Tax exempt

If you are building a hybrid, it's done on a points system for each component, if they add up to enough, you keep the reg, if not, its a Q plate. If restoring an existing vehicle on a new chassis you can transfer the chassis number. Thats a very simplistic version, the DVLA website will tell you all. There are quite a few iffy 'tax free' motors out there so be careful.

Sean

Thanks that tells me all i need to know :-)

In message , snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com writes

How does anyone tell with series 2 and 3 vehicles though? We have a scrap series 2 that has its original log book but the parts are from all over the place, done in all innocence over the years apparently.. I thought the points system was to prevent cut and shut cars being made up from 2 (or more) crashed cars and it all resulting in a dangerous unsafe vehicle. Doesn't really apply with a Landrover does it?

It's the details on the log book that define the vehicles age, and as long as you don't change the fundamental design of the vehicle adding anything is ok.

Not realy - cut and shut is welding two identical vehicles together, thus producing a potentially unsafe vehcile - the points system does not cover this.

The points system is to prevent, in it's simplest form, someone buying a brand new 90 and transferring a 1960 Series II number to it, and then claiming it is a Series II modified to modern standards by replacing everything and therefore making it tax free. I beleieve it was orignialy thought necessary due to the activities of the kit car boys who were doing simlar things.

Richard