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Speedy_Pete

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I've was thinking about this today, and as the DVLA are a bunch of workshy oiks they are shut on the weekend... so I thought I'd ask here and see if anyone knows the answer:
If you get an old midget and build a Westfield XI replica, the engine is used, and therefore when registered it is classed as the manufacture year of the engine. Likewise, if you put a new engine in an old midget, the Midget keeps the registration year.
So if you got a new Heritage shell, and a new engine, would they consider it to be a brand new car? I've noticed that all the parts are available for Spridgets and I reckon you could build an entire car from new parts for around ÂŁ15k ($30K). I assume that if you did this, you'd need to put the car through SVA, but the thought of a '57' plate Sprite is something to ponder...
 
UK is different than here - if I had a new shell & I was going to put all the stuff off the old car onto it, I'd use the old VIN & nobody in Alabama would be the wiser.

I think in the UK you guys have a points system where it depends on how much of the old car was reused as to whether or not the old VIN could be used.
 
I thought Q plates had been phased out since the introduction of the SVA test?
 
I think I would just move a plate over that I had title too. Who's to know.
 
how do the DVLA/ test stations know ? I hope to take my Sprite (with Lotus Eclat engine/box & Jensen Healey back axle etc for its MOT in the next few months. Quite whats original Sprite I wouldnt like to say
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif with Donn! Here,here!!!!
 
I will see what I can do. I lost broadband for nearly 2 weeks (thank you AOL) so Im catching up on the rest of the world
 
Holy cow. A 907 shovel'd into a Sprite?!?! WOOHOO!!!

We DO want photos!
 
While I am not near to the point of hitting the streets, I might as well ask this question now. I live in Ohio, I have a clear title to my Sprite. I am totally rebuilding it refurbishing whatever original parts as necessary and possible. Will I need to go through a re-certification process when the day comes or just take my title into the DMV and get tags?

Mark
 
When I registered Bugsy my '68 Sprite even though it is a homolgamation of parts I just took title to the DMV. Older than 25 years it doesn't need any other type of inspection and since we did away with smog stuuf around here no sweat to get plates.
 
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