Morris Minor Owners Club

Dear all,
i have recently purchased a morris (austin?) pickup from the wonderful land of ebay and have only got the body number from a plate in the engine bay and only know that it is a H reg. Does anybody know how to relate this to the chassis number? Any information would be extremely helpful as i'm a 16 year old and this is my first time restoring a pickup and im hoping to make a good job of it

PM (private message) poster "POMMReg" Chris will be able to help you. He is collating all chassis/body numbers for reference perhaps future book. Did you get the registration documents with the vehicle?

Yes chris has been in contact, thanks. But no the documents did not come with the vehicle I only know what little I know from looking round the car for a few hours

Buying vehicles minus V5/rf60 docs seems to be legit apparently(?).

What else can you do with such vehicles?

Collect chassis/cab number combinations from other Minor's, which allows
me to assist owners when faced with this type of problem.

If you can get the first 3 digits of the chassis number, makes it a whole lot
easier for DVLA providing the vehicle is/was on their Database.

Therefore, the more numbers I have, the more accurate I can be!

A cab number in the hand is worth 2 golden geese in a bush!

I was saying, what else can you do with a vehicle with no v5, if you can not sell it. As you implied ?

Push comes to shove, DVLA will issue a modern VIN.

If NO registration/chassis nor cab number, DVLA will issue
a VIN and an age related registration.

If you have no documents nor a leg, you will fall over.

Buying without v5 could be looked upon as buy a load of spares----just put together to form a vehicle.

Yes, it happens.

Better than scrapping the vehicle.