Thanks for clarifying that, Mike. I guess the important thing in this case is
that the car in question cannot use its original plate without proof of prior
registration with that number, and the owner doesn't want to re-register the
car with another number if he can avoid it.
Steve
---- mike brooks <hypercubic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Steve,
> It's not quite true that you get a modern number when registering a
> classic car in the UK. I just imported a Texas registered BN2 to the UK. I got
> what Swansea call an "age related number". What this is, is a number with a
> format from around the time that the car was built, but that had not been
> previously issued. Two bonuses I discovered - the first was that I am allowed
> a classic style number plate, not one of the hideous white (front) or yellow
> (rear) reflective ones - the second was free road tax because the car is
> pre-1973. You are correct that it's not possible to resurrect a defunct number
> whithout lots of proof that the car originally carried that number.
> Mike
> Brooks
> '56 BN2
> Scotland
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 03:06:23 -0700
> From: "BJ8
> Healeys" <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Looking for photo of a 3000
> Mk1 (UK)
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> It gets a bit more difficult than that, Alan.B UK listers
> can explain it
> better than I, but several years ago the UK vehicle
> registration folks at
> Swansea made a change in the registration system and
> announced that anyone
> who wanted to maintain their old plates had to do A.,
> B., and C.B Those who
> had cars that were unregistered/taxed at the time and
> who did not do A., B.,
> and C. lost the right to the plates.B Those cars would
> have to be registered
> today with modern reg numbers, not the historical
> ones.B The only way
> Swansea will allow this person to use the plate that is
> original to his car
> would be to prove that the car had been registered with
> the old number.
> Apparently, the old registration records are either not
> available, or the
> authorities are not willing to search for it.
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