Apply for V5 - Unknown Registration Number

[mattydoh]

I've just bought an ex-race Peugeot 205 GTI that I want to use as a stage rally car, which I need to get it road registered for. I am pretty sure it is a converted road car rather than built from the ground up as a race car, meaning it will once have had a registration number. The VIN number is still present and the MSA Logbook says it's a 1987 car.

I am thinking of sending the V62 with "Unknown" in the registration number box, I was just wondering if anyone on here had tried something like this before?

[Butter Face]

Do an HPI on the VIN?

PM me it if you want me to try.

[mattydoh]

Butter Face said:

Do an HPI on the VIN?

PM me it if you want me to try.

I didn't even know you could! Have PM'd you the number. Thanks for your help

[mattydoh]

Just been digging around the Peugeot and found a slightly less mangled VIN number and discovered I have got a digit wrong. I've very cheekily PM'd you the revised number and would appreciate it if you could check

[Butter Face]

Sent you a message back with muchos good news!!!

[onomatopoeia]

Butter Face said:

Do an HPI on the VIN?

I did that on my Davrian a few years ago, which was also lacking a registration number although it had one in the very distant past. It came back with the reg I was expecting, and that the car was "permenantly scrapped" in 1988. Although the one in my garage is definitely the same one pictured in a magazine article about it from circa 1980 (right down to the panels being identically wonky)!