Police steal Old Skool Mk1 Transit

[Snapper]

https://apple.news/AGVSWTbuEQsmuXCPYrUqCBQ

[Miniliteman]

When we do it it's stealing, when the police does it it's seizing.

[Rally Pack 2000]

The article mentions if it was electric it would be tax exempt. Seems like a job for the boys at Vintage Voltage to me!

[eeb43]

2 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

The article mentions if it was electric it would be tax exempt. Seems like a job for the boys at Vintage Voltage to me!

no hope of it going legally on the road as an electric vehicle it wont pass iva  and it wouldnt be viable due to the costs of getting the batteries certificated

[katana]

If it was a mk1 Tranny - wouldn't it be Tax Exempt by now? 

[Ray]

1 hour ago, katana said:

If it was a mk1 Tranny - wouldn't it be Tax Exempt by now? 

its not actually tax exempt, only MOT exempt, if registered as a historic vehicle, it still has to have road tax, its just the tax is free, but they no longer check insurance when you tax a vehicle, so you can tax it without insurance, but, its actually an offence to have a taxed and un insured vehicle

[Rally Pack 2000]

I was just reading one of those semi fabricated lifestyle articles that said a man was restoring an old car in his own driveway and had the motor out even and his neighbour across the street dobbed him in cause it wasn't taxed or something? Saying that all vehicles on private property needed to be taxed. That didnt sound right to me after all how many barn finds have been buried all these years without anyone paying a cent for their upkeep? Anyone know what that was about?

[katana]

You got it in the first sentance - 'semi fabricated'! A vehicle only requires tax and insurance if KEPT on the HIGHWAY and if used needs MOT as well if appropriate age . . . . . if registered as Historic it doesn't require PAID tax or if declared an MOT either but for use does need insurance. The story is Bo***x ! Whether he was contraviening some local bylaw about working on vehicles in front gardens is another matter - yes, that probably is a bylaw somewhere - the Nimbies do love a good persecution bylaw!

[Rally Pack 2000]

1 hour ago, katana said:

You got it in the first sentance - 'semi fabricated'! A vehicle only requires tax and insurance if KEPT on the HIGHWAY and if used needs MOT as well if appropriate age . . . . . if registered as Historic it doesn't require PAID tax or if declared an MOT either but for use does need insurance. The story is Bo***x ! Whether he was contraviening some local bylaw about working on vehicles in front gardens is another matter - yes, that probably is a bylaw somewhere - the Nimbies do love a good persecution bylaw!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/my-neighbour-fined-200-parking-30102942?_ga=2.161354173.1674600783.1686214538-317019498.1686214541

[Ray]

if i go back in time to when i was a lad, i do vaguely remember my dad telling me that if a car could be rolled onto the road, the vehicle had to be road legal, yes even on a private driveway, unless all 4 wheels were removed, or you built a wall around it so it couldn't be taken out

now, i just took it at the time, as another one of those things he said to stop me putting cars on his drive, as was my want lol, and never really thought any more of it, but his brother was a copper, so could have been something in it, having read the above

 

[Vista]

20 hours ago, eeb43 said:

no hope of it going legally on the road as an electric vehicle it wont pass iva  and it wouldnt be viable due to the costs of getting the batteries certificated

Though that's not actually true.

However wrong / sinful think it is, there are many electric conversions of classic cars legally driving around on our roads and the briefest of Internet searches finds companies dedicated to offering this conversion service. If it wasn't possible, then there'd be no market for offering the service.

[eeb43]

1 hour ago, Vista said:

Though that's not actually true.

However wrong / sinful think it is, there are many electric conversions of classic cars legally driving around on our roads and the briefest of Internet searches finds companies dedicated to offering this conversion service. If it wasn't possible, then there'd be no market for offering the service.

possible yes 6.5k to have each battery pack tested not viable!

[eeb43]

dvla wont change to electric without an iva pass they may have in the past

[eeb43]

there used to be an exemption from something being taxed if used as a mobile billboard no idea if its still valid though

[katana]

10 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/my-neighbour-fined-200-parking-30102942?_ga=2.161354173.1674600783.1686214538-317019498.1686214541

It's an American story - recycled in a UK tabloid - explains a lot!

[Rally Pack 2000]

10 hours ago, katana said:

It's an American story - recycled in a UK tabloid - explains a lot!

See there you go at no point did I feel it was set in the USA only that it was an American car. Still they have fields of abandoned cars like there's no tomorrow so saying that call cars on private property need to be registered I dont believe that for a second.

[disco_monkey79]

On 08/06/2023 at 02:16, Rally Pack 2000 said:

 after all how many barn finds have been buried all these years without anyone paying a cent for their upkeep? Anyone know what that was about?

A lot of cars that have been off the road for donkey's years pre-date the DVLA computerization. I bought a Capri that had been off the road for years, but first I called the DVLA to make sure they wouldn't try and fine me for non-taxation (doesn't make sense to sting the new owner, but you never know with the DVLA). The guy I spoke to said no, and that I should just tax or SORN immediately, as getting me on the log book would then cause it to get added to the computerized records.

I doubt they will bother updating old records of moribund cars - how many of these will have been scrapped without notifying the DVLA (before you had to be a registered dismantler) or will just rust in to the ground in a field somewhere?