coxy123 Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 hi i havebought a tr7. no v5 sheet and the car doesn't have a vin plate.How d i go about registering it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyS Posted April 26, 2019 Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 On later cars there should be a VIN number stamped into the righthand wing boot lid gutter. Danny AO NE Scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxy123 Posted April 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2019 thanks for replying. Its a 1977 model.cant see anything there and i dont think they gave a chassis no. either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougbgt6 Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 You could get a heritage certificate which the DVLA will accept as proof. £43 unfortunately! https://britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive/heritage-certificates Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerH Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 24 minutes ago, dougbgt6 said: You could get a heritage certificate which the DVLA will accept as proof. £43 unfortunately! https://britishmotormuseum.co.uk/archive/heritage-certificates Doug without the numbers how will Heritage find the info !!! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 there are documents the club can provide but you need to have the car checked by a club official to verify at best that what you have is correct this can regain a lost car registration or V5 i guess you have the registration does it have any mot or tax history eg.......https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history i have no idea if gaydon are prepared can search by reg. as that makes clones easy they require Thank you for choosing to buy a Heritage Certificate. In order for us to complete your order you will need to provide us with the following information: Marque and Model of your vehicle Car Number/Chassis Number/VIN Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunW Posted April 27, 2019 Report Share Posted April 27, 2019 I've been following this thread.... So you bought a car with no numbers and no paperwork? Aren't you worried that when you go though the authorities to register it, it'll come up stolen or written off? It must have been cheap to take that gamble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 i echo that , big gamble ..........this could be a nightmare Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danster1892 Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 On 27/04/2019 at 09:08, RogerH said: without the numbers how will Heritage find the info !!! Roger they found the commission number for me by engine number body number, and supplied photos. it took them longer but they found the commission number (this was a GT6 don't know if a TR7 is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinR Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 Coxy, Do you know the registration number ? without the registration number it’s almost impossible to do anything. If you find out the Commission/VIN and don’t have the registration number you are still stuck. The DVLA and the Police won’t tell you the Registration Number if you have the VIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6M Posted April 28, 2019 Report Share Posted April 28, 2019 key numbers engine number gb number axle number, thee,s got me a reg for the 1st spitty i had, which had no records,or number plate all lost. as it wer all in bits, in diff places over 3 towns but they managed t trace its reg, where it wer sold at originally, an gev me me reg back. all I could tell,m was it wer a H plate an a damson colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinR Posted April 29, 2019 Report Share Posted April 29, 2019 11 hours ago, GT6M said: key numbers engine number gb number axle number, thee,s got me a reg for the 1st spitty i had, which had no records,or number plate all lost. as it wer all in bits, in diff places over 3 towns but they managed t trace its reg, where it wer sold at originally, an gev me me reg back. all I could tell,m was it wer a H plate an a damson colour Marcus, Was that BMIHT or the Police or the DVLA ? Even though both the Police and the DVLA have the ability to look up a VIN/Commission number and tell you what the registration number is, its illegal for them to actually do it without proper cause, and simply tracing a car where the registration number is unknown is not proper cause. If for example, the Police themselves came across the remains of a car with no registration plates, and believed that it was stolen, or involved in a crime, then they could use the VIN/Commission number to trace the registration to find out who owned it to go and see them. In the old days, a friendly Copper would have a quick peek on the computer to look it up for you, but these days there are too many audit checks in place and they would be found out and sacked if they tried that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT6M Posted April 29, 2019 Report Share Posted April 29, 2019 Ello Kevin, BMHIT, cost me all of 13£ all them years ago what kem back was just aboot every thing I could want on a sort of classy bit of a folder / poster thingy, it wer blue ish aroond edges, { cant think what they called at moment, } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinR Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 Marcus, you were very lucky. BMIHT can trace a lot of stuff from the engine number on most cars, and from the other numbers on the older cars. What they cant normally do is to tell you the registration number as that wasn't allocated until the car was sold by the dealership and that data was never fed back to the factory records. Assuming that the engine in the car is the original engine, BMIHT can probably trace the build record from the engine number - if its not the original engine then you will get a certificate for the build record of the car in which the engine was originally delivered ! Once you have the certificate, it will normally tell you the dealership that the car was sent to. Assuming that the dealership is still in business you could approach them and ask them to go through their registration records for the time - you might hit lucky. If they are out of business, then that's probably the end of the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coxy123 Posted April 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 Checked the cars registration on dvla checker website before buying it. All came back clean. Spoke to dvla, they gave me the impression it wasn't a big deal and to send form off . Time will tell. I'll keep you posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonMember Posted April 30, 2019 Report Share Posted April 30, 2019 If you have the registration number, and if the make and model agrees with DVLA's records for that number, they're usually fairly relaxed about lost V5s. They will write to the last recorded keeper at their last recorded address, to confirm that it's a genuine sale. However, if they don't get a reply they seem to assume it is. When I sent off the "lost V5" form for my Spitfire, which I'd acquired from my brother, the last address they had for it was two houses ago for him, so they couldn't contact him. I got the new V5 in about a month. They don't seem to care much about other details. I've told them at least twice about the engine change but the V5 keeps coming back with the original number! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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