Ford timelord

[Split_Pin]

Remind me, again, exactly what is it that we are to be MOT'ing in February?

 

A 1968 Ford UNKNOWN? There must be a physical car to put on the ramps??

[mk2_craig]

You would think in this day and age the MoT regulations would have brought in the requirement for a digital photo of each vehicle every time it was tested. 

Although this one is of course exempt on grounds of age, current owner has a few weeks left to transfer the plate off.

[quicksilver]

It's most peculiar that this thing has now been taxed and MOTed for nearly a year yet nobody has ever seen it, and there's been loads of activity with SORN and new V5s but nobody at the DVLA appears to have questioned that. Will be interesting to see if it gets MOTed again this year and how much the mileage has increased.

[Rustybullethole]

4 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

You would think in this day and age the MoT regulations would have brought in the requirement for a digital photo of each vehicle every time it was tested. 

Although this one is of course exempt on grounds of age, current owner has a few weeks left to transfer the plate off.

This is now a thing. Or certainly was as of last night at my favourite mot place. Wasn't a thing last time I went though last night they defo took a pic of the Panda over the pit. 

Would of thought this new addition times well with available tech to get around it for those intent on a no show ticket. Not saying thats the case with the Ford Timelord or that anyone would do such naughtiness of course.

[Lord Sterling]

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

A 1968 Ford UNKNOWN? There must be a physical car to put on the ramps??

Seems to be a thing with imported/non-UK vehicles, and sometimes, UK sold vehicles but from long ago.

It does seem to be a strange thing about WGU 18G going through a test. 

I suspect, it's had a "telephone" MoT given the interest around it. This just gets the tongues wagging again.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Photo is part of MOT now. Still won't stop the professional ringer etc.

[garbaldy]

6 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Photo is part of MOT now. Still won't stop the professional ringer etc.

But who is going to check 100s of thousands of pics daily 🤔 and will they know one old car from another I wonder.  

[Westbay]

12 minutes ago, garbaldy said:

But who is going to check 100s of thousands of pics daily 🤔 and will they know one old car from another I wonder.  

AI ...

[garbaldy]

And we all know how accurate that is 🙄

[sierraman]

There will be no more to that car than a dog eared V5 and some old VIN plates. The car as we know it will have been long gone decades ago. I’d love to be proved wrong but it’s gone IMO.

[Split_Pin]

Someone's gone to the trouble of doing that because:

1) To noise up about twelve middle aged men in an obscure corner of the Internet.

2) Because they want to make or improve an authentic replica.

Which is most likely?

[loserone]

There's somewhere on the dvsa site to tip them off isn't there?

[quicksilver]

I reckon there is a real Galaxie driving around somewhere on WGU 18G plates but it's not either of the original cars. It's probably a newly imported car with no UK reg that has been given WGU's identity to either get around a problem registering it properly or more likely convince people it's the real Timelord.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Or it could be the real one that's time travelled.

[Lord Sterling]

14 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Someone's gone to the trouble of doing that because:

1) To noise up about twelve middle aged men in an obscure corner of the Internet.

2) Because they want to make or improve an authentic replica.

Which is most likely?

I'd say 1).  There is a blog on the Internet somewhere that shadows this conversation (I believe by the OP or a member on here at least) which either Cauty/Drummond may have come across and have decided to "revive" WGU 18G. It's their kind of MO.

I don't think the car exists any longer, just an old V5, maybe some VIN plates (highly doubtful) a phone number to a dodgy MoT place and playful mind.

There is a replica of the Ford Timelord WGU 18'E' that had white paint brushed all over it by Drummond and Cauty.

Whether this or any other replica motor has anything to do with 18G going through the "MoT" is another question. 

[mk2_craig]

9 hours ago, quicksilver said:

I reckon there is a real Galaxie driving around somewhere on WGU 18G plates but it's not either of the original cars. It's probably a newly imported car with no UK reg that has been given WGU's identity to either get around a problem registering it properly or more likely convince people it's the real Timelord.

Nah I don’t buy that, you can’t drive a mile in anything old or interesting these days without someone papping it and sharing the photo all over social media. At an absolute stretch someone might have discreetly transported a Galaxie in the back of a box van to a quiet MoT station so as to keep it hidden from the world, but that seems a lot less likely than something dodgy going on instead. 

Happy to be proven wrong though, if Mr Cauty was minded to set the record straight.