SS100 - Carisma Century Kit Car

[Alfred Pina]

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1417206

This one needs a bit of work as mentioned previously, but nothing major. Couple of seals, good polish and protect, plus some minor tidying.

[Steve Dean]

Hi Guys ...... I have been following this thread with interest. I am hearing stories through the trade that there is something going on with the DVLA with regard to Suffolk SS100 Jaguars. It appears to revolve around the cars being registered as Jaguars and not Suffolk replicas. I've heard stories that people have been instructed to submit their cars for an IVA.

As you all probably all know, Jaguar took legal action against Suffolk which is why they went out of business.

I would be nice to know the facts about this and where it puts the owners of other Jaguar replicas, i.e. SS100, C Type, D type.
(This of course would only affect cars NOT put through an IVA and registered properly).

[Alfred Pina]

It shouldn't matter. JLR only stop further production of vehicles. They don't remove existing vehicles

[Equus]

Alfred Pina said:

It shouldn't matter. JLR only stop further production of vehicles. They don't remove existing vehicles

The suggestion from Steve Dean's post is that the DVLA (possibly at Jaguar's instigation?) are going after any Suffolk Jaguar that has been mis-registered as a 'rebody' of an existing Jaguar, however, which may well be a large percentage of them... I never understood how the Suffolk could pass IVA, so perhaps this could explain it?

Google throws up THIS

which said:

The Suffolk Sportscars website stated that ‘cars built for use on the UK roads must first pass an IVA test’. But the majority of the 200 or so cars that stayed in the UK were registered using the V5C of the donor car and had only a standard MoT prior to road use. A number of cars have had the V5 withdrawn until an IVA test has been passed. Suffolk Classic Services charge circa £7,000 to prepare and submit a car for testing.

I assume that the 'preparation' amounts to something similar to the process that Westfield use to gain IVA approval on the Eleven, which has always looked dodgy enough from my perspective to discourage me from purchasing one.

Without Suffolk's support, I suspect that this process could become prohibitively expensive and difficult, which would leave cars like THIS ONE, lovely as it is, essentially worthless.

[sezmgf]

Hi Tim and all,

Sorry for the long silence.... how's your build coming Tim?

I've been slowly resurrecting this little monster which has now spread out over a double garage and garden shed as I try and get the panels sorted out! I have had to sand back to the gel-coat / laminate to get rid of the micro-bubbles and then build up with four layers of epoxy, sand it smooth and prep for paint.... I now officially hate sanding body panels!

Chassis, engine and electrics are now all done so just have to knuckle down to get the panels finished and put back. I was seriously tempted to change the bonnet to include folding side panels as its really hard to access things on the V6 engine, its such a tight fit, but the amount of work was too daunting.

I need to get this done as I've acquired a 1934 BSA trike that needs to get my attention!

Regards

David