Honda cb400/4

[Samz]

1975 red Honda CB400/4. Reg.MVY683P.  1st registered 01/08/1975 in York.
Where is it now? Still alive?  Any info appreciated.

[Samz]

So having posted this several years ago and not received one comment, I have just realised I listed the wrong number.    Should have been  MVY678P.  I went on the DVLA website to be informed that number is on a  white 1975 Vauxhall!     Strange.  So any how, my apologies.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

DVLA do sometimes re-issue registration numbers after a vehicle has been scrapped so I think the bike has gone to that graveyard in the sky.

My understanding is that you can't transfer a number from a bike onto a car so not likely to be a Cherrished Transfer, the rules changed in the 1970's when a Labour Government tried to stop such transfers.

[AshimotoK0]

So having posted this several years ago and not received one comment, I have just realised I listed the wrong number.    Should have been  MVY678P.  I went on the DVLA website to be informed that number is on a  white 1975 Vauxhall!     Strange.  So any how, my apologies.

I don't think that vehicle has adopted your reg number and therefore think your recollection of the exact number is incorrect. The car with reg.  MVY678P last V5 change was in 1981. I would have another think about the reg. number. A lot of 400F's are still out there lurking. They were so much loved that I don't think owners could bear to scrap them....so don't give up hope.

[Orcade-Ian]

Ted, there was a time when you couldn't swap numbers between car and bike or vice versa but even that has changed - I have recently put the number from my GoldWing onto the Jag.  Did DVLA ever re-issue a scrapped number?, I always thought not.

Ian

[Deano400]

Possibility?

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[Samz]

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THATS IT!
 This morning I dug out the old invoice again. It was hand written and on closer inspection the 8 was indeed a 3. I went on the DVLA website and got the same info as you posted obviously.  Still no sign of it though so I’ll presume it was scrapped.  :'(
 Thanks for all the replies.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Ted, there was a time when you couldn't swap numbers between car and bike or vice versa but even that has changed - I have recently put the number from my GoldWing onto the Jag.  Did DVLA ever re-issue a scrapped number?, I always thought not.

Ian

I'm sure you are right Ian it's all changed now, back in the early 1960's a local firm in Rocester (JCB) not as well known back then purchased and registered 25 Mopeds with the numbers JCB1 up to around JCB 25 buying  from a dealer in the County that issued the JCB letters to transfter the numbers onto JCB Company Cars. Back in the day most of the two digit numbers were issued to the Local Councils and used on buses etc.

[Nurse Julie]

In 1990 I registered my brand new CBR600 with a personal reg number I had purchased from DVLA and 2 years later transfered it onto a car.

[Laverda Dave]

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THATS IT!
 This morning I dug out the old invoice again. It was hand written and on closer inspection the 8 was indeed a 3. I went on the DVLA website and got the same info as you posted obviously.  Still no sign of it though so I’ll presume it was scrapped.  :'(
 Thanks for all the replies.

Only a 7 year lifespan, it must have been crashed at some point and scrapped. I only buy a bike when its over 20 years old and fully run-in!

[Nurse Julie]

LEV182P
400/4, varnish blue, sold through Pughs Auction last year.
Just helping an acquaintance to try and locate it's whereabouts.

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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

It might be dud information but I've seen a FB post that you can fill in a DVLA form 888 with your contact details and it will be sent to the current keeper who has no obligation to respond

[Nurse Julie]

It might be dud information but I've seen a FB post that you can fill in a DVLA form 888 with your contact details and it will be sent to the current keeper who has no obligation to respond

Don't think that can happen these days Ted due to data protection etc. I know it was possible until about 10-15 years ago. When the previous owners name and address were no longer put on V5 due to data protection, that request was abolished. You can still get it if there are exceptional circumstances, like in an accident etc.

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[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I failed when I tried on my 400/4 PO application.
The data Protection Act prevented me from being told by the police who caused our house fire in 2017.
It seems to protect everyone except the innocent, even my house insurers were unable to make an abbrogated claim after a Crown Court application for disclosure.

[Bryanj]

Many years ago i was driving a firms escort van to JCB to collect some new hydraulic breakers for the hire firm i worked for.
I was passed by a "posh" car with a JCB reg going at seed then about 5 miles later passed it parked in a ditch!