If only that was so easy these days. I’m looking to take my RHD car back to the UK to sell it and it looks painful.
To register a car in the UK requires a permanent UK address for the registered keeper (not necessarily the owner or the driver) and for the insurance. Providing incorrect details would result in DVLA, HMRC and insurer taking a dim view of registration intended to mislead or be fraudulent…
You must admit that your day out was hardly registering a car by a non-resident?
It’s not clear what is a car registration office - a Post office perhaps? You UK registered the GTD then drove it to a VW dealership to collect your new car .What was the purpose as any dealer buying in a foreign registered car would be capable of re-registering it?
And VW Export Sale provided temporary export plates?
Of course it was, and vite fait at that 
I needed no proof of residence or abode all I needed (and I had researched this, of course) was a letter from Alan Day on the North Circular saying they agreed to their address being used to register the car.
While I do hoard documentation, the GTD file of over ten years ago has gone, so I can’t tell you the address of the “registration office”. It certainly wasn’t a post office, probably some county council office? But they were happy to (re)register the GTD. God bless 'em I can’t remember now if I changed the plates or not, probably not.
I agree that Alan Day could have reregistered the car but they didn’t want the bother and it was no skin off my nose to do so. I guess buying it on foreign plates would have been a risk for them and impacted the trade-in price.
You do raise an interesting point. Driving from the registration office to collect the Tiguan I may not have theoretically been insured. But I wouldn’t (and still wouldn’t 
)have cared too about that, the VIN that MAAF had was the same, their ability to find out the reg had changed was zero. That might have been the reason I didn’t change the plates (if I didn’t 
)
When I bought a car for export here I did get export plates (red) but not (in my case anyway) in the UK, but the registration document is obviously different. Which caused the folk in my local prefecture a bit of heartache . UK dealers often offer short term insurance as well, which I’ve availed of since when picking up a car there.
He’s the only document I still have relating to the GTD, it’s Alan Day’s offer to buy it… a very straightforward transaction.
And the Tigger on her way back to France… I got them to register it on the 1st of July, my sixtieth birthday
This is when the thaw set in and we decided on a 4X4 upgrade… (GTD on the right).
As for the DVLA and HMRC, they can take as dim a view as they like. I did my research, I did nothing wrong and I had no intention to “mislead or be fraudulent”.… What could they possibly complain about?
As I’ve commented before, many rules are open to interpretation and often who dares wins
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who dares wins - like your style!
I’m trying to figure out what ‘dragi 300’ means. My guess is Draguinan, reinforced by the 83 plate on the car?
If so, is snow very common there in the winter? - you would be near the gorges du verdon, I wouldn’t have thought that was very ‘snowy’. But I see you would also be near the famous ski resort ‘Les Arcs’. 
Euh Les Arcs in the Var 83 and Les Arcs the ski resort in Savoie 73 are two totally different places
The Var has three distinct “climates”. The coast which has rarely, if ever, snow, the mid Var which has snow occasionally and the high Var which equally has snow occasionally but you do need some chains in your boot to be legal 
The Les Arcs ski resort is in my old stomping ground Savoie and many’s the time I skied there (without bloody chains or winter tyres) Our les Arcs is sur Argens and is important to us for its TGV station
Yes, skied there for a week once, I recall it is famous for its speed ski course, which I skied down ‘leisurely’ - keeping a careful lookout. At the top were some speed skiers and I particularly remember the one legged one.
I think I was there before the Plagne connection - someone mentioned something about walking up somewhere and one would reach La Plagne.
The other Les Arcs on the TGV- would that be the line to Nice?
As above, sorry - I meant the comment as a joke! Smiley face didn’t work…
PS I saw this article and thought of you because you lived there for a while? I’m sure you’ve read about it though. Presume this thread drift is allowed because it’s food.
Thank you for a comprehensive reply. .
The registration office would have been a DVLA regional office.back in 2013.
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Yes, though it doesn’t run a high speed until it get to around Aix.
I read about the San Trop issue in the paper but I have to say it’s not my experience of the place, and I’ve been there many times. Including one Morgan outing where all our cars were lined up on the harbour wall. I took from the article its the very upmarket places that are doing this stuff, the normal little restos have never seemed expensive, let alone very expensive, to me. Similar prices to our local village for lunch.
It’s actually my home town where a lot of my family still live at least part of the time. The photo illustrating the article is taken from my family’s land I have to say it has become somewhere I don’t particularly want to be unless hors-saison, and I wouldn’t bring children up there. We were all sent abroad to school.