DVLA 'first registration date'

[marina1300coupe]

Can anyone explain the following please?

Somewhere I recently saw a photograph of a Mark1 estate - EAW 790L -
looking at the DVLA database:-

http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/ (VEHICLE ENQUIRY)

this vehicle has a manufacture date of 1972 but a first registration date of '20 03 2000'

Ian

[jiversteve]

Is it possible that the car as originally registered was declared as being scrapped, and then at a later date restored and re-registered with a plate that matched its age. I think strange things happened when SORN was introduced about 10 years ago.

[Martec]

DVLA are a bit restricted by their own regulations,

I bought a complete but honest wreck (no-one else had welded bits into it) of a MkII Jaguar and spent 3 years cutting and welding it and a total of 8 years to put it on the road. I only had the buff logbook and old insurance documents up to 1971. When I applied for a new V5 I stated that there were atleast 5 other owners in its past. I was phoned by DVLA Swansea to say that they had no records of any previous owners therefore would have to put me down as the first owner!!!!!!

I have only had good responses from the DVLA when asking questions and they have explained that a lot of procedures are force upon them (that will put the mocker on it now).

Brian

[jiversteve]

My Marlin was off the road for seven years. During that time I did not decare it SORN as it did not exist in the first instance and I did not get a single reminder to tax the car. This was quite probably pre computerisation of all their records.
So after doing all the relevant work to get it through an MOT the wonderful guys at DVLA Swansea decided that I really ought to pay seven years back tax.
I went to my local DVLA office with all the paperwork for the car including all the old MOT's and a very nice person there decided that in my case the rules were a bit of an ass, the back tax being more than the value of the car, and the fact that I had recieved no reminders, were taken as mitigating factors.
The visit was well worth the time, dealing with a real person and not someone on the end of the phone with a rule book in their hand.

[mk2 golfer]

On the DVLA website, my Marina is listed as :-
date of liability....................01/03/1994
date of first reg...................03/08/1972
year of manufacture.............not available?
vehicle status.....................unlicensed
I hope the buggers don't try to come after me for 16 years of tax

[marina1300coupe]

Thanks for the replies.

Firstly want to clarify my comment about seeing a photograph of EAW 790L - not so, this registration is the one referred to in the post about a stolen Marina in the West Midlands.

Checked on introduction of SORN - 31st January 1998.

Never quite understood the vehicle data we can interrogate on DVLA database. Some vehicles I would expect to show cannot be found and yet my first Marina which I traded-in in 1979 and existed for a further four years is still present with a Date of Liability of 01 12 1983. I am certain that this vehicle has gone the way of so many Marinas and ended up as knives and forks on cafe tables.

Ian