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> In message <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] writes
> >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.
> >
>
> 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..
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.
> 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?
>
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
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