As per title really, I have the chance of a nice early Honda CB750 frame, it was bought by its present owner from DK Spares who imported it, presumably as a complete bike from the states.

DK seem a reasonable sized company, and I'm sure the frame will be registered on NOVA (Notification of Vehicle Arrival) and duties paid, but, does anyone know how I can check, and whether there should be some form of certificate with the frame, or if the key for the database is the frame number? I believe NOVA superceeds the C&E 386 process.

Cheers.
Pete.

Not sure about the NOVA thing, but I bought my first bike from DK more than ten years ago. I'd be fairly confident that their paperwork is all good. They must deal with thousands of import bikes and they're not going to risk one being dodgy.

I did the NOVA thing last year to get my Lambretta registered on UK plate. You can go on the website and register then I just filed in the form online and they declared I had no VAT to pay. I printed the form off and at the time the DVLA office in Nottingham was still open so I went there, paid my registration fee and job done.