John
I'll provide the first answer...
Don't worry about the commission plate, not required
for pre-1980 vehicles.
I'll let others provide further justification to your
case.
Basically what you have is the 'spirit' of your
original spitfire sitting outside.
Colin
--- johnzissler@aol.com wrote: > Hi all,
> I have been reading this post and I might
> have missed something here
> (It could have been mentioned in another posting )
> but here goes.
> If a vehicle, (and we will stick to lets say
> Spitfire for simplicity,
> apologies to the Herald owners) should be in a
> collision and the chassis is twisted
> therefore rendering it a write off, then its a
> relatively simple job of getting
> another chassis and bolting the tub on that.
> Agreed................?
> Ok now lets say i want to get another tub cos this
> one I have is rusted
> through.......
> Now my engine has blown and I replace it with
> another.......................
> The wheel rims are buckled
> so..............................
> Oh heck now the speedo has gawn and
> broke.....................
> Whats that about a hole in my petrol
> tank.................................
> You see my point. The whole car could have been
> altered. In fact it could be
> a different car altogether.
> As for the commision plate well that
> went years
> ago..........the PO did away with that on the cars
> fifth respray from the original colour in
> 1974.
> About the only thing that is retained is the VR5
> document which has the
> original Engine / Chassis numbers on it but of
> course are now useless and should be
> changed when you replace anything. Which is what i
> intend to do when it is
> time to put it back on the road. But it still gets
> back to my point of this
> anomaly of whether the car is a write off or not.
> You could say I 'wrote' my car
> off when rebuilding it. Should I now inform the DVLA
> about all the changes and
> replacements I have done to it. And if I have
> inadvertantly caused this
> vehicle to be a write off due to my rebuilding it,
> what else do i have to do?
> Thanks
>
>
> Happy Spitting........(John in the UK)
> Spitfire MkII now in its primer stages
> Spitfire MkIII donor car
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