Late registration madness

[quicksilver]

Is an X-reg Plah late reg madness? Not as obviously bizarre as that D-reg one currently on ebay but it still looks wrong.

[trigger]

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The mythical X-reg Dolomite. I had heard a few of these existed but never seen one. This was registered in August 1981, a whole year after production ended!

There was a X reg Sprint near me once and even better a Y plate one still exists.

 

[quicksilver]

There was a X reg Sprint near me once and even better a Y plate one still exists.

 

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That Y-reg orange one is just like the one I had except mine was a W-reg. Both have Oxford WL registrations so I wonder if that's another from Hartwells' unsold stock.

[155V6]

I've just seen this one on the Derelict London website

 

[Pillock]

An LHD Taurus. Possibly a DVLA cockup rather than a really late reg?

 

That said, didn't some BBC Radio stations keep Cortina Estates lying around unregistered as they had done all the hard work making the conversion kits?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Yes a hand full of them.

[Eddie Honda]

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057803009

 

Y-reg Westminster.

[Brodders]

Check this out. You would have to have been utterly insane to buy one of these in 2008.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2008-PEUGEOT-607-AUTOMATIC-EXECUTIVE-77-000-MILES-LOVELY-CAR-VERY-RARE-MODEL/182916281629?hash=item2a96a8f51d:g:uzoAAOSwmudaFE4R

 

 

 

[Hendry]

Check this out. You would have to have been utterly insane to buy one of these in 2008.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2008-PEUGEOT-607-AUTOMATIC-EXECUTIVE-77-000-MILES-LOVELY-CAR-VERY-RARE-MODEL/182916281629?hash=item2a96a8f51d:g:uzoAAOSwmudaFE4R

 

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One of the last good looking Peugeot’s ever made. I could be wrong but KX registration suggests it was registered new by Peugeot themselves, used to see a few Peugeot’s with KM, KX, KJ, etc plates with ‘Peugeot Motor Company’ branded number plates.

[Craig the Princess]

 

Spotted this morning near Greenwich. Left hand drive, presumably an 80s import from the US?

[Hendry]

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Spotted this morning near Greenwich. Left hand drive, presumably an 80s import from the US?

 

I know its modern but that Fiat 500 in the background is interesting for the fact the SW12 registration indicates it came new from Aberdeen so its ended up in totally the opposite end of the UK from where it started, unless Greenwich has an SW12 postcode and its a shit private plate. 

[mk2_craig]

Why is a five year old Aberdeen-registered Fiat 500 that has moved to (or is visiting) London particularly remarkable?

[Ghosty]

All that means is t was probably sold through Arnold Shark.

[Lord Sterling]

I know its modern but that Fiat 500 in the background is interesting for the fact the SW12 registration indicates it came new from Aberdeen so its ended up in totally the opposite end of the UK from where it started, unless Greenwich has an SW12 postcode and its a shit private plate.

 

Most likely it was registered new in Aberdeen, leased to someone, when lease finished it probably went to the former Fiat/Alfa storage centre Long Bennington for storage/refurb before being allocted to a dealer in the South and ending up in London. Many of these modern cars usually end up miles from thier place of registration.

 

Regarding the more interesting Spitfire, this comes back from cazana.com/uk/;

 

This 1988 TRIUMPH SPITFIRE 1500 on numberplate E947 WCL was first registered on Saturday 1st of April 2017 near Norwich. At an estimated 20,629 miles, this vehicle has done a higher than average number of miles for its age.

 

So its a recent import, no wonder it looks so clean. I wonder how they deemed it to be a 1988 car then?

[quicksilver]

 

Most likely it was registered new in Aberdeen, leased to someone, when lease finished it probably went to the former Fiat/Alfa storage centre Long Bennington for storage/refurb before being allocted to a dealer in the South and ending up in London. Many of these modern cars usually end up miles from thier place of registration.

 

Regarding the more interesting Spitfire, this comes back from cazana.com/uk/;

 

This 1988 TRIUMPH SPITFIRE 1500 on numberplate E947 WCL was first registered on Saturday 1st of April 2017 near Norwich. At an estimated 20,629 miles, this vehicle has done a higher than average number of miles for its age.

 

So its a recent import, no wonder it looks so clean. I wonder how they deemed it to be a 1988 car then?

That one really is an oddity and it doesn't take a genius to work out that a 1988 Triumph is very obviously wrong. Maybe it's a 1980 car but someone misread the 0 as another 8.

[mk2_craig]

One way this can occur is if the car has been in a couple of jurisdictions where the "date previously registered" is recorded, rather than the "date first ever registered". Sometimes seen on stuff that has done a stint in both Channel Islands, for example.

[fordcortina1977]

I remember back in 1993/94 seeing an L reg Ford Sierra, with reg L*** COO  and it was a silver Azura model, I've seen a few J reg mk4 Escort cars/vans and a J reg mk2 Orion (mk4 Escort shape). A few years ago there was a D Reg mk2 black Granada Ghia on ebay, there was a T reg mk1 Granada on ebay about 5 years ago an ex cop 3.0 S model.

[quicksilver]

1987/88 E-reg Mk1 Golf. Huh? Doesn't look like one of those South African CitiGolfs and it's been UK registered (almost?) from new. Weirdly, Cazana says it was registered in October 88 with a D-plate and changed a month later to an E - shouldn't October 88 be an F if it was new then? Sadly its suspension seems to have collapsed.

 

[Tamworthbay]

That one really is an oddity and it doesn't take a genius to work out that a 1988 Triumph is very obviously wrong. Maybe it's a 1980 car but someone misread the 0 as another 8.

The DVLA are useless I have a motorbike that was registered in 1954, I have the buff log book and loads of history. The V5 says it was made in 1945, despite me providing proof the company didn’t even exist prior to 1948 and copies of all my own documents they won’t change it unless I send them the original buff log book. And the chances of that being lost and them cocking it up would be?

[quicksilver]

The DVLA are useless I have a motorbike that was registered in 1954, I have the buff log book and loads of history. The V5 says it was made in 1945, despite me providing proof the company didn’t even exist prior to 1948 and copies of all my own documents they won’t change it unless I send them the original buff log book. And the chances of that being lost and them cocking it up would be?

Indeed they are. There's an MOT exempt '1959' Maxi doing the rounds on eBay. Seller claims it's a '69 model but it actually seems to be a late 70s rod-changer. Whatever it is, it definitely wasn't made in 1959 but the DVLA goons have granted it a premature MOT exemption based on their crappy data.

[sierraman]

There used to be a L plate Sierra at the end of our road, the circumstances as to how it ended up on that plate I don't know. There was a few late Sapphires fitted with 1.6 Pinto's and 2.3 diesels presumably to use up stocks.

[twosmoke300]

We had a 2.3d sapphire

[sierraman]

About 1990 they should have changed to the 1.8TD, I'm guessing they had a glut of the old Indenor 2.3 diesels left.

[Hertz]

I remember back in 1993/94 seeing an L reg Ford Sierra, with reg L*** COO  and it was a silver Azura model, I've seen a few J reg mk4 Escort cars/vans and a J reg mk2 Orion (mk4 Escort shape). A few years ago there was a D Reg mk2 black Granada Ghia on ebay, there was a T reg mk1 Granada on ebay about 5 years ago an ex cop 3.0 S model.

 

Think there were quite a few L reg Sierra's. I remember a guy who used to trade cars to us rocked up in a wine red L reg Sapphire Cosworth in about 94. He bought them new from Ford and then sold them on again after 2 or 3 months. Did it a lot with Escort Cosworths too. He said it was free motoring and sometimes made a few on them. I bet he wished he kept a couple in hindsight.

 

Edit - A quick google reveals an M plate one!

 

[twosmoke300]

Our 2.3d saph was an f reg

[lisbon_road]

Just saw this 51 plate MK3 Astra. It is a lhd Opel.

[Jim Bergerac]

Could be genuine being an Opel, some markets (like Poland, I think?) continued to receive the Astra F as a cheaper alternative for some time after the G was offered.

[Hendry]

Yeah called an Astra Classic or something I seem to remember from Vauxhalls EPC when looking up part numbers. 

[Pillock]

Yup. ECAT says it's an Astra Classic, made 19/9/2001 in Gliwice (PL) for the Polish market.

[Datsuncog]

Spotted on New Year's Eve (and sadly in a hurry, so no better shot available) - Birthday Boy Rover (800) Sterling 2-dr, first used 31 December 1999 according to DVLA.

 

 

 

Late reg madness, or were a fair few of these registered on a V-plate?

 

Rare old beast in N. Ireland anyway. Looked well cared for, at any rate.