Registering a French registered car without paperwork

[Dentman308]

A friend inherited his deceased brothers 1972 Porsche 911.

It has a french registration ( 911 QH 74) but all the paperwork has been lost. It has been languishng in my friends garage for several years, it does not have an MOT. But with some work I am sure we could get one.

From a quick look at the requirements for the Carte Grise, i dont think we have any chance of getting a copy but i would be overjoyed to be corrected.

Failing that can we register it in the UK ?

[lukeharding]

Going off of my experience of registering an old Range Rover from France...we didn't need the Carte Grise to get a NOVA number if I remember rightly (there wasn't much left as it was a one owner car) and you have all the numbers on the car that would be needed to register it with the DVLA, though technically it would still be registered in France too so I don't know how that works. It might be worth trying to submit to the DVLA to see what happens or contacting both the DVLA and its French counterpart to see what can be done to get a copy of the paperwork.

[TooMany2cvs]

Dentman308 said:

Failing that can we register it in the UK ?

Yep, easily.

Just get proof of the age from Porsche or a Porsche club, and go through the usual V55/5 registration process.

lukeharding said:

though technically it would still be registered in France too so I don't know how that works.

Just the same as if you scrap a car and forget to tell DVLA.

lukeharding said:

It might be worth trying to submit to the DVLA to see what happens or contacting both the DVLA and its French counterpart to see what can be done to get a copy of the paperwork.

Because it's on an old-style registration, it's not the national system, but the departmental - 74 is Haute Savoie.

BTW, that's a late 1975 issued plate, so it lived elsewhere in France for the first three years.
http://plaque.free.fr/f_1970s.html

Edited by TooMany2cvs on Wednesday 8th November 11:48