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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 18/11/2021 : 17:55:08
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If there are three possibilities - tax, SORN or scrap - isn’t the DVLA's position ternary rather than binary? 
Simon J
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LewPalmer
USA
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Posted - 18/11/2021 : 18:27:25
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Almost worse than breaking up a classic vehicle is a practice of removing perfectly good parts from a car and then replacing them with poor condition parts and then reselling the good bits, sometimes to the buyer of the car. I've seen it happen.
Lew Palmer
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Blithe Spirit
United Kingdom
188 Posts |
Posted - 19/11/2021 : 09:09:09
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There is now another dimension to this. It is illegal for anyone other than in a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility to dismantle a vehicle for scrap or dispersal of its parts. I don't believe that the absence of a V5c changes the car's status, as the law is for environmental protection, however misguided. And lastly, if a viable car is broken, and another created from some or all of its parts, the VSCC will blacklist the identity of that original car.
So, there should be enough hurdles, both legal and moral to protect our beloved cars' histories; makes special building more difficult though.
Happy motoring,
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merlinart
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
Posted - 19/11/2021 : 10:17:54
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Originally posted by Blithe Spirit
There is now another dimension to this. It is illegal for anyone other than in a licensed Authorised Treatment Facility to dismantle a vehicle for scrap or dispersal of its parts. I don't believe that the absence of a V5c changes the car's status, as the law is for environmental protection, however misguided. And lastly, if a viable car is broken, and another created from some or all of its parts, the VSCC will blacklist the identity of that original car.
So, there should be enough hurdles, both legal and moral to protect our beloved cars' histories; makes special building more difficult though.
Happy motoring,
Well the trouble with coupling the morality issue (highly subjective/objective, and open to interpretation), and the issue of building specials, is basically, down to the individual...if an owner no longer likes the bodywork of his car...he is entitled is he not, to remove it and build a special...why not. This must have happened in it's day, indeed one could order a rolling chassis in some instances. I hear this dilemma/argument on the Austin Seven forum too...some loathe the proliferation of as they call them the "Ulsteroid", that is a nice EA Sports/Ulster type body mounted on to a Ruby chassis. I have one of these myself partially in build, and even worse, a non standard engine! Hell's teeth!!
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