How to find out if a car has MOT

[Stu_1.4]

I've been to look at a car at an extremeley good price.

However, the owner has lost the documents due to moving house.

This set alarm bells ringing, so i had it HPi checked and it was all fine. It just had 7 previous owners.

It has 10 months of tax and the owner assures me it has MOT, but without the logbook or MOT certificate i can't be sure.

So how can i find out how long the MOT is for, or if it actually has it? I looked on the DVLA website, but they require a reference number from the logbook to allow them to send me another certificate.

[Stu_1.4]

geek_in_the_pink said:

Ask the seller where it was MOT.ed and call the garage direct. Personally I'd never buy a car without the V5 though.

The seller didn't MOT it, so he doesn't know where it was done. He just had the certificate then lost it.

[Stu_1.4]

He hasnt had it long and he's selling due to no longer being able to afford to run it.

Its at the sort of price, where i would buy it even without MOT. It would just be useful to know if it did, for a legal reason to know wheter i could drive it back.