Hi,

ealier this year I inquired about buying a car as a tourist.

Now I'm trying to do it and meeting some difficulties.

While a motel or Bed'n Breakfast address seems acceptable, as long as
the DMV can mail the title there (and I don't advertise it being a
motel), and while it proved no problem to get insurance (DCAP, but
there's also a German agency providing some), New York State has an ID
point score system that gives me trouble. You need a total of six
points of ID that you can provide through various means. My passport
would be worth three points, my credit card one, but I had baned on my
driver's licence providing the rest, which it won't - it's an
international licence, and as such, not "out of state" but "out of
country".

There might still be some routes to take (http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/
forms/id82.pdf) but I could also get 30 day temp tags by the dealer
and try my luck elsewhere. Connecticut procedures seem to be even
stricter, no registration without CT driver's licence at all, but the
plan is to travel down the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Miami by
September 25th. Does anybody happen to know a particularly "easy"
state along the way or has any other advice?

Regards
Peter