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Jan 23, 2010 18:29:20 GMT
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I often see threads on various websites about people who have rescued cars from scrapyards. I was under the impression that once a car had been officially scrapped there was no way back and it could never be re-registered.
Are scrapyard rescued cars ones which were never declared scrapped, or is there some way of re-registering them, other than just sticking another cars I.D on it?
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purplevanman
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Jan 23, 2010 18:59:52 GMT
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depends on the yard, if the paperwork department is slow then no problem. Other than that I don't know  |
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Jan 23, 2010 19:01:02 GMT
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if a certificate of destruction has been issued then its had it. If not then you can buy it and put it back on the road
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will
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Jan 23, 2010 19:04:50 GMT
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if a certificate of destruction has been issued then its had it. If not then you can buy it and put it back on the road Even if the v5 has been signed off scrapped? |
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Jan 23, 2010 19:22:39 GMT
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so i was told, yes  i enquired about it a few years back to buy a charde gtti from a yard for 150 quid, i asked the guy to hold it, got all the info i needed, went back with the readies and he had sold the engine, box and brakes off it |
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will
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Jan 23, 2010 19:30:56 GMT
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Money talks I guess  I have a bike frame and a buyer but the PO has sent of the v5 as scrapped, thought he was doing me a favor. Mind you probably would only be worth the £25 the dvla would want for a new v5. |
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Jan 23, 2010 19:44:19 GMT
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That's right, even if it's been declared scrapped, it can still be brought back. as long as there is no destruction order on it. that's not hearsay either, I did it And I'm pretty sure I got round the V5 too and had one sent to me. And it had 8 months mot as well. |
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will
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Jan 23, 2010 19:59:07 GMT
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Nice one SS |
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Jan 23, 2010 20:02:03 GMT
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I 'think' the scrapped marker stays on the reg no, but a chassis can be re-reg on a Q?
* I could be making this up *
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Jan 23, 2010 21:34:35 GMT
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The main reason I asked was because I recently went to a small scrapyard and it had quite a few classics in it, such as a 2cv, two morris minors, some beetles, a hillman imp, and even a modern TVR, and I thought it was a shame to see them scrapped.
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Jan 23, 2010 21:50:00 GMT
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I 'think' the scrapped marker stays on the reg no, but a chassis can be re-reg on a Q? * I could be making this up * It does and it doesn't. It can be removed by the DVA, when they pull their act together. Three months or so afterwards I got pulled and Mr Yes Officer Sir told me I'd been pulled as there was still a scrapped marker on the car... Cleared eventually though. |
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That's right, even if it's been declared scrapped, it can still be brought back. as long as there is no destruction order on it. that's not hearsay either, I did it And I'm pretty sure I got round the V5 too and had one sent to me. And it had 8 months mot as well. So if it's scrapped , how is the destruction order actually enforced? - as to me it seems the same thing And i found this- which would appear to contradict your experience "Amazingly, a Hyundai dealer at Gatwick recently saved a 36,000-mile, museum-quality 1958 Morris Minor from the crusher (the DVLA won't descrap it so it can't be used on the road", |
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You can either have a destruction notice issued on a car, like an insurance cat B for instance, or a convicted crim's car, or scrappage trade-in; OR, you can have you car towed in to the scrapyard or have it hiabbed out of your drive, and fill in and send away the V5 as scrapped.
With the notice, you cant come back, and as this is what happens with scrappage cars, you cant save them when they're in the yard. With the V5 method, you just apply for it again, and it goes back OTR.
I don't know if it's possible to 'contradict' my experience either btw - I mean, the car has been back OTR for four years, continuously taxed, sold twice and it's currently sitting in my yard with 9 months MOT...
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this thread has made me unhappy due to the lack of pics.
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