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colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

I noticed that a thread I started on a different subject had evolved into a disussion on this. We know the rules but has anyone ever accidentally or otherwise transferred a plate making a car look newer than it actually is?

Inglewood · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:04 pm Post subject:

I dealt with a guy with a 1963 Land Rover last week, showing a 'V' reg for 1980.

Reason, first owner was the MOD. One rule for them.......

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Two of mine that come to mind
A 1957 Karman Beetle on an 'F' reg
A 1953 Beetle on an 'E' reg
My friends 1954 Beetle was also an 'E' reg

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

I have never transferred a registration but as I said on another thread I had a 54 Hereford on a B plate....sold it.
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colwyn500 · Joined: 21 Oct 2012 Posts: 1745 Location: Nairn, Scotland

It's pretty obvious that whatever the rules, we can refute the fact that you can't have a car with a later plate...you can.

welshrover · Joined: 09 Aug 2011 Posts: 326

V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

It's not supposed to happen nowadays, but at one time used American cars were always registered the year they came into the country. For example I once owned a 1954 Oldsmobile that was registered as a 1956.

The procedure now is to issue a Q plate unless the date of manufacture can be prooved.

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

American cars didn't have the monopoly.
Vehicles came from other countries as well.

Any imported vehicle, new or old, used to be given a registration relating to the date of registration.
Hence my Beetles, one driven back from Deutchland in 1968, and the other was imported the year before, not by me.

Military vehicles also got the same.
Military vehicles are not registered, even now, on the UK road licence system.

Imports and ex Military are not re-registered as they don't have a UK registration.

Another question, do imported older vehicles get a Q plate or a different reg these days.

ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4276 Location: South Cheshire

mikeC · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 11:11 am Post subject:

And of course DVLA themselves issue numbers later than the car concerned: if you re-register a post-1930 car under the "age-related" scheme, you are issued with a registration with numbers before letters, which of course did not exist before the mid-'fifties Rolling Eyes

MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2727 Location: South Cheshire

As I recall it was around 1981 that the rules changed for imported vehicles getting a new registration, on an X plate. I recall seeing an Audi coupe (type 85) on an N-prefix plate advertised in the Auto Trader, the chap in the advert said he'd explain how it happened to whoever bought it, so there are/were obviously loopholes around.