You can own a car without registering it or getting plates or insuring it or anything else. What you can’t do is take it on public roads without those things. If you wanna drive it on your personal property then you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but as soon as you put it on a road that the state owns then you gotta meet the state’s conditions to use the road.
Indeed, my grandfather had a Jeep Willys and he never registered and only drove it on his farm.
When he passed away, my dad inherited and looked into making it road legal (ie. registering it) and it was way too expensive to do, so he just kept it in his property and drives it around a back road which is technically private property, we checked with the local PD and it’s allowed
You can own a car without registering it or getting plates or insuring it or anything else. What you can’t do is take it on public roads without those things. If you wanna drive it on your personal property then you can do pretty much whatever you want with it, but as soon as you put it on a road that the state owns then you gotta meet the state’s conditions to use the road.
Indeed, my grandfather had a Jeep Willys and he never registered and only drove it on his farm. When he passed away, my dad inherited and looked into making it road legal (ie. registering it) and it was way too expensive to do, so he just kept it in his property and drives it around a back road which is technically private property, we checked with the local PD and it’s allowed