registering a car that I've owned for 19 years.

[wozza825y]

right, I am  hoping not to be the only numpty to have done this, here we go. Around 19 years ago i bought a car that had been off the road around a decade and started restoring it, i got to the stage were it was all shot blasted repanneled and painted and then put into a barn 14 years ago. I have realised i am never going to finish it so its going to be sold, just one small problem i was digging out the paper work and have realised that i never got around to registering in my name.

Problem one how do i now register it without getting fined by the good old DVLA.

Problem two i have never sorned this car, but i am sure that if a car had been of the road for such a long time it didn't need to be, i am i right ? 

Any advice would be good, i know the old owner he is an old family friend, thanks in advance, NO LAUGHING please.

[welshpug]

as its been that long its possible it was pre electronic database and SORN, so might not even appear on any systems, just do the change of registered keeper and you'll be fine.

[sowen]

Sorn came in late 90's (I think), anything pre-sorn cannot be sorn'd and you are in the clear. Send off for the V5, maybe worth doing a DVLA vehicle enquiry if you're worried it's not on the system?

[dodgerover]

Just send off for the V5 make sure you put the correct date of purchase if it is important to you as they sometimes don't take much notice of what decade you put, I sent off for a logbook for a vehicle we had had for 15 years and it came back fine, then had to send it back to them again to get the date of purchase amended as they had put it 10 years out.

[wozza825y]

Great, thanks for the answers, i will give it a go and let you all know, thanks again. wozza.