Everything you ever wanted to know about the cross-border buying and selling of a vintage collector car even during a global pandemic| Hemmings

By Craig Fitzgerald

***So, the days of a picking up a car and driving or trailering it home are temporarily over. What about an American citizen crossing the border to drop a car off? Nope, that’s not happening either. “Until further notice, most foreign nationals cannot travel to Canada, even if they have a valid visitor visa or electronic travel authorization,” reads the information from the Government of Canada. There are exceptions, but they’re specific enough and so unrelated to the collector car hobby that we’re not going to waste any time talking about them here. Click the link above to find out if you meet any of those exceptions.So enough with the bad news. The good news is that shipping a car to and from Canada via a professional trucking company has essentially been unimpacted by travel restrictions. Commercial drivers making runs across the border ARE having their personal information collected by Canadian officials, but trade and transportation of goods between the two countries is progressing largely unimpeded by the pandemic.***Read much more…

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