Registering a car from the chassis plate.

[Skyedriver]

Hi, age old problem, I realise it's been asked before, quite a few times on the Kit Car forum but this is a standard production car.

A friend is looking at a car that has been off the road for some time. It's in OK condition, useable with some work, it has the original chassis plate but the various documents, log book or whatever it came with at the time have been lost, along with the number plates although it has been on the road at some point.
What are the options for getting a new V5 etc and recovering the old reg? Q plate not an option.
Thanks

[aeropilot]

Fill in a V62(?) form and DVLA will do a VIN search......likely reg number has been sold (if a pre- 63/4 era car) but if it was on the road since DVLA computerisation in the 80's then chances are they'll get a new allocated number......

If its been off the road since pre-V5 forms, then might be a longer process??

[Turbobanana]

It's probably changed now, but many years back (1990s) I was a sales exec at a Peugeot dealership. One day a guy brought in a Citroen XM for some work, and promptly disappeared off the face of the earth.

Said XM was parked in the yard for about a year, gathering moss. One day a guy comes in (known to us, not the RK) and asks if he can buy it as a quirky project. We decided that if he could apply for - and receive - a V5 from DVLA he could have it.

He applied, and was successful. I believe DVLA conducted searches to see if they could trace the RK, and if they couldn't they'd issue a new V5 to whoever claimed the car.

Might be worth a go.

[Skyedriver]

Thanks, problem seems to be that it hasn't a registration on the car (well it has but I have a feeling it's had a reg swop with a similar car owned by the same person, so strictly at the moment a "ringer" which he wouldn't want to be involved with) and the V62 form required the correct reg. not the implanted one.

Beginning to suggest he gets a very long barge pole.

[aeropilot]

Turbobanana said:

It's probably changed now, but many years back (1990s) I was a sales exec at a Peugeot dealership. One day a guy brought in a Citroen XM for some work, and promptly disappeared off the face of the earth.

Said XM was parked in the yard for about a year, gathering moss. One day a guy comes in (known to us, not the RK) and asks if he can buy it as a quirky project. We decided that if he could apply for - and receive - a V5 from DVLA he could have it.

He applied, and was successful. I believe DVLA conducted searches to see if they could trace the RK, and if they couldn't they'd issue a new V5 to whoever claimed the car.

That's how bought my Escort Twin Cam back in 1985......car had come in 3 years earlier for an engine rebuild, engine/box was removed for sorting......but owner disappeared off the face of the earth, and after repeated failure to contact, to talk through engine build cost without reply and given storage charges and time spent, workshop were able to sell car, and I had letter from garage as explanation, and send that and V5 application off to DVLA and got a V5 back a couple of months later.

[Skyedriver]

The plot thickens, apparently there is note of the "other" reg no. so in theory now the V62 can be completed.
The seller has both regs, one V5, both chassis plates so the correct plate can be attached to the car and the V5 applied for.
Also receipts from the previous seller.

Thanks everyone. Barge pole still at the ready though

Edited by Skyedriver on Friday 10th May 17:24