Laws around scrapped cars?

[charles97]

Basically as the title suggests, what laws are there around scrapped cars? For instance a Morris Minor Traveller is in a scrapyard and has no structural damage are there anyways of getting it back on the road? If a vehicle has not been issued with a certificate of destruction but is in the scrapyard does that make it any easier to get back on the road? If a vehicle is in a breakers yard, rather than a scrapyard can they be recommissioned?

[mrlivered]

My understanding is that if it hasn't had a CoD issued, and it's not a Cat D writeoff or anything obviously, then its mere presence in a scrapyard isn't relevant.

I have in the past bought cars from the scrappy, after they got taken in but were judged to be too good to be crushed.

Unfortunately the local scrappy where I live now is far less amenable to old car fans who want to poke through what they've got and make offers etc. 'elf and safety innit.

[120y]

It used to be that scrapyards would sometimes sell cars brought in for scrap but I don't know anymore? because the last time I scrapped a car, was a volkswagon Passat I drove it in and I had to sighn the logbook to say the scrapyard had taken it.
maybe you can still buy scrap cars and get a v5, but with the change in government rules it may be harder.

[mrlivered]

After reading that^ I'm worried that I might have given out of date information. Very sorry if so... I'd be glad to know.

[charles97]

Well your information may still be right as one I passed the other day had a p4 with a for sale sign propped up against it...
And luckily the scrapyard near me often gets old stock and allows people to have a poke round.

[Deleted]

It really depends on the current legal state of the vehicle. It may need a VIC check to get it back on the road or you may be lucky and just have to apply for the logbook. The best thing is to check out the car first then get in touch with the DVLA (pity they have closed most of the offices though )

The website has some good info:
www.gov.uk/browse/driving/number-plate

[popuptoaster]

Scrap yard owners are not daft, nor sentimental usually, you will be very unlikely to get it "cheap" save up and buy a good one.

[120y]

One thing that may be of interest regarding abandoned cars, a few years ago where I was working a Datsun 160B got dumped in our car park.
It sat there for a while till my boss at the time got p***ed off with it and called police.
They came down told him to call a scrap yard have it removed so I said can I take it, boss said yes just move it.
I called DVLA after I few weeks I got a V5 issued for it, had to explain how I came by the car.

[dodgerover]

If a COD has been issued or Destruction notice then you've got no chance of getting it out of the yard in one piece, they can loose there operators licence and get into a whole world of pain, there was the case of VOSA pulling 2 built bangers on the way out of a yard to the track COD's had been issued for both cars and it caused them loads of grief.

If its been written off its not a problem.

[mattfletcher]

Best thing to do is call DVLA with the chassis number and reg of vehicle and ask them. I found a Landrover Defender in the scrap, it was parked in his for sale area with " SPARES ONLY £600". Took my mate over (Landrover Enthusiast). He took the chassis number because thats all it had, then traced a reg through a Landrover dealer, then phoned DVLA, said it was still registered, so he bought it. Applied for a log book and came back with two previous keepers. Hes half way through a restoration on it now.

[charles97]

Actually just remembered a yard that tried for months to sell an immaculate BMW E24 but next time I went it had a Saab 93 on its roof...
So must be able to sell cars?