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Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:36 am
by bazyerma
HI,
Maybe a stupid question but can you really sell Number plates, commisioning plates and V5 on eBay?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triumph-1500T ... Sw4shX-Qot
Regards
Barry
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:47 am
by xvivalve
I don't know about the legality of selling them as 'ephemera', they would perhaps make a framed wall decoration in a car themed pub perhaps, but it would certainly be illegal for any new owner to use them to attempt to pass off the identity of another road going car as that one!
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:57 am
by bazyerma
I thought it would be handy if you had an 1980s car and wanted free tax!
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:10 am
by xvivalve
TC production ceased in '76, so nearly all, if not all are already 'tax free'.
At very least, they'd be committing fraud.
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:17 am
by bazyerma
Good Point, just seems suspicious to me!
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:36 pm
by geeksteve
Converting a Dolomite 1500 into a 1500TC would probably not be noticed by most people (outside of the club!)... Very dodgy!
Steve
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:55 pm
by tony g
Its kind of like selling a car but without the rust and badly damaged interior
I bet if that was a MK 1 Lotus Cortina ID it would be snapped up in minutes. Not saying its right or wrong but not much different to a reshell
Tony
Re: Is it legal to sell a V5 and plates?
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:31 pm
by Galileo
Quite illegal, even as ephemera.
Notification of destruction or permanent export of a vehicle
17. Where a vehicle is destroyed or sent permanently out of—
(a)Great Britain; or
(b)Northern Ireland,
the registered keeper shall immediately notify the Secretary of State of the fact and, at the same time, surrender the registration document to him.
Not sure what you do when the secretary of state is a woman though?!