Applying for a V5

[buckbuckbuckie]

Help me apply for a V5!

 

The vehicle is badged as Leyland Sherpa 215 Deluxe

 

The reg is RHN 502R and shows up on the MOT History database as Leyland back to February 2006.

 

How Many Left only shows Sherpas as Freight Rover, no Leyland Sherpas or British Leyland Sherpas.  On the V5 application should I go for Freight Rover or Leyland?

 

I found a small plate in the driver's footwell that reads:

 

Commission No

 

CV 306

 

019208

 

Would anyone agree with me that 019208 would be the VIN, chassis or frame number?

 

Does anyone know that the VIN plate is elsewhere on a '77 Sherpa?

 

It is currently an Ambulance and the tax disc in the window shows NIL tax due to being an ambulance.  It was first used March 1977 so doesn't meet the January 1977 cut off to apply for historic vehicle tax.  Do I go boring and put it to Private/Light Goods or chance trying to leave it as an Ambulance for another year?

 

Thanks for any help guys.

 

[dollywobbler]

Freight-Rover didn't exist until 1981, so Leyland is probably the best bet.

[dean36014]

Might be worth finding out the build date as didn't the historic tax get based on that once. It might have sat round at a converters waiting to be fitted out as an ambulance and just qualify.

[trigger]

It was probably built in 1976 so will be tax exempt, have you tried to see if Gaydon have any records for it?

[trigger]

This is your chassis number by the way.

 

[mk2_craig]

It is possibly down as Missing in the model name field on the database, or has some generic descriptor like Ambulance.

[trigger]

It's online as being a LEYLAND AM. I'm guessing AM stands for ambulance.

[mk2_craig]

Maybe the stuff in the footwell is to do with the bodybuilder, Wadham Stringer or whoever else was constructing these things 40 years ago?

[andy18s]

Don't want to piss on your parade but are you applying for it as the legal owner?

[buckbuckbuckie]

Thank you everyone.  I am feeling much more confident getting this V5 now.

 

I've had this Sherpa sat in the garage for a good few months doing nothing.

 

My eldest who is 7 loves going to all the car shows and always wants to show his T reg Laguna that sits at the garage but I've never let him!  Getting the Sherpa on the road will give us something worthwhile to show and hopefully stop him pestering me to take the Laguna!

[mercrocker]

Help me apply for a V5!

 

The vehicle is badged as Leyland Sherpa 215 Deluxe

 

 

 

 

  Do I go boring and put it to Private/Light Goods or chance trying to leave it as an Ambulance for another year?

 

 

 

Might affect VED exemption if it stays as an Ambulance?

[Pillock]

You'd have to look at the rules of what constitutes an ambulance, otherwise I'm going to put some sticking plasters in the car and get free tax....

 

You can still phone Swansea and ask them questions like this btw, they're surprisingly helpful.

[PiperCub]

It always was if not still is, a vehicles build date that matters, first used/registered date didn't matter. So I'd agree with others, chances are this was built in late 76 so will get free VED. 

 

Recall years ago when in the MGOC, a chap had a June 73 reg'd Midget - he checked the build date at BMIHT and the certificate came back with a build date of December 72 - hence he got free tax! (I tried it with my 73 Midget I owned then - reg'd start of August 73 - was built in June 73 - Arse!). So well worth a go. 

[Junkman]

Don't waste your time applying for a V5. Get yourself a V8.

[buckbuckbuckie]

In the words of Macho King Randy Savage...  OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

[barefoot]

At the risk of a thread hi-jack, my Scirocco shows on the V5 as being an automatic.

It has always been manual, do I just send the V5 back with auto crossed out in crayon or is it more complicated than that now?

[Eddie Honda]

Do they really need to know? They're getting their tax.

[Eddie Honda]

(I had a ERF 50cc moped once. I only got it easily changed to Italjet because there were still local offices and I knew someone who worked in one.)

[Mally]

At the risk of a thread hi-jack, my Scirocco shows on the V5 as being an automatic.

It has always been manual, do I just send the V5 back with auto crossed out in crayon or is it more complicated than that now?

 

Just cut one of the pedals off.

[AlabamaShrimp]

This thread is pointless without pictures. We might have been able to say exactly what it is from a few and been able to perve at it at the same time.

[buckbuckbuckie]

I will reward you all with pictures ASAP!

 

Probably in a few months time... Maybe...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Oh wow I can't wait, maybe I'll sit on the end of my seat until then....

[John F]

Register it as a lawnmower. That'll fuck with their minds.

[Cavcraft]

They do take absolutely for ever to get V5s out if you actually have to apply for one like that. It'll still be worth it though. Just like when you host the pictures this morning!

[DodgeRover]

So has anybody ever had a nasty surprise when applying for a logbook? Visit from the law/ irate owner?

 

The nearest I've had is a letter saying it isn't on the system.

[buckbuckbuckie]

This is the nearest I can get to it just now, sorry!  I hope to have it on the road for a local show in August though

 

 

Bonus picture of my delapidated Scimitar

 

[Felly Magic]

I think he just outsherpa'd Breadvan formerly of this parish

[AlabamaShrimp]

There you go says what make it is with those letters on the front.

[Lankytim]

Looks like an Ambulance to me

[bunglebus]

First Sherpa I've ever seen that I like. They still drive like a horse-drawn carriage with a cement mixer engine attached though.