DVLA can prosecute if they deem the vehicle to be capable of being restored and it has no tax.. this is extremely rare, but it depends if you catch the eye of an enforcement officer on a bad day. If it's not worthy of being restored, then it's probably not fit to be towed either. Some of the one's I've towed weren't taxed, but then again they were written down in the Local MOT man's book to have an MOT...
You can't be prosecuted for A-Framing a car with no MOT if it is within the trailer regs. However if whatever you tow is not fit for towing (e.g. bald tyres, jagged bodywork, doesn't meet the lighting regs) this is an offence, regardless of whether you tow a car, a trailer or an aeroplane... I got a fog light for my A-frame just to be on the safe side, and one day I might fit it.
A-Frames / towing dolly and towing law
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Re: A-Frames / towing dolly and towing law
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Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block