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kettle738:
I had the same situation with a CB400f that had been off the road since 1978, it came with just the old style blue and white log book. I took a good quality colour photocopy and sent that off to the DVLA together with an application for a V5C and a covering letter explaining that I was reluctant to send the original in the post as it was my only proof of entitlement to the registration mark, but offering to do so if they insisted.
The upshot was, they wanted the bike to be inspected, which wasn't a problem, the chap who did it barely knew the front from the back of a bike and had no clue where to find the numbers, but he took a few snaps after they were pointed out to him and a short while later a new V5C landed on the mat. They never asked for the old style log book.
Mick.
royhall:
--- Quote from: kettle738 on April 07, 2019, 07:01:46 AM ---
I had the same situation with a CB400f that had been off the road since 1978, it came with just the old style blue and white log book. I took a good quality colour photocopy and sent that off to the DVLA together with an application for a V5C and a covering letter explaining that I was reluctant to send the original in the post as it was my only proof of entitlement to the registration mark, but offering to do so if they insisted.
The upshot was, they wanted the bike to be inspected, which wasn't a problem, the chap who did it barely knew the front from the back of a bike and had no clue where to find the numbers, but he took a few snaps after they were pointed out to him and a short while later a new V5C landed on the mat. They never asked for the old style log book.
Mick.
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Thanks Mick. That's just reinforced my decision to hold off with the registration until the bike is finished. Hard to have a million little pieces inspected. ;D
Orcade-Ian:
We’ve just had to do this with a 93 MG RV8 which had a blue/white old style single sheet V5. Not been on the road since 1999. Unfortunately some clown had signed and dated it in 1999, so where had it been for almost 20 years? Sent off the V5 and got a letter back stating they wanted front, back, left, right pics plus engine bay and a pic of the stamped in VIN number (poorly stamped on a chassis rail in the boot which worried me) Eventually a V5c arrived. Although all numbers matched, the original V5 stated 3500 as engine size where it should be 3950. Needless to say I waited until we had a V5c in Christine’s name before we opened any other cans of worms about the engine. Took a pic of the engine number (almost impossible to access) sent the new V5c off and now all details are correct on yet another V5c. No wonder they need an army of people at DVLA!
So, it would appear best as others have said to wait until the bike is at least looking like a complete machine.
Ian
Btw, forgot to say although it is obviously not mot exempt, all this was done without resorting to an mot. It needed lots of mostly cosmetic work but I was reluctant to start any of that before we had a new V5c in our hands.
royhall:
Maybe I should have tackled this problem before I stripped the bike. The main reason I didn't is because the engine number was missing from what was supposed to be a chain break. I actually think the engine was swapped for a duff unit then they snapped off the engine number part of the casting as there was zero evidence of a chain break and plenty of evidence of extreme engine wear for a 25k engine. So that will be an added problem with registration as it's now got a different engine number. I think an inspection will be required.
Orcade-Ian:
Hi Roy,
I’m not entirely sure they are bothered about the engine number - they didn’t ask for that before issuing the first V5c, only when I wanted the engine size changing did I voluntarily send a pic of the number in case they thought I was up to something.
Ian
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