Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

22,069 · March 23, 2022

A chap shared this photo of his parents, Roger and Mabel, on antisocial media. I don't know what Roger had just promised Mabel, but she's clearly keen. No trace of the Series 1 Lambretta online.

6,931 · March 23, 2022

What is the story to it appearing in that film?

10,176 · March 23, 2022

41,120 · March 24, 2022

16 hours ago, Mr Pastry said:

LJH 702 is the one and only Lotus Mk2.

Does this mean it still exists?

2,570 · March 24, 2022

7 minutes ago, martc said:

Does this mean it still exists?

Quite possibly, at least I hope so

19,400 · March 24, 2022

3 hours ago, martc said:

Does this mean it still exists?

it means in this case the vehicle was computerised and last had a V5c issued in 2000, but it was never put into a road going taxation class, whenever it was computerised, it was stuck in the "NOT LICENSED" taxation class, because due to how the DVLA computer system works/worked, when a vehicle was being transferred from a Buff logbook to a V5, it had to go into a taxation class and be taxed,

but what if you have a vehicle in bits in your garage, and your nowhere near ready to actually tax the thing, but its 1983 and they are closing the buff logbook to V5c scheme and you want to get yourself a V5, for when the vehicle does go back on the road, so they created this "free parking" not taxed for on road use taxation class, internally the vehicle is taxed and in a tax class to satisfy the computer, but externally it simply says "not taxed for on road use"

it is no indication that a vehicle is or is not still around sadly, it just means that it at least survived long enough to be computerised, but has been off the road since then or even before then (and vehicles can be marked scrapped in this state, and you wont have any way of telling from just the DVLA's 1st party tool, which is a shame as back in the day you could, as you could see the "vehicle status" for these not taxed for on road use vehicles, go in and out of "taxed, Tax due, Taxed" but the ones marked scrapped where generally "not taxed")

googling about shows it to still be about however I think

https://media.lotuscars.com/en/heritage-road-cars/lotus-mark-2.html

19,400 · March 24, 2022

18 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said:

It is indeed still around. In fact I know the current owner slightly and have actually worked on it! I do wonder whether it was originally registered as a Lotus, or whether the number came from the Austin 7 it was based on.

LJHxxx was a Hertfordshire series issued starting September 1949, so im guessing it was registered anew when built as a Lotus

(either that or the Austin 7 it was based on, had some serious late registration madness going on LOL)