[barnstuf]

My nephew did the reverse of what you plan, about 35 years ago. He took his Massachusetts license plates with him to England. He bought a well used Ford Popular in England, phoned his insurance agent in Massachusetts who registered the car in USA for him and airmailed him the registration. He spent an entire year in Europe and drove in every country except he could not get admittance to Russia. He ended up in Perugia Italy where he spent 3 months in a college there. He booked passage for he and the car on a freighter, the car sitting on the deck with a dismantled motorcycle he bought hiding in the back seat. He arrived inNew York City, car unloaded from freighter and he drove it home. HE told me that if he had not brought the car home he would have had to go to England and sell it there.
This is a true story from out of the past. An interesting sideline to this story is that his Massachusetts plate was a vanity with his name. He was stopped several times by police who had never seen a vanity license plate, and very simply were curious.