Help!! Changing of registration year on a kit car?

[dalla]

Hi

My name is Dennis and i live in Denmark. I've been thinking of buying a super seven style kit car, maybe a Sylva striker with a motorcycle engine. I read an article about a danish guy who imported a Stuart Taylor Cobra replica to Denmark, and he got it registred in UK as a 1963 or something like that. This is ideal in Denmark, as it will save you a lot in registration taxes, and it will only have to be inspected every eight year (a test like the SVA). So my question is if it is possible to-re registrate, for instance an Sylva Striker as an older car in the UK and then import it to Denmark?

Hope you can help
Dennis

Edited by dalla on Thursday 5th April 20:47

[Furyblade_Lee]

Doubt it if it already has a log book. You would have to SVA it again with an old log book. You can transfer old number plates to a car but the log book will not change the date of registration.

[dalla]

Cheers mate. Any idea on how i could get hold on an old log book? Does the log book have to state that it is for instance an Sylve Striker or is it suficient that it says Super seven or some thing like that?

[ferg]

For a start, unless I'm very much mistaken, what you are suggesting is ILLEGAL.

Secondly, to register a car as 1963 you need a V5 from a car that was in current production in 1963, wouldn't you??

Which bits of the Sriker are you suggesting are 1963 vintage?

Or have I missed the point (quite possible)?

[dalla]

I was simply asking because i'am from Denmark and don't know the british rules. I've just heard about the guy who got a Cobra registred as an old car. In Denmark registration taxes on new cars is very high. And i would probably be facing 8000£ or more to get a Sylva Striker registred. But if it was registred as an old car it would be a fraction of that. BTW i've seen GT40's for sale which also was registred as a 60'ties somthing.
Hope there is someone who can help.

[ferg]

I think the answer is:

You can't do it.

I know you have anecdotal evidence that people have done it with a Cobra and 'GT40s', but the bottom line is that if you have a CORRECTLY REGISTERED Striker in the UK it will show it's 'Date of first registration' on the Log Book as the date that it passed it's SVA test. As Lee says above, you could try to put it through the SVA with the V5 (log book) of a 1963 car, but EVEN IF they accepted that the car had been built from the vehicle on the V5 they would only give you an 'age-related' plate i.e. registration number dating from 1963 whilst the 'Date of first registration' would say 2007.......

If you were to claim that the car was (perhaps) a 1963 Seven that you had obtained a V5 for and you just swapped registration plates and VIN plate, then that would be 'cloning' I would think and very definately illegal and the sort of thing that chav car thieves get up to.

[Locoblade]

I suspect the way it was done was by using all the parts from an old donor car (maybe an old Cortina / Escort) and despite the chassis change, the registration documents weren't actually changed at all. These days with SVA etc though you can't get away with that.