2CV headlights.

I wasn't aware it was in yet, but I knew it was coming. But it doesn't require IVA either.

It makes enough points from using everything else original in the drive train except the body which is non structural.

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Elder
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So what will the V5C say ?

Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

'Unroadworthy heap of s**te'

Reply to
SteveH

"Bob Sherunckle" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Whatever you want it to say. You only need to change the body type.

I got the 2cv 4x4's V5C changed from "4-dr Saloon" to "4x4 Light Utility", without an SVA etc.

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Adrian

I seemed to have missed that in the past - the 2CV 4x4. Please elaborate for those of use who weren't watching.

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Bob Sherunckle

"Bob Sherunckle" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

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Reply to
Adrian

Pick some humorous like "Grave Diggers revenge", or "Coffin Dodger" Mk1. And that is all it needs to say.

Reply to
Elder

Yet the MOT will say otherwise.

But it would make interesting reading when you take your freshly registered "Unroadworthy heap of s**te" MK1 to be MOT'd on the chassis number prior to issuance of reg number plate.

Reply to
Elder

Why would you have to be issued with a new reg number? Wouldn't the chassis retain the reg number of the Kitten?

Reply to
Homer

Usually yes, but not always. You are registering a "Special" so it not strictly the same vehicle. It is a new vehicle based on an existing one. Sometimes they get new age related, sometimes they keep the old one, sometimes they get issued with a Q. Depends on the local DVLA office you use, and the VIC inspector.

The number of seats needs changing if necessary, the body style needs changing if necessary. It effectively gets a new V5C for the new car.

Of course, until it gets changed, once registered, apart from the chassis, what you swap is upto you as long as you inform DVLA about engine number/capacity/fuel type changes and your insurance about everything else. Can't see that being an insurance issue though. Can they prove the original spec of MK1 Deadly Canard, or even if you thought you could get away with it, a Spagthorpe Bolognia.

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Elder

"Homer" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Indeed. If the identity is retained, so's the plate. If the car needs an SVA etc, then a new (Q) plate will be issued.

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Adrian

Apparently not always. Especially if the chassis is from a vehicle that has slipped off the DVLA radar (maybe the V5 was never swapped for a V5C but is sufficient for an identity check) and the original plate has been "sold" by them to someone else. Then another age related plate can be issued, some older cars didn't have stamped chassis numbers, just a plate like on the body that can get lost, so a new chassis number can be issued without need for an SVA (some reliants before a certain date suffered this apparently) by the DVLA, that must be stamped into the chassis before the MOT can be completed on the chassis number.

But, even if the original number is retained, the car can't use it until registered and to be it needs to be MOT'd on the chassis number. Then you can get a V5C, then you can buy a plate because you have the documents. It is just because the DVLA don't have a record of that plate being issued against a "Studley Manhood" Mk1, as it currently according to their records is on a 1975 Reliant Kitten. As soon as the paper work record is as being on the "Studley Manhood" you can take the paper work to the motorfactors.

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Elder

Elder gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

It wouldn't need an SVA if it'd been UK registered before - it'd just get an age-related plate.

SVA is only relevant to imports

Reply to
Adrian

If I might add.

I know a good handfull of people who have built all new cars but with used engines who have had new plates. There's always a degree of local interpretation.

Reply to
Bob Sherunckle

I think it all falls down to the DVLA not knowing exactley how it's own rules work. But that happens in any organisation that has national power but local autonamy. Combinations of confusion, complication, interpration, and a little glorious dictator can make the easiest to understand rules get a little distorted.

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Elder

lol

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Vamp

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