Old Kit Car registration.

[SootySport]

Anyone know when kit car SVA/IVA started?   and did people in the past just drive the Kit on the donor V5 without notifying the DVLA?

[Mark (smokey mow)]

IIRC 1998, and no before that you would still have to notify the DVLA of a change in the vehicles identity, body type and chassi number etc.

[SootySport]

Thanks Mark

[Mark (smokey mow)]

2 minutes ago, SootySport said:

Thanks Mark

No probs  anything you need a hand with feel free to drop me a PM

[Stuart]

In the real old days you could pay a few quid 'car tax' and have your kit classed as a new car with no testing required at all. So my Mini Marcos didn't have a handbrake until just before its first MoT at 3 years old........

[MArtin Aldred (neptune) - Club Treasurer]

1 hour ago, SootySport said:

Anyone know when kit car SVA/IVA started?   and did people in the past just drive the Kit on the donor V5 without notifying the DVLA?

My car was registered in 1996 and I have SVA paperwork for it.

[DavidR]

9 hours ago, Stuart said:

In the real old days you could pay a few quid 'car tax' and have your kit classed as a new car with no testing required at all. So my Mini Marcos didn't have a handbrake until just before its first MoT at 3 years old........

 

When I registered my first kit car in 1971 I had to provide all receipts proving the parts for the build were new and then a police inspection to check the chassis and engine numbers, this enabled a new K reg otherwise I would had a Q plate. The police inspection was whatever the policeman wanted to check he said.

[Stuart]

 

27 minutes ago, DavidR said:

 

When I registered my first kit car in 1971 I had to provide all receipts proving the parts for the build were new and then a police inspection to check the chassis and engine numbers, this enabled a new K reg otherwise I would had a Q plate. The police inspection was whatever the policeman wanted to check he said.

 

In 1976/7 I got an S reg using all old mechanicals.  Only thing that was new was the radiator.  No mention of Q reg whatsoever.  Police inspection was just to check that the engine hadn't been nicked I think.   Edited to say that I just found out that Q reg wasn't introduced until 1983, so you couldn't have had one in 1971....