanted to insure the vehicle itself against damage. I figure that something that conspicuous would be hard to steal, and it's unlikely to be seriously damaged in any collision that I'm likely to survive. That leaves fire, and all I can do about that is carry a lot of extinguishers.

My Carrier is insured the same way as an "antique Ford tractor" but I'm still trying to find a category to insure the Ferret. It was insured under my antique auto policy with Zurich, but when the company was sold, the new company said it didnt "fit their idea of an antique vehicle". To be honest, I haven't looked too hard for a replacement company. It still gets out occasionally, but only to events where the organizers provide transportation and have a liability policy that covers participants.