can anyone give me some advice, i currently own a marina based marlin roadster kit car on a Q plate, i have found on ebay a pre 1974 morris marina that i have purchased and wish to transfer the number to my kitcar to make it tax exempt. I havent a clue how to go about this ???

please can anyone advise, it would be much appreciated.

thanks

Q plated cars can't have another plate transferred onto them.

It has nothing to do with the number plate. If you put a 1954 (for instance) registration on a new car it would not make it a historic vehicle. It is all to do with the year the car was made. Or in this case first registered.
plus I think you cannot transfer onto or off q plate? not so sure on that one.

Wear your Q plate with pride. Q is for quality.

P.s. welcome to the forum.

Easy - just post both log books and a covering letter to the DVLA , explaining what it is you want to do - they will be just dying to help you..............

OP! LOL! You've got to be joking right?

By losing the marina plate and officially scrapping your F27.

As stated, Q plate forever
Tax exempt is on when car built / first registered not the plate you put on it

It's the main drawback with Q plates, you can't even replace it with a personal plate.

Hope you didn't spend too much on the marina lol

you could build a brand new marlin using the marina as a donor car - go through the IVA test and register it legally on an 'age related' plate (i.e. one of the same age as the marina, but not the same reg number as the marina)


but even that that would still not get you a tax exempt car !
after all that work your new V5 would say date of first registration = 2014 and that's the bit that counts


the only way to have a tax exempt car is to have built it before 1974 - the number plate on the thing is irrelevant when it comes to tax



so if you want a tax exempt car you've got one choice - drive the marina


[Edited on 29/5/2014 by mcerd1]

Easy enough, swap the chassis and number plates, then pop in to your nearest local friendly VOSA test station with the car and V5 to get it rubber stamped, Job's a good'un.

Do let us know how you get on, the red tape and bureaucracy can sometimes be a bit of bind.

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Originally posted by mcerd1


so if you want a tax exempt car you've got one choice - drive the marina


[Edited on 29/5/2014 by mcerd1]

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or do what many do and just swap the chassis & number plates and claim it's a rebodied marina, take it for an MOT where the tester knows no better, get your free tax disk...away you go in your tax free car

You should see what capers goes on in the landrover world, dvla what's that???

I've no idea why the dislike of Q plates. And I've no idea what the fascination is with personal plates. It's just the ID of the car. Whether it's a Q or a T, they're only vaugely linked to the year and anyone buying a car like this would know to look for the actual year anyway and not be buying based on the usual shopping-trolley-purchaser methods.