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I've been through his exact process back in 2014 when DVLA were actively enforcing this legislation (which was new at the time)…
…One final word of advice. If the car is still registered as PLG, get it swapped to historic at your local PO FIRST, then send it to DVLA for the engine swap. It's my experience that giving DVLA more than a single task at once just confuses them and they are more than likely to "lose" your application or just refuse it because they CAN! So don't give them the chance!
Steve
To be honest Steve, you were the exact person I wanted to respond to this as I thought you’d know all about it.
After looking through all the DVLA stuff, I can’t get the vehicle changes to “historic” status for the tax exemption because of the engine swap so I don’t have to do that. What I do need to do is send off both the V5 and another form. As my new engine is twice the size, it changes the tax class it’s in so I need to send off either a V10 if I tax the car before MOT or a V70 if I do it after. Both the V10 and V70 are to change the tax class to the larger engine. The cut off is 1550cc so going from 1493cc to 2968cc definitely needs that.
As for evidence, I called the DVLA and they said that the wording I put on the original post was absolutely fine and didn’t need anything else. I know I could probably get away with going to “historic” and then the swap but I don’t want any issues with the law etc.
But thank you all for your help and experience. Hopefully this post will help other people out as well.
As Clive says above, swapping out the motor, no matter how big the increase in capacity, does not affect the car's entitlement to Historic status, that is, unless the transplant and other mods have forced you down the BIVA and Q plate route. (ie it contravenes the 8 point rule) Which is another can of worms altogether.
I had exactly the same reasons for wanting to get it right for my car back in 2014, at that time it was still liable for VED, being registered in 74 which would have meant a change in tax group from under 1500cc to over 1500cc (in fact, 1300 to 2000cc)and a price differential to go with it. Which brought me (I suspected) into tax fraud territory that I didn't fancy at all! However the car is now historic and VED free and the difference is moot. Such is also the case with your car, it's historic so the Tax is free however big the engine is.
Since the last Dolomite was built circa Nov 1980, that last car and all preceding it became elegibile for historic status on or before April 1st 2021. So the car is, without shadow of doubt, elegible for historic status. As it stands at the moment, the car is still registered PLG and the VED rates still apply. But DVLA will NEVER tell you it's entitled to historic status (it's one of their funny little quirks) So it is entirely down to YOU to claim your exemption from VED and I repeat, DO THIS FIRST at the PO and worry about the legalities of the engine swap later.
Steve