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tax exempt status
NiteMare:
--- Quote from: cooper956 on June 01, 2010, 09:59:51 ---my 2a has a jap engine and a s3 gearbox i know i lose a point for the engine but what about the box?
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the box should be fine as it's a "like for like" replacement and would probably have been fitted by an agent if it had gone in for major gearbox troubles rather than the old one rebuilt
fuzzy:
--- Quote from: trecfive on February 04, 2010, 21:11:26 ---The basis of Tax Exemption is that the vehicle must be registered on or before 1973 or proof of it being built.Chassis ,engine and any other details are irrelevant but someone else will be along soon that will be able to dot all the I's and cross the T's
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Year of registration is irrelevant, It's build date that matters, as long as you can prove it was built 1972 or earlier it is tax exempt.
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: brixworth-alan on February 08, 2010, 18:36:55 ---I'll defer to bigger brains than mine but I was under the impression that the 'points' system only applied to modifications or non-standard parts (eg: coils for leafs, 200tdi engine instead of 2.25 lump, different body etc), I didn't think a 'like-for-like' replacement (even if it was a chassis) counted as new.
Hope not anyway! I'm buying a new chassis this year :)
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No, it's about the identity of the original car, otherwise you could buy a new chassis and put lots of second hand or recon bits on it and keep that registration, then I could buy the axles, steering, gearbox form you and argue that I had the original car. You have to keep more than half of the original car.
In the SEOC we had/have a problem (I stayed out of it) with an ex-sutton car that had been re-shelled/sold/expeorted/imported (portugal) etc and ran with several teams over the years. 2 guys both think they won a highly collectable ex-Sutton works Escort and are trying to get the registration back. As the club is DVLA approved we were asked to verify which car was the "original".
Now I think that when replacing a chassis you have to prove you have destroyed the original, though that might be for "reshells" following an accident :-k
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