MK5 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 this car was at the Ace today... now i don't know a great deal about Escorts but isn't B reg a bit late for one?
Jay_harrier Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 That would make it an '85, maybe it was sat unregistered for ages
RETRO_AL Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 cant be private because is a newer reg,mst have been registered later
Guest pistonbroke Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 I've seen that happen before when dealers have cars sitting around for ages unregistered. Friend of mine bought a 'brand new' nissan maxima a few years back, found out later it was already 5 years old. Took them to court and a nice big payout from them. That escort was probably a display model that sat around for a few years after the mk3 came out. There was an unregistered mk 5 cortina on ebay a couple of years back. It had been sat in a showroom all its life. Think it ended up in a museum.
MK5 Posted March 17, 2007 Author Report Posted March 17, 2007 MK5 sold for about £10k and went to a private owner in Scotland... i guessed it was just late registered...
Chris! Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 MK5 sold for about £10k and went to a private owner in Scotland... i guessed it was just late registered... £8k
James HPE Motorsport Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 But wouldnt it have had more digits than that if it was just a late registered car??? I thought with certain private plates you could put on any vehicle? maybe im wrong mind you I did like the plate on that orange mk1 that turned up at about 2!!! nuff sed
JAY PS Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 Its deffo private plate but ,more likely car has been imported from outside EU Or it could have been exported and re-imprted by say an army guy and then it would have been re registered with year it was imported ,back in 85 my dad bought an X reg 3.0GL Mk1 Granada RHD but used by RAF Serviceman which was imported 81 Rules have changed now and cars get age related plates
Jay_harrier Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 Rules are if it was late registered in 1985 with B123 ABC then you can put any age dated plate that would make the car older but not newer, so he could have bought this plate & transfered it. Or put any non date related on it
sab6024 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 I know a Bronze 4 door Mk1 Escort on a V plate. It does Car Trials and was at Classic Ford Show last year. My mate Paul won the Autotest in it there. As far as I know it was imported from Malta and registered here on a V plate, so the same sort of thing could have happened in this case.
oldskool4me Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 must of been sat around for a long time in a skowroom etc. i know of a s2 rst that is registered on a s plate
sab6024 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 Just found a photo of the MK1 Escy. It's NOT four wheel drive either.
bortaf Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 Could be late reg'd ? there was 7 cortys red'd in 87 and theres a few M reg sierras about Imports are a minefeild sometimes if the origional docs where missing they got a rough year designated reg, theres a Mk1 cortina on the dvla lsit i have listed as new in 2002
James HPE Motorsport Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 can see every possibility that this car could have been sat around in a show room or wherever and could quite easily have had an 07 plate put on it, i.e. they didnt make mk2's in 1981 yet my car was originally on a W plate. However surely if it was a late registered car then it would have had a plate, say like B736 MOV instead of B7 MOV. Never seen a car registered with 5 digits instead of 7!
James HPE Motorsport Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 Rules are if it was late registered in 1985 with B123 ABC then you can put any age dated plate that would make the car older but not newer, so he could have bought this plate & transfered it. Or put any non date related on it Now that makes sense, if it was registered as a B or even later than that then it is eligible to have any plate up to that registered plate! So the chances are that it is a personal plate!
Jay_harrier Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 That's what I figured, the rules can get weird about moving plates about, I can transfer a plate onto my bike from a car but once it's on the bike it can never be on anything else except a bike. Unless the DVLA have changed the rules again!.
Mr.Sumo Posted March 17, 2007 Report Posted March 17, 2007 DVLA website reports no vehicle found I"d be more worried that it doesn"t exist...^^^^^
BlueMerlin Posted March 18, 2007 Report Posted March 18, 2007 The norwich union car insurance lookup by number plate doesn't find it either.
JAY PS Posted March 19, 2007 Report Posted March 19, 2007 Found a picture on last months ace meet with different reg Someone is playing games !!!!!
MK5 Posted March 20, 2007 Author Report Posted March 20, 2007 thats naughty, unless he stuck the plate on when he got there...
105Nick Posted March 20, 2007 Report Posted March 20, 2007 I keep looking at the private plates available and thinking; black bonnet, cibies, square headlights, twin cam and XOO plate. cost about £1000, think of better things than that
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