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by justinhenley
Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anyone else had a letter from the DVLA?
Replies: 9
Views: 2418

Anyone else had a letter from the DVLA?

After sitting about for a few weeks Bommel was put through the MOT. The inspector read the number off the chassis plate. The MOT cert thus has the MA5 prefix and the suffix for Adderley park. The V5 just has the chassis number on it. I got a letter from the DVLA saying that I would not be able to ta...
by justinhenley
Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tax exemption for pre 1973 scraped next year??
Replies: 30
Views: 7554

Re: Tax exemption for pre 1973 scraped next year??

Hi guys,I hope this isn't true I did hear from a pretty good source (a Traffic police officer) that when the new tax bands for post 2001 cars come into force,there will be a crack down on cars misrepresented for tax purposes. Four door RangeRovers registered in 1973, coil sprung series two Landrove...
by justinhenley
Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:48 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Thinking of converting a moggie to a diesel ^_^
Replies: 59
Views: 13857

Has anyone looked into the Peugeot 1500cc diesel unit? I had to change the head gasket on one of these and (as I am want to do) was musing on the possibilities of a minor transplant. If I'm right then there is a possibility that the Engine could have an adapter plate machined to fit between the Peug...
by justinhenley
Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Carry a baby safely in the back of a morris 1000
Replies: 37
Views: 9463

Hi Justinhenley - Thanks so much for your reply - even though I've since asked a *third* shop (I've now been to Mothercare, Eddershaws and Halford's) and they also seemed to be of the opinion that the car would be unsuita Hi Again Kim, I think the reason that these shops will tell you that it's eit...
by justinhenley
Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Carry a baby safely in the back of a morris 1000
Replies: 37
Views: 9463

This is oddly a subject that I know a little bit about! Four Children and four minors later :) The first and most important thing to remember is that by the time the car seat mountings come into play the child is an orphan anyway. Our first Minor (Mirium the ex police car), I fitted inertia reel sea...