Help police have seized my pride and joy

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Lh90tdi said:
Thanks for everyone's comments and input, just so people are aware I will explain what I did,
I first bought a 1988 rotten 90 csw
I then purchased a genuine tdci chassis from a company on eBay that specialises in genuine chassis (year of manufacture unsure as it had no Id)
I then removed the mounts and fitted 300tdi mounts to suit what engine I planned to use, then sent it off to be galvanised.
Then I bought a rolled 1999 CAT B which I used both axles and rear tub from sold the other parts that could be salvaged the chassis then was cut up and scrapped as it was just as rotten as my 1988.
After buying various parts from shows and eBay and breakers I built up my 90 and put it back on the road using the 1988 registration.
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Let me get this right, given that it's Saturday night and I've had a few beers.... you bought Landy no.1, built a completely different vehicle, let's call it Landy no.2, and registered it as Landy no.1, thereby implying that Landy no.1 was still on the road? I think I'd have taken some advice from DVLA, police or someone before doing that.

Apart from that though, why should a vehicle owner have to prove he hasn't done something wrong? Isn't it up to the police to prove he has?
 
wattfield said:
Let me get this right, given that it's Saturday night and I've had a few beers.... you bought Landy no.1, built a completely different vehicle, let's call it Landy no.2, and registered it as Landy no.1, thereby implying that Landy no.1 was still on the road? I think I'd have taken some advice from DVLA, police or someone before doing that.

Apart from that though, why should a vehicle owner have to prove he hasn't done something wrong? Isn't it up to the police to prove he has?
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yes,whether vehicle needs a new registration is one thing the the parts are his unless proven stolen
 
wattfield said:
Let me get this right, given that it's Saturday night and I've had a few beers.... you bought Landy no.1, built a completely different vehicle, let's call it Landy no.2, and registered it as Landy no.1, thereby implying that Landy no.1 was still on the road? I think I'd have taken some advice from DVLA, police or someone before doing that.

Apart from that though, why should a vehicle owner have to prove he hasn't done something wrong? Isn't it up to the police to prove he has?
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I don't think it was done to look like no1 was still on the road, it was done to keep no1 on the road. Replace the knackered bits, just so happened that was 99% of the vehicle. I can see how this could easily happen though.

Also agree with that last bit, it's innocent UNLESS proven guilty.
 
jamesmartin said:
yes,whether vehicle needs a new registration is one thing the the parts are his unless proven stolen
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Indeed. Two different issues = I've no doubt the vehicle is his own, and it should be up to the police to prove otherwise, which obviously they won't. As for the registration issue, I think he made a silly mistake,but I don't think he (you, OP!) should suffer for it - just to be told the correct way to properly register his vehicle should suffice.
And to be told not to be such a silly boy in future! ;)
 
Yes my intention was to keep my 1988 alive and save it from the crusher, it was just a bit worse than I first thought and the further I got into it the more rust I found!
 
Dan_Trials said:
I don't think it was done to look like no1 was still on the road, it was done to keep no1 on the road. Replace the knackered bits, just so happened that was 99% of the vehicle. I can see how this could easily happen though.

Also agree with that last bit, it's innocent UNLESS proven guilty.
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It's a strange situation when you can replace every single part of a vehicle at the same time, except the V5, and still call it the same vehicle! Mind you, is that any different from gradually replacing bits as they break or wear out over 20 or 30 years?
I'm too close to drunk to figure this out!
 
wattfield said:
It's a strange situation when you can replace every single part of a vehicle at the same time, except the V5, and still call it the same vehicle! Mind you, is that any different from gradually replacing bits as they break or wear out over 20 or 30 years?
I'm too close to drunk to figure this out!
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not a lot different
 
A friend of mine did a similar thing to a classic mini and replaced the complete shell, along with 99% of all the other parts and he had no issues. I bet there are 100s of other land rovers on the road that have had the same rebuild/restoration as mine all I can do is sit tight and wait for them to decide what's what!
 
I have to say, there's very little of my Series 2a that's original, I think it just scrapes by on points though - the chassis is (was!) new, and galvanised, but was a pattern part identical to the original. The engine's a 90/110 2.5 petrol, the gearbox is Series 3.
My Defender has a galvanised chassis, a direct replacement for the original, but everything else is original,or replaced like for like at some point in time.
 
wattfield said:
It's a strange situation when you can replace every single part of a vehicle at the same time, except the V5, and still call it the same vehicle! Mind you, is that any different from gradually replacing bits as they break or wear out over 20 or 30 years?
I'm too close to drunk to figure this out!
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That's basically exactly what I said about 5 pages ago!
 
wattfield said:
Eh?
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