Another questionable Ebay Kit Car FORD CORTINA

[Steffan]

I really think Ebay is getting seriously popular with improperly registered kit cars. Presumably selling in the summer is easier?

This time the drophead sports car is registered as a FORD CORTINA!!!!!!!!!!

See

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1976-FORD-CORTINA-1600-G...

I would have thought a blind man on a dark night could see this is NOT a FORD CORTINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does it look like a 1970's for door saloon with a boot to you?

Once again this needs properly registering and it will get caught by the Boys in Blue and the DVLA and cost a fortune to sort out.

AVOID!!

[tr7v8]

Yawn and your point is?

[Steffan]

My concern is that the prospective purchasers who are looking at these cars and may have sought such a purchase for years could unknowingly face unaffordable costs in getting the registration of a car corrected, if in fact it is at all possible. A number I have seen have been scrapped as beyond economic repair.

[one eyed mick]

I would think the vehicle in this topic was registered in the days when such things were common place and probably has spent more time in the garage untaxed and unused, so not many if any investigations into it's history have been made .if the vehicle carries a current test cert and is taxed or has been I see no problems . The guy is not trying to pass it off as some do advertising Duttons Haynes roadsters as Caterham or even Lotus 7's ,but as said buyer beware. I do think that E bay juggles things description wise an this can lead to thing being miss described , my thoughts only

[GinG15]

"I would think the vehicle in this topic was registered in the days when such things were common place"


but times change and the laws change..something legal from the past is not legal today.

there was an amnesty period for such kitcars to get them "correctly" registered under the new laws...

baqsically its often only a problem with the documents...but why the new owner (buyer) should go through all the hazzle and risks to get this car properly registered...if its so "easy", why the actual owner does not do it?

especially as a correctly registered car would bring more money!!!


by the way: here another one:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROBIN-HOOD-KIT-CAR-2-0L-...


a robin hood still registered as Triumph

Edited by GinG15 on Monday 4th July 01:31

[Iwantoneofthose]

It's the shouting, oversized, pink text that offends me the most!

[one eyed mick]

GinG15 said:

"I would think the vehicle in this topic was registered in the days when such things were common place"


but times change and the laws change..something legal from the past is not legal today.

there was an amnesty period for such kitcars to get them "correctly" registered under the new laws...

baqsically its often only a problem with the documents...but why the new owner (buyer) should go through all the hazzle and risks to get this car properly registered...if its so "easy", why the actual owner does not do it?

especially as a correctly registered car would bring more money!!!


by the way: here another one:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ROBIN-HOOD-KIT-CAR-2-0L-...


a robin hood still registered as Triumph

Edited by GinG15 on Monday 4th July 01:31

Again lets not blame the car but show people the error of minor misrepresentation nobody is going to be physicaly hurt by a few words on a peice of paper ok their walletmay take abit of a hammering but would you buy a car unseen? .Buyer beware says it all