Practically Classics Forum

One of the Aforementioned Series Landies keeping my RR company in Tesco the other morning

There's a V12 E Type in the garage near the shop at the moment. There is also the resident Alfa Spider, with the engine out, that has been sat there for years (I think the owner is hoping that the engine will repair itself....or that the owner of the garage will take pity on him).

TerryG wrote:One of the Aforementioned Series Landies keeping my RR company in Tesco the other morning ...

Wow, that Land Rover's doing a great job of pretending to be an early '60s example . I'd love to be the person called upon to do the test on that and then I'd also love to be the one who seizes the vehicle pending the VOSA enquiry that's likely to end with its being allotted a Q.
Bleedin' vehicle identity cheats, grr.... July 1962 my backside! [/rant over ]

I know a man who bought a 1971 range rover that was ROTTEN, he fixed the chassis and dropped the body from a 1993 on it. It is a bit of a cheat but if you have enough points then it's not a problem.

On a seperate chassis vehicle the body counts for nothing when determining identity and after 50 odd years of usually hard work very few have the original mechanicals or chassis components ( or even the chassis come to that) I don't know how anyone would determine it's identity or even really be able to question it.

It's the same car, 4 new bodies, 6 new engines and 2 new chassis's Del

kstrutt1 wrote:On a seperate chassis vehicle the body counts for nothing when determining identity and after 50 odd years of usually hard work very few have the original mechanicals or chassis components ( or even the chassis come to that) I don't know how anyone would determine it's identity or even really be able to question it.

Who said anything about the body though? Even so, it too has a points value and Land Rovers are very much on VOSA's radar just now, as is anything else where the correct age governs whether there's a cost for the VED.

Sitting on the train today going from East Croydon to London Bridge. Just before we went through Forest Hill station I noticed a gold coloured Sunbeam Rapier fastback - not seen one for ages.

This appears at our office on the outskirts of Guildford every day to deliver our lunch

That's just lovely. Sadly, our sarnie van at work is some bland Peugeot thing from the caterers' fleet of a dozen similar, but at least the driver has a Dixie horn to announce the coming of lunch.