18-10-2019, 03:54 PM
(18-10-2019, 03:29 PM)Ivor Hawkins Wrote: Jamie, at risk of teaching grandmother...are you aware of the DVLA points system in order to use your original V5 and retain the registration number?
You need to have 8 points to retain the original number and five of those points relate to the original body, so if your car was originally a saloon and building a sports style body, you have what the DVLA call a radically altered vehicle and if you are not careful, you’ll end up with a “Q” plate.
Alternatively you can go the reconstructed classic vehicle route, there’s a lot of info on the DVLA web site, if you haven’t looked already.
The 5 points for the original body style/type only apply to monocoque based cars. For Austin Sevens and other separate chassis cars the body has zero points. However the unmodified chassis would carry the 5 points in this case. The DVLA rules for re-bodied cars are outlined in the thread I linked to in post #3