Morris Minor Owners Club

'Started life as 406 XPG, and shows 27000 miles on the speedo. I firmly believe this to be genuine (East Sussex Motors concur this is likely, although clearly cannot be certain) given the state of the car before restoration. I had been 'barn stored' from what I can gather for 25yrs+ and was no longer on the DVLA database when I bought it, and hence it has an age related XXX YYY assigned registration plate'

I have copied this from the For Sale forum- thinking my request for assistance is more appropriately voiced here. Is there much hope of getting the old and original registration recognised by the DVLA? Is there any information I could gather which could help in a similar case?
Regards Andrew

Have you got a local DVLA office? Unlike the bad old days the people they employ now have 'customer facing' training and are approachable, friendly and helpful. When I sorted registration for my car which had been laid up for 20+ years the girl at the counter was quite excited to be dealing with something less mundane for a change.

You would need evidence that the original number was allocated to the car.
Old insurance & MOT certificates, tax discs, old log book etc are the kind of documents DVLA want to see.
Sometimes the county records show the chassis number which is a big help unfortunatley not all are available.
I went though this with a Berkeley T60 and age related was a far easier option in the end so this might be why your car has the same now.
I don't know about the MMOC but often clubs have someone who can assist in regaining original registration numbers from DVLA which would be my first person to contact

Paul Humphries

The MMOC contact is Rob Thomasson rob.thomasson@mmoc.org.uk

If you have some original documents showing the number you need the form V765 which can be downloaded. With help from the club I was able to get the original number reinstated on the lowlight even though it had an age related for 10years. It is a slow process, dont expect it to happen straight away. It also helps to have a heritage certificate, when researching I was told that my reg, OPE had only been issued for about 3months and it tied in with the despatch date as per heritage cert!!

Good luck
Dave

following on from the other thread:
http://www.mmoc.org.uk/index.php?name=P ... ht=#228280

BMIHT is the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (based at Gaydon Warwickshire) who will provide a certificate of the car's production details. There is a fee charged but sometimes it's well worth it - that was the only document I had for my car although it did have also the original 1950's reg plates still on it which were shown in photographs.

Thanks for all these useful and encouraging comments!
Ray, ref your comments in the other strand, did you think there is someone specifically in the club who I could approach for assistance?
I'll keep you posted to how I get on
Andrew

Whoops re my last post, just re-read your comment Mike thank I've just sent an Email to Rob
Thanks Again