Wanted A 1970s Saab beauty - what would be a reasonable offer to make? And what's going on with the Reg plates?

[mouseflakes]

as MOT runs out this week and tax next, perhaps £100 at the most amd £90 of that would be for the 'Combi Coupe' spears on the side ventilation grilles 

 

Ah, now I understand the oft-seen ebay phrase 'spears or repairs'. Thanks for that.

[Dick Longbridge]

Current owner bought the car (or at least the registration) in May 2014. Doesn't look like it's some old china who's owned it for years and never plans to part with it. I say make a bid.

[doubleyeller]

Current owner bought the car (or at least the registration) in May 2014. Doesn't look like it's some old china who's owned it for years and never plans to part with it. I say make a bid.

Yeah thanks, I never knew you could find stuff like that out!

[DodgyBastard]

My 99 cost £200, I swapped it for a fucked 900 with Richards mate then sold it onto laser wheels who scrapped it. I've no idea what happened to the 99 afterwards...

[doubleyeller]

My 99 cost £200, I swapped it for a fucked 900 with Richards mate then sold it onto laser wheels who scrapped it. I've no idea what happened to the 99 afterwards...

It's one of them things I guess, old doesn't mean valuable. I put the R20 up on carandclassic just to see if someone would be daft enough to part with £2000 for her, but not a single enquiry!

[Richard]

The VIN starts with 99 and the year, so it'll be 9972 or more likely 9979.

[Doctormop]

Maybe its on a "cherished" number plate and the owner is called John Peter Philiips and he made £144.000  the year he bought the Saab, hence all is above board and legitimate, after all putting a 1972 plate on a 1981 car is perfectly legal is it not; however a 1981 reg on a 1972 car is blatantly some kind of swindle apparently.

Thank heavens better brains than mine work out what is righteous and what is not.

Edited November 20, 2016 by Doctormop

[Justin Case]

Maybe its on a "cherished" number plate and the owner is called John Peter Philiips and he made £144.000  the year he bought the Saab, hence all is above board and legitimate, after all putting a 1972 plate on a 1981 car is perfectly legal is it not;

Yes, but its still a 1981 car. My reg was originally on a 1962 motorbike, but the V5 still says 2007 and PLG. Shame really, I could do with saving £265 a year

[billyboy406v6]

Get that low offer in and get it home !

[purplebargeken]

I had an early 99 three door with the Triumph engine and chrome bumpers, it looked ace.

 

Sadly it went OMGHF a month or so after I sold it.

[Shep Shepherd]

I reckon that the plate is a 'cherished' one. Even if it isn't, the car looks like a fun rolling preservation project

[Richard]

It definitely isn't, because it checks out as a red 1972 automatic saloon. If it was a cherished plate it would check out as what it is.

[carlo]

I bet he's delighted his little pre-RFL scam (if that's what it is), is being poured over and dissected on the net!

[Dave_Q]

I'd be very surprised if DA MAN is reading this though.

 

Much easier to go to OLLI.com and find a few (dozen) "coil converted" tax exempt Landies.

[lisbon_road]

Amazing that people get away with ringing like that.  I'm no Saab expert at all, but that's not '72 at a glance.

[Junkman]

Ex Junkman k00p Devil:

 

 

The eagle eyed among you will already have spotted that it's a '76 on a K plate. It even still had its real VIN tag on the dashboard,

which was different from the VIN in the V5C. According to the V5C, it was a '71 Fleetwood.

 

After I decided to not be a criminal for 250 odd quid a year (my tariff is 1 Million per year behind bars), I requested an age related reg

which took the usual three weeks and 19 quid.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Ex Junkman k00p Devil:

 

 

The eagle eyed among you will already have spotted that it's a '76 on a K plate. It even still had its real VIN tag on the dashboard,

which was different from the VIN in the V5C. According to the V5C, it was a '71 Fleetwood.

 

After I decided to not be a criminal for 250 odd quid a year (my tariff is 1 Million per year behind bars), I requested an age related reg

which took the usual three weeks and 19 quid.

Did they sting you for back payments on the tax?

 

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[Junkman]

Of course not.

[forddeliveryboy]

Amazing that people get away with ringing like that.  I'm no Saab expert at all, but that's not '72 at a glance.

 

There was a certain specialist in the North who would blatantly sell 80s 2cvs re-plated as 60s ones, with a few cosmetic alterations. Two or three years down the line, they were as much recognizable by the rot oozing through the 2k paint - often marking out where the third rear window had been covered up - as their odd looks of part-60s, part-80s car.

 

I heard the authorities had made an inspection of one of these cars after a customer made a complaint, but since the VIN and reg plate numbers matched up they weren't bothered.   

[Dave_Q]

Yep, cases like that would be obvious to people like us, but the doovla don't employ a horde of marque specialists, or even vague enthusiasts.

 

They employ a low ranking civil servant to check that the numbers match, nothing more, nothing less.

[alfetta]

Will be a 1977 model since it has the big side light clusters. Launched first in 1973 as a 3-door, then joined by a 5-door in '76. Made way for the 900 in '79, though the Saloon carried on here until 1984.

[strangeangel]

Yep, cases like that would be obvious to people like us, but the doovla don't employ a horde of marque specialists, or even vague enthusiasts.

 

They employ a low ranking civil servant to check that the numbers match, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Indeed, which is why the importers of all those Vietnamese restored* Vespa 150 Sprints can get away with registering them as learner legal 125s.

[forddeliveryboy]

Here's the advert from early 2014:  http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C473097

 

 

 

32,000 miles recorded, believed genuine but no history. Full stainless exhaust. Headlight wash wipe system works fine. New headlining fitted. Very sound car underneath but paintwork requires attention due to flaking laquer. Top of back seat has been sun damaged. Engine is very smooth and quiet and the gearbox works fine. New fuel pump and fuel pipes. Overhauled brakes with recon calipers and new pads. Replacement starter motor. Now a very rare car.

 

 

The tacked-on rear fogs suggest it is a (UK) '79 model, that's when the legislation applies from. Built in Finland, '77.

[inconsistant]

vague enthusiasts.

 

 

I'd love to be one of those, maybe... not sure.

[doubleyeller]

Well done Forddelivery - that's the car, same reg plates as are engraved on the qarterlights!

[Mally]

Sorted then.

Just swop the plates for something that doesn't need an MOT.

[forddeliveryboy]

If it lives there, have a giggle and print off a couple of fake plates, 

 

 

and place them on your dashboard along with this: 

 

 

Make an offer a day later

[sierraman]

£14.87.

 

I'd knock at his door, strike up convo about it then ask if he's thought of selling it? If he says yes he might come back with either insanely cheap or a blinkered value of it based on what he's spent.

[Timewaster]

The real number is so much more appropriate!

 

Maybe it got swapped because of da yoof dissin ya whack plates innit like bruv annat.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Top detective skills FDB!!! Ha ha